Andrea Kate Bulaclac

"All good things come to those who wait."

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Reflection - MIL

The topic discussion of this quarter helped me to learn about more of the technologies that I use everyday. It helped me to know more about them and how they evolve through the years. In the pictures that was shown in the discussion, you can see how technology evolve, it become more easier and high tech.

Examples of technologies that evolved through years

Before:

After:

Because of this technologies, our life become easier and faster unlike before.

Another thing that I learned from the discussions are about the literacies, information and media that we usually encounter in our daily life.

About the information discussion, determining whether the if it is reliable, fact or fake will surely help me especially now in this present time that social media is popular and i used it everyday for entertainment, to be informed, send messages and etc. Many information are scattered in social media and it's hard to determine whether it is reliable or not. MIL helped me understand about this problem and the things that I learned from this subject will be a great help to me as a user of social media and other medias.

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Media and Information Sources and Languages

Media and Information Sources and Languages

Language

- pertains to the technical and symbolic ingredients or codes and conventions.

Language have an important role in spreading information. It has to be easy to understand, direct, and clear so that people who will see this can understand it very well. The codes and symbols also must be put in properly so that there are people who will not misinterpret the info.

Technical Codes

- it includes sound, camera, angles, types of shots, and lighting.

The basic camera shots are extreme wide shot, wide shot, medium shot, medium close up, close up and extreme close up. Camera shots are used when you are filming or capturing something or someone. The different camera shots help to show the emotion or when in extreme wide shot, it shows the place or scenery.

The different shot angles are low, high, canted, bird's eye, worm's eye and eye-level. This camera shots will give a different experience and emotion.

Media Language

- it refers to codes, conventions, formats, symbols, and narrative structures. They indicate the meaning of media messages to an audience.

The sources that we see on the internet are not all true or fact. Some people made up stories or fake information. People who will believe in it will spread it to other people and will cause misunderstandings or be misinformed. We can say that if the information is reliable, it can be verified and evaluated. It can also be reliable if the time it was produce was right.

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PROPAGANDA

Digital Poster

Nowadays, many people share online. Some posts have harmful contents that cannot be shared to public because it can affect people's mind set or hurt their emotion but there are still some people who still share these at social media. Its either they don't know that it is harmful or they don't care what others may think to the content of the post.

We must think it through before we share a post. Think if its necessary, harmful, helpful, and a fact especially if it is related to news.

Think Before You Click!

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What is Information Literacy ?

Information Literacy

It refers to the ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, effectively use and communicate information in its various formats.

~Information is important to us because this is where we get our knowledge and be updated in news reports on what is happening to our country and also to other countries. For me, the other purpose of information is to provide learning to us students especially we are using virtual class instead of the actual class held in school. Information also a way to communicate to other people. We can see and look the information we need in the internet, television, newspapers (but today it is not really used by a lot of people), radio and etc. We can acquire and store information by reading, downloading, you can also record it, printing, photographing and other ways that can store the info.

~Information can be a fact or fake. Many people change the information they get and some make it fake. Because of this, some people get the wrong information they need and share wrong information to other people. The most important in getting an information is to check if the info is truly a fact or comes from a reliable source.

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Evolution of Media

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700)

In this age, people discovered fire, paper developed from plants, and weapons are made by stones, bronze, copper and iron.

Examples are the ff:

Papyrus in Egypt

Cave Paintings

Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia

Industrial Age (1700s - 1930s)

This is the age where printing in paper started. Machines are developed and manufacturing various products, for example, newspapers, printing press for mass production. Motion picture also was developed in this age.

Electronic Age (1930s - 1980s)

Machines evolved in this age. Long distance communication became more efficient. This where computers, radios and televisions were invented.

New/ Information Age (1900s - 2000s)

The media became more high-Tech. Communication was faster than before. Because of Internet, social networks started and mobile devices became popular. Pictures are digitalized.

Examples are the ff:

Tablet (1993)

Portable Laptops

Friendster (2002)

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As times goes by, we can see that media are improving and evolving. Because of this new technologies, our life became faster and easier. For example, the typewriter, now it is called keyboard that is more easier to use. As the human mind evolve in time so as the media continue to evolve.

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Media also means 'means' and comes from the Latin "Meduim", which means "middle". It is the means of communication that reach or influence people widely.

Mass Media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

Examples of Mass Media

-Television

-Newspapers

-Magazines

-Radio

-internet

Mass Communication is the process of imparting and exchanging information through mass media to large segments of the population.

Communication Process

-Sender a person who sends or transmits a message.

-Receiver is the one who receives the message.

-Encoding turning the thoughts into communication.

-Decoding is to analyze and interpret the message.

-Message a verbal or written communication sent to the receiver.

-Channel is the meduim or method through which a massage is sent to receiver.

There are Three Distinct Dimensions of MIL

- Information Literacy

the ability to find, evaluate, organize, use, and communicate information in all its various formats.

-Media Literary

ability to identify different types of media and understand its wide array of sources.

-Digital Literacy

ability to use information and communication technologies.

In this present time, media is very important and many people use this in their everyday life. It is where we get updates and receive news report on what is happening everyday. Communication is also very important to us because it is how we communicate and socialize to other people. Also through mass media, we can communicate to other people by using the different types of mass media like internet, the most popular and used this day.

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Hi I'm Andrea Kate Bulaclac or andrea for short. Born on October 9 in year 2002. I like to do artcrafts, sketch, photography and painting. I like listening to music and two of my favorite song are Michael Bublé's "Feeling Good" and George Ezra "Shotgun". My favorite quote is "Everything happens for a reason"

I think there's no such thing as coincidence even the little things that happened in our life, everything happens for a reason. :))

This is an example of a photo that I took several days after New Year's day. It was a beautiful afternoon.

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