MEDIA AND
INFORMATION
SOURCES
LESSON 5
Prepared by: Nica Rose Bron
WHERE TO
FIND
INFORMATION
SOURCES?
LIBRARY INTERNET
LIBRARY
As defined in Cambridge
Dictionary, A library is “a building,
room, or organization that has a
collection, especially of books,
music, and information that can be
accessed by computer for people
to read, use, or borrow.” .
LIBRARY
Aside from books and journals,
libraries also house advanced
e-resources.
TYPES OF
BOOKS
1. NON-FICTION
presents facts and
real events
1. NON-FICTION
Essays
Biographies
Autobiography
Journals
Academic
Memoir
Textbooks, etc
2. FICTION
product of the writer’s
imagination.
INTERNET
A global computer network
providing a variety of
information and
communication facilities,
consisting of interconnected
networks using standardized
communication protocols:
EXAMPLES OF
INTERNET MEDIA
AND INFORMATION
SOURCES
1. WIKIPEDIA
Its first edit began on 15 January
2001.
The earliest known proposal for
an online encyclopedia was made
by Rick Gates in 1993,
The concept of a free-as-in-
Wikipedia is a free online
encyclopedia, created and freedom online encyclopedia was
edited by volunteers around proposed by Richard Stallman in
the world and hosted by the 1998.
Wikimedia Foundation.
The Google story begins in 1995 at
2. GOOGLE
Stanford University.
They called this search engine
Backrub.
A play on the word “googol,” a
mathematical term form for the
number represented by the numeral 1
search for information
followed by 100 zeros.
about (someone or
Larry and Sergey’s mission to
something) on the
organize a seemingly infinite amount
internet using the search
of information on the web.
engine, Google.
3. BING 4. YAHOO!
Yahoo! Was started at Stanford
University. It was founded in
Bing is a web search January 1994 by Jerry Yang
tool claimed and and David Filo, who were
worked by Microsoft. Electrical Engineering graduate.
OTHER MEDIA INFORMATION SOURCES
01. 02. 03.
MAGAZINES NEWSPAPER ENCYCLOPEDIA
Periodical publication A printed publication (usually A book or set of books giving
containing and illustrations, issued daily or weekly) information on many subjects
typically covering a particular consisting of folded or on many aspects of a
subject or area of interest. unstapled sheets and subject and typically
containing news, feature arranged alphabetically.
articles, advertisements, and
correspondence.
