Media Flashcards
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Entails the technical and artistic creation and delivery of information
Media
Giving or gaining information by speaking or reading.
Communication
Use of language to transfer information through speaking.
Verbal
Body language, gestures, and facial expressions to carry information to others
Non-verbal
Writing, typing, printing symbols like letters and numbers.
Written
Photographs, art, drawings, sketches, charts, and graphs.
Visual
How is communication affected by Media and Information?
Media reduced the barriers in communication, making it easier for everyone to express their thoughts to the world.
Media is the most understanding to?
Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, Reflect, Act
Set of skills requiring people to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.
Information Literacy
Skill of a person, working independently, to responsibly, appropriately, and effectively use technology tools to access, manage, integrate, create, and communicate information.
Technology (Digital) Literacy
Recognizing that information is needed; understanding why information is needed, what information is required.
Access to Information
5 Components of Information Literacy
Identify, Find, Evaluate, Apply, Acknowledge
FRAME
Find, Retrieve, Analyze, Manipulate, Extend credit
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron.
Pre-Industrial Age
What year was the Pre-Industrial Age?
Before 1700s
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established tool production, and the manufacturing of various products.
Industrial Age
What year was the Industrial Age?
1700s - 1930s
The invention of the transitor ushered this age. People harnessed the power of transitors that led to the transitor radio, circuits, and early computers.
Electronic Age
What year was the Electronic Age?
1930s - 1980s
The Internet paved the way for internet communication and the creation of social network.
Information Age
What year was the Information Age?
1900s - 2000s
One way distribution of information through a media channel. It assumes that one party has a limitless amount of data and can act as the information service provider, while the other one acts as the information services consumer.
Allocution Theory
Used to understand media, such as print or electronic media or productions such as films and plays. It is beneficial for examining and understanding media in which people take on part of an actor.
Character Theory
