lOMoARcPSD|32405148

Media Information Literacy

Media and Information Literacy (STI College)

Scan to open on Studocu

Studocu is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university

Downloaded by Loreal Jane (cruzalanijoy@gmail.com)
 lOMoARcPSD|32405148

MIL communicate with each other and

learn.
Opportunities, challenges, and power of
- High visual evolution
media and Information
Education
Media
- As we know from the recent
- means of communication or
ubiquity of online digital video,
communication tools like
videos have become a compelling
newspaper, magazines, TV, radio,
tool for educational;
and internet that reach of influence
representation. Students use it in
people widely
their projects; teachers and pre-
- communication channels through
service teachers use it to study
which news, entertainment,
pedagogy; and researchers use it
education, data, or promotional
for capturing and examining how
messages, are disseminated. Media
learning happens, as the unfold.
includes every broadcasting and
- Perspectivity frames how learners,
narrowcasting medium such as
teacher, and researchers make
newspaper, magazines, TV, radio,
meaning of events from both
billboards, direct mail, telephone,
individual and multiple points of
fax, and internet.
viewing.
Opportunity - Media increase the student’s
collaboration, improve
- it is a set of situations that makes
participation, content rich resource
possible to do something.
and useful to team projects.
The media and information can function
Social
to strengthen and enrich the connections
between citizen and intermediary - Any website allows social
organization including the following interaction in considered a social
aspects: media sit, including social
networking sites. This site gives
Economic
entertainment and communication
- Media enhances political and have grown recent years.
coordination in the development of - Social media communication is
sound economic policy. about conversations, community
- Media sector development can connecting with the audience and
reduce political risk, increasing building relationships.
stability for higher risk countries. - Freedom of expression,
- Media improves the efficiency of communication, tourism,
the economy by providing more
Political
and better information
- News industry, film production, - New political media are form of
entertainment programs, print, communicating that facilitate the
broadcast, mobile communication, production dissemination, and
internet, advertising, and public exchange of political content on
relation. platform and withing network that
accommodate interaction and
Education
collaboration
- In today’s world of connected - New around the clock, The Impact
learning, the world is getting of polls, Direct interaction with
smaller and through use of Politicians, Demographic and
technology. Targeting
- Learners have been able to
Challenge
integrate a variety of digital media
forms into documents. Multimedia, - It is something new and difficult
hypermedia, new media are the which requires great effort and
terms we have used to describe determination.
this use of visual media in learning.
Illegal Content
Of course, this is not a beginning of
our use of a variety of media to - It is any type of content that could
learn. People have always used be damaging to young people
diverse visual media to including. Sexually explicit content,

Downloaded by Loreal Jane (cruzalanijoy@gmail.com)

 lOMoARcPSD|32405148

Real or simulated violence, Illegal - Media and information give us the

image of child sexual abuse ability to be creative and
productive however it tends to be
Criminal Activity
the main reason why people can be
- Or a crim that involves the internet, easily fooled and relying on what’s
a computer system or computer new. These are among the
technology. The use of computer as following factors;
an instrument to further illegal 1. Threats – seeing violent media
ends. content can make likely that
someone behave in an aggressive
Copyright Infringement
or violent way.
- Is the use of production of 2. Risks – media influencing other
copyright – protected material unhealthy or risky behavior
without the permission of the including smoking, drinking and
copyright holder. Copyright taking drugs. – even with the
infringement means that the right tight security setting your personal
afforded to the copyright holder, information may leak on social
such as the exclusive use of work sites.
for a set period, are being 3. Abuse – addicting on social media
breached by the third party has and effect in our daily
lifestyles, it gives unhealthy
Identity Theft condition on our body. - we
- Identity theft is the crime of tend to use it as drug substance
obtaining the personal or financial that can pleasure our longing for
information or another person for but we ourselves do not even
the sole of assuming that person’s known the true value of effort and
name or identity to make knowledge.
transaction or purchases. 4. Misuse – instead of using it for
good purposes and heartily
Power Media development why there are still
hatred and conflict overflowing in
- Media power means the
social media, blogs, forum, and any
concentration of symbolic power in other world wide web platform.
media institutions, particularly
those of television, radio and the
press (the commonsense definition TEXT INFORMATION and MEDIA
of the media), although the long Text
term-impact of new media on
media power is considered. - Text is a simple and flexible format
of presenting information or
POWER OF MEDIA conveying ideas whether hand-
 Back of the future – social media written, printed or displayed on-
is transforming banking screen
relationships on very significant - text is very powerful as well in
ways, from improving customers disseminating information,
service to allowing user to send providing direction and giving
money to others via online suggestions.
platforms. - Text is available in different sources
 Business Strategy – it’s a new whether is it formal (news articles,
trend that is already spreading to published books, newspapers,
business beyond the newsroom, magazines, advertisements,
whether it be because of digital research works, etc.) or informal
marketing or new customer service (blogs, personal emails, SMS or
channels. text messages, online messenger,
 Health Care & Public Health – social media platforms, etc.)
social media has been responsible Formal text – based materials
for relevant changes in both
personal and community health, - Are created and distributed by
especially by making it easier large established institution (such as
numbers of people to rapidly share publishing companies, news
information. agencies, etc.) and go through a
rigorous process of editing or
Threats, Risks Abuse, and Misuse evaluation and are usually

Downloaded by Loreal Jane (cruzalanijoy@gmail.com)

 lOMoARcPSD|32405148

governed by censorship of the  Charts, tables, and graphs –

state. used to organized large amount
of information into small space.
Informal text – based Material
 Illustrations – help the reader
- Come from personal opinions or understand the information in a
vies on different issues, processes, visual way.
etc.  Caption – used to explain the
illustration.

 Text can be short such as a single

sentence or phrase, or they can be Text types, Formats and Sources
as lengthy as news articles or
Types
investigative reporting. No matter
how brief or lengthy, however, a  Brochures
text is always carefully written with  Magazines
the intent of sending a very  Textbooks
specific message to the target  Instruction manuals
audience  Newspaper articles
 In our exposure to text media and  Encyclopedia
information, we can either be a
Formats
consumer of a producer of content.
 Documentary
As a Consumer, these are the questions
 News article
that you need to ask with regards to the
 Interviews
content of text media and information;
 Advertisements
 Who or what institution is sending  Images
this message?
Sources
 What techniques are used to
attract and hold attention?  Book
 What is the language used by the  Magazines
writer?  News papers
 What views are represented? Are  Articles
they balanced?
 How might the message be
interpreted in different ways?
 What is omitted, slurred or added
in the message?
As a Producer of text media and Visual text
information, we need to review the media - Visual text is text in which meaning
and information design framework: is shaped and communicated by
 Target audience images rather that words.
 Author or sender - Visual text ranges from a
 Key content photograph or illustration in a print
 Purpose magazine to the visual components
 Form/style of multimodal texts.
 Format - Example of visual text visual text
include picture book, cartoons,
Part of the Text billboards, photographs,
 Titles – allows the readers to advertisement, artwork, DVD &
identify the overall topic of the book covers, web pages and
text and understand the main illustration.
idea. Text specific issue
 Heading – allow the reader to
identify specific topic and also Plagiarism – is defined as “the act of
divide the text in section stealing from others their thought or
 Bold print and Italics – used their writing and claiming them as one’s
to sign the reader that the word own.”
is important. Public interest – defined as “the
concept of general welfare or benefit of
the public as a whole on contrast to their

Downloaded by Loreal Jane (cruzalanijoy@gmail.com)

 lOMoARcPSD|32405148

particular interest of a person or group.” no intention to cause harm when

– public interest is a common concept published
among citizen in the management and 2. Misleading content – it is when
affair of a local, state, and national an article is published with the
government. intent of misleading the readers by
using misleading information when
Tabloidization – is the change in the
presenting an issue or charactering
style of journalism away from politics and
an individual, often putting the
foreign affairs towards entertainment and
issue or subjecting the person in a
celebrities.
bad light.
Environmental Journalism – this 3. Impostor content – this is a type
means the “bribery of mass media of mimicry or copycat news page
personnel, usually through cash put in where an authentic news page is
envelopes” to influence them to write imitated, but false information is
news favorable to one party or side. printed on it.
4. Fabricated content – this is when
Sensationalism – in journalism (And
a whole publication contains 100%
more specifically, the mass media),
false information and gets
sensationalism is a type of editorial
published whether in print of online
tactic. Events and topics on news stories
via a website, with an intention to
are selected and worded to excite the
deceive people to cause harm.
greatest number of reads and viewers.
5. False connection – this is more
Fake news online when there are headlines
that do not match with the photos
 In a 2017 council of Europe reports, of the main story of the article. The
it is cited that the term “fake news” term “click – bait headlines” could
does not entirely encompass the apply to this when websites create
level of wrong information being very sensational headlines, so we
peddled by a specific entity to the are tempted to click on it.
public. The proper label to use 6. False context – this concerns
when analyzing so – called “fake stories that people repost online,
news” “information disorder” but they add their own biased
 To look at information disorder is to reading or contextualization of the
loot the types of falseness the story they are sharing which
information carries, also usually goes against what the
considering the harmful effect it actual story is telling.
could have both the subject of the 7. Manipulated content – this is
wrong information and the reader when authentic information of
or audience who gets affected by photos/image are deliberately
it. altered to deceive the readers.
Three typed of information disorder Print and audio media production
1. Misinformation – is when false News Writing – in order to create news,
information is shared, but no harm the structure of 5Ws and 1H is always
is meant. followed to present facts. This involves
2. Disinformation – is when false presenting the details by answering the
information is knowingly shared to basing questions about news items (who,
cause harm what, where, when, and how) presented
3. Mal – information – is when in an inverted pyramid style.
genuine information is shared to
cause harm, often by moving  What – what happened in a given
information design to stay private incident? Give the basic
into public sphere information everyone needs to
know first.
 Who – who is involved in the story?
Seven common types of If there is more than one person,
misinformation and disinformation how are the related to each other
in a given incident? Who got
1. Satire or parody – it is a piece of affected?
information often written with a  Where – where did this event or
sarcastic humorous tone. There is incident happen?

Downloaded by Loreal Jane (cruzalanijoy@gmail.com)

 lOMoARcPSD|32405148

 When – when did this event show the picture of an object or area
happen? Include the time of day, instead
specific hour, if relevant.
Kinds of angles – this depends on how
 Why – why did this incident
to tilt your camera as you frame your
happen? What could have caused
shot.
it? Stick to narrating the facts only,
and never speculate. Eye level – the camera’s lenses should
 How – how did this incident be horizontal equal or parallel to the
happen? You can state the details subject’s eyes.
in chronological order of narration.
High angle – the camera is raised higher
than subject’s eyes/head, tilted down so
as appear “looking down” at the subject.
Main point of the article – the 5 W’s plus
the hook Low angle – the camera is placed lower
than the subject’s eyes/head, tilted up so
as to appear “looking up” at the subject
Additional essential information
Canted shot angle – the horizontal axis
is tilted a bit to the left or right side,
utilized depending on the need of the
story.
Less essential details
Radio commentary – most of the radio
talk shows run for more than an hour.
However, a radio hour is not full of talk.
Photoshoot
Framing – use the rule of thirds principle
in composing a shot, regardless if you are
shooting with a portrait or landscape
orientation. This means imagining that
your frame is divided into three equal
parts.
Kinds of shots – this depends on how
far or how close you are to the subject
you are photographing. There is also an
option of using the zoom lens capacity of
your camera, but the quality of the
image might supper if you zoom.
Establishing shot – covering a great
expanse of an area, panoramic view is
used to establish and area or location at
the begging of a scene or situation
Long shot – usually measured with a
stand human subject, featuring the whole
body (from head to foot)
Medium shot – measured from the tip of
the human head to almost half the body
(cut lower frame at the torso or below
the hip/waist)
Close – up – focus on the face of the
person with the top frame cutting half
the forehead or including the whole head
(never cut the jaw)
Extreme close – up – a more detailed
focusing of a certain body part or object,
micro view.
Empty shot – no human featured in the
photo but it is important and relevant to

Downloaded by Loreal Jane (cruzalanijoy@gmail.com)