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• Printed media


  Form of information dissemination where everything is in print, primarily through materials that direct your attention to the product
• Liwayway is the first four-frame comic strip in the Philippines
• Movable type


  Invented by Johannes Gutenberg that enabled information to become secular
• Television


  Form of information dissemination that relies on digitizing analog information, which allows many people to interact at once
• Radio


  Form of information dissemination where everything is transmitted in the airwaves, primarily through transistor-powered devices
• Nikola Tesla was given credit for the development of electronic transmitters
• Guglielmo Marconi was the American radio operator that first transmitted radio in the country in 1895
• Music


  Form of art that uses sound set in melodic combinations to produce aesthetic and expression of emotions
• Adult contemporary/Easy listening music genre

  • Blend of classics, light opera, and soft rock
• Classical music


  • Works of eminent composers
• Country music genre


  • Exemplified by the prominent rural themes and simple life
• Electronic music genre


  • Incorporates electronic effects and digital instruments
• Rock music genre


  • Encompasses all styles of music, past, present, which include grunge and punk
• Mythologization


  Advertising technique that uses unconscious archetypal motifs to construct a commercial image
• Aestheticization


  Advertising technique that uses bizarre imagery and juxtaposing the subject matter to sell the idea
• Country music icons


  • Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, and the Eagles
• Eclectic Pop icons


  • Adele, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, Madonna, and Michael Jackson
• Folk icons


  • The Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Woody Guthrie, ASIN; and Peter, Paul, and Mary
• Jazz and Blues icons

  • Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, John Lee Hooker, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Wynton Marsalis
• Rhythm and Blues, Funk, and Soul icons


  • Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Tina Turner, Regine Velasquez Waylon, and T-Wayne
• Rock icons


  • Elvis Presley, Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, and Nine Inch Nails
• Un Homme Au Chapeau (Man with a Hat), Une scene de danse Japonaise (Scene from a Japanese Dance), Les Boxers (The Boxers), and La Place de L'Opera (The Opera Place) were the first films shown in the Philippines on January 1, 1897
• Documentary


  Nonfiction film that depicts real-life circumstances with people explaining their thoughts and experiences to a camera or interviewer
• Animated films


  Narrative stories intended for children
• Storyboard


  Set of drawings that depicts the essential portions of the tale
• Before, animations were made by creating drawings for backdrops, décor, and character appearances and temperaments individually. Today, most animated films are created digitally
• Twitter slang


  • FOMO: fear of missing out
  • twabstinence: cutting back on Twitter time
  • twabulous: fabulous tweet
  • ztwitt: to tweet extremely fast
• Virality


  Videos of unscripted comedy, humiliating occurrences, and anything else that is funny
• Characteristics of famous viral videos


  • The length of the title — the shorter, the better
  • The running time — again, the shorter, the better
  • The degree of humor in the video — the more ludicrous or satirical, the better
• Borrowing


  Deliberate usage of foreign words while retaining the foreign word's meaning
• Borrowing examples


  • Watashi (Japanese) is used to substitute the pronoun "I" or "me"
  • Carry (English) is used in the Filipino context of "kaya (capable)"
• Inversion


  Deliberate switching of either the word's entire spelling or syllabic placement
• Inversion example


  • Lain (unpleasant) becomes nial (unpleasant)
• Name puns


  Intentional use of celebrity names, whether local or foreign, as descriptors for the intended words
• Name puns examples


  • Gutom (hungry) becomes Tom Jones (the British singer)
  • Huli (to be caught) becomes Julie Andrews (the English actress)
• Syllabic substitution


  Changing of one (1) syllable to a word to give it a new form unique only to those who know them