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“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”

One aspect of technology that is widely used by Generation Z is social media. Social Media is a creation that is very helpful and convenient to the human race. It helped a lot in the dissemination of information, idea and knowledge. Social Media users engage information through computer, smartphones, tablet and is operated with web-based software. According to digitalvidya, social media has different types and these are; social networks, media sharing networks, discussion forums, bookmarking & content curation networks and the likes. However it is not widely known that social media has it’s type; we just know that it consists of Facebook, twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest which are called social media in general.  Social media has an enormous influence on public opinion and can be of influence in social awareness and since everything has a negative and positive effect thus, social media. Let’s talk about the negative and positive effects of Facebook.

Facebook is a social media platform that became open to those over the age of 13, in that case, kids, can use social media to seek knowledge about technology. This platform has risen as an option for people to build influence and opportunity. It can increase our social awareness, the power of social media and its ability to increase social awareness of important causes and incidents. As a millennial in this new world of technology and opportunities has been easier to seek and search. However, even though social media is greatly affecting us there are so many people that are using it to spread rumors and gossip. Also, they spread false information that can cause other people to believe the false information that they didn't know.  Youth needs to be guided in terms of the usage of social media because if you didn't, it can cause to internet addiction. Also, experts of computers, are at a large advantage, and bring them to build a scam website which is called social engineering. Be alert on scamming website; Remember there is no easy money even on the internet.

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“What Divides The World in This Current Situation”

COVID-19 has highly affected the world especially that this virus is very contagious. A lot of countries are on lockdown because of corona virus. Schools are shutdown resulting to the cancellation of classes. People are prohibited to go outside if not necessary. Because of this, the DEPED announced to continue the new school year with the 'new normal'. Classes are now resumed virtually and digital divide occurred. Digital divide is described as a 'gap' between individuals with different socioeconomic backgrounds and their ability to access and use information communication technology. A lot of students and teachers are still not familiar with the use of smartphones, laptops and other gadgets. A lot of schools still depend on books. That is why the world of education today is divided. Some students and teachers have their own virtual classes via gadgets while others only depend on modules. There is also a situation where students are provided their own gadget, but they lack knowledge on how to use it. They are having a hard time learning on using softwares like Word, while there are also students who have no problem with the new normal, because they have already adapted it. This also happens to some teachers. A lot of teachers that are working on DEPED are not used to these technologies usually because of their age. Therefore, the new normal created a gap between individuals in terms of learning due to the emerging of new technology.

 As a Media and Information literate and a student, what I can atleast help to bridge the gap of this digital divide is to help those students who are having a hard time using gadgets. Especially today in Liceo de Cagayan University, students are all having online classes and it is my pleasure to guide those students who are having a hard time coping with technical difficulties. Also, because of the emerging of social media, I will use my knowledge to educate those people by posting things like tutorials or tips about using their own gadgets. Helping each other in this new normal is very important to bridge the gap. As a student, I will teach those who are in need for them to also use their knowledge that I have taught to those people who are also in the same boat. I may not help everybody but spreading my own digital knowledge in a good and informative way can improve those I have reached.

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“The Setbacks of Piracy”

Oxford languages referred piracy as the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work. Piracy could be quite common for us citizens of the Philippines in the aspect of DVDs, because original copies of DVDs are quite expensive for us to afford however, this should not be normalize. Piracy is an act of crime, and it is certainly illegal. It includes copying or reproducing files without the consent of the owner and distributing them without giving credits and benefits that recognize the ownership of the file.Piracy is a content or file that has steal to people who create and being stolen.Piracy is a very nature of illegal because you steal or copyright the hard work of other people and it is more likely that you are also stealing the right to have a money of the artist’s pockets. Piracy might not be a crime to other people mostly other people it is because they have a benefits on them.

Piracy is a felony. Unfortunately, the sharing of software, games , music, eBooks, images, etc. by many young people and adults is just a convenient tool to help reduce costs. In reality, digital piracy is sometimes depicted as a victimless crime, but that interpretation is false.Piracy adversely affects any single person employed in these sectors and in their supply chains.Most of the people lost their work because of piracy and stolen of profits will happen and because of that it will cause a struggle to people for them to support and sustain the needs of their family.Loss of income ensures that they don't go out to eat and shop to help keep their local community 's economy healthier.Lack of income can cause families to cannot afford to sent their children to school and build a brighter future for the country.When you download unauthorized content or share copyrighted content with others, you don't see the victims, but internet piracy steals the money of millions of hard-working people.

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“The Significance of Media from Traditional to New”

In the past few decades, media has been serving and has become our source of information. Starting from the early age till this day, media has supported us with knowledge and entertainment. There are different kinds of media; examples are print media, broadcast media, and the new media. Print media is a mass communication of any form of printing publication like newspaper, magazines, books, etc. and one of the oldest forms of communication but still proves its importance in the modern world. The advantage of print media is that it’s tangible and can establish brands in the business world. On the other hand, broadcast media which uses television and radio for spreading information. Broadcast media has a great impact in promoting businesses in television and radio to help in retaining information from the viewers. As years goes by, people still innovating and finding ways to create an invention which can benefit others and to make life even easier. This drives people in creating new media which is internet-based and has become more convenient media for most of us because it is a two-way process of communication making it interactive with its users. This new media also offers an easy access and a wide variety of information across the globe. Even this blog is an example of the new media as Tumblr is one of the electronic communication forms the new media had made.

The evolution of media is very significant with our lives, it make us even more informed with it being easy access as of the moment. The different kind of media has different uses, advantages, disadvantages and purpose however, they rely on information that are passed or is already known to the creator or writer that is why we need to acquire messages that are relevant and are only facts. With these kind of media being utilized all together effectively, the world might be as one and will be much informed with what’s happening for they can acquire media in different forms yet are all accurate. Print media, broadcast media, and new media may have used unalike mediums or ways in imparting information to the public, but they all share the same goal and that is to help in educating people and give information, knowledge, and lessons to its readers and users effectively. These media has also help in uniting or to interlink us together as one community and as fellow citizens. Media significantly changed our lives and has continuously made us informed, may it be in the past occurrence to the most current information there might be.

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“The Rise of New Media”

Media with any product, form and year is truly relevant. Media had existed even before it was named; it keeps us informed and does give us the idea on a certain subject or topic. According to “Importance of Media”, media plays a vital role in the dissemination of information. Thus, what I am doing as of the moment is called media. Media has evolved along with human beings and technology throughout the beginning of human civilization. Different and various evolutions of media had been born such as the tribal age; where most likely using all senses to successfully communicate, disseminate information and warnings was highly functional, followed by the pre-industrial age, industrial age, electronic age and information age. With this non-stop evolution of media, some of the mediums are already forgotten while others are almost-forgotten. Traditional media had also made a huge contribution in the utterance of immense knowledge and scattering of information however, as new development and forms of media come to light, will traditional media end up like all other forms of media that are now out in the cold? Or will make a night of it?

Traditional media such as print, radio, televisions, yellow pages, newspapers, books, magazines and the likes, still remains as a trustworthy information source however; with the existence of new media its presence is threated. New media compared to traditional media has more engagement and interactivity, online ads and digital media are more inactive than the old media. Hence, new media are inspired with traditional media however, it uses and are consumed through smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop and most of the time it consist the same information with the old media but are delivered in a new way and style. These two types of media on the other hand has different audiences so they balance each other in order for everybody to accumulate new knowledge. Traditional media had already been overlapped by new media as of the moment but this doesn’t conclude to traditional media fading away five years from now, maybe it will but surely not in as fast as five years. However, as of the moment, we shouldn’t wish for one of them to vanish for both of them play a pronounced and important role as of today, these two media could achieve the best outputs when they’re put together as one.

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“Understanding the Relevance of Information and News Literacy in the Midst of Social Era”

Although traditional form of media such as newspapers, magazines, t.v. networks and radio stations have been using technology, the increasing percentage of Internet usage has an impact on the decline in the use of the traditional media. The increase in the number of internet users is also accompanied by the increased access to social media as the new mass media in society. Mass media has become a source of information for people who are able to deploy information, political, economic, social and cultural. In today's social era; which is according to fastcompany, about connecting things, people, and ideas and is a network of people with shared interests that create ways that serves their needs. Information and news dissemination channels are increasing, along with the easy accessibility to all sorts of information that is why we must be very careful of the things we believe in and this is where information and news literacy enters in.

Globalization has meant that the world is simply becoming smaller and more connected.  However, whatever forms of media they may have presented, Information and News would be all over the place because without it we would be ignorant. Articles, newscast and the press is necessary to enable to inform the public about certain events that’s happening in their area and that might affect their living thus, this can make different people around the world connected. However, we cannot always be so sure about the news and information that we are feed to, that is why  steps and processes are made available to keep us on track of safe and proper information. We must know how to be literate enough in this generation, we must  put  into considerations the information we’re going to swallow and digest in order for us not to get poisoned of the wrong information. Information and News Literacy would be a big help to make us a better individual which carries rightful and efficient knowledge about a certain event.

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"Media and Government: A Love-Hate Relationship"

Media and the government are both essential part of our society. They both have their own importance and functions. According to Oxford Languages, media is the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet) regarded collectively while the government is the governing body of a nation, state, or community. The government's duty is to guide and lead the people to the right place by making and implemting laws, while the duty of media is to notify and inform us about what is timely happening. However, with their great impact and importance, both of them can also be manipulative since they have the power and access to the public. With all their significant and insignificant contribution, there can also be conflict and competition that’s unfortunately developed between them, however with their small clashes with each other, they still have one and the same goal and that’s to effectively influence the public for the betterness of our country.

With our sketch, we wanted to show that even though the government and media usually have trouble about the information that will be available for publicity and most of the time end up opposing each other still, without their cooperation and mutual understanding, Filipinos wouldn't be able to connect and retrieve what's going on with the government system and its management. The government will also have a hard time about developing, instructing and to relay informations to the country without the help of media as it is the medium of the public to the government. As you can see above the media and the government are doing a helping hand to carry the informations that are yet to be shared to the public even when they are a little bit having miscommunication and does not have the same way of how to achieve their goals, they are helping each other to reach the public, their needs and their voices (opinions).

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“The Value of Being a Media and Information Literate Individual”

Media and Information can help you improve your learning and become a brilliant receiver and sender of knowledge through different kinds of platforms. The value of being a media and information literate is important even before the beginning of human civilization where people get to communicate with one another. Media has been part of human lives and like how human evolution was presented and changes, so as the media; where sharing of new knowledge and information went from writing in cave walls or rocks or leaves or trees until the internet and this whole set up was invented. As the internet takes lead in our daily lives, able to access thousands and billions of ideas, we cannot deny that misleading messages, news, and details have been also uncontrollable. In order to become someone who’s a source of information to share to others, we must be someone who learns first and with all these cunning knowledge that are easily accessible we must be someone who’s literate enough.

According to Maureen Connolly and Vicky Giouroukakis, being a literate person today means more than being able to read and write, in a world diverse with cultures, print texts, media, and technologies, a literate person needs to possess certain specific capabilities. In order to be a media and information literate, one should use and evaluate social media appropriately and not by sharing rumors and fake news that can possibly cause commotion and panic to the public. We should always be responsible of the information, messages and details we’re spreading. Not only that, we should never use media to point fingers to someone or to be with someone’s side just because you wanted to, like how we act in the real world we should always find what is truthful and refrain from judging unfairly. It is important that we all know how to become and act as a media and information literate to be able to effectively communicate and be of help to others.