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Bautista, Sunshine Dale A. 12 STEM ABISANA

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For me, personally, I think a mobile phone device helps me more than any other gadget does. A smartphone can multitask and that really matters when you’re a student that needs to get work done in an ample amount of time. Especially now that there’s a worldwide pandemic that’s still occurring and shows no sign of stopping, having a phone is as convenient as having a warm and comfy blanket in a cold night. Phones can give you quick access to any sites that the internet has to offer. The gadget mentioned also makes it possible for you to reconnect with your former and current friends that you miss during quarantine. As for entertainment, online games kept me company ever since and I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one that always gets distracted by it. Millions of games are absolutely available and free, this makes it hard not to like phones or the internet in general. Other things like music, podcasts, news, articles, etc. are also easily accessible for everyone. Mobile phones are essential to most people nowadays. We use it for jobs, school purposes, social life, entertainment, and daily news. Smartphones are one of the best things that ever existed, and that’s a fact.

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“Tips on how to be Socially Responsible”

For someone that has been using social media platforms and network sites, I’ve had my fair share of mistakes while using the app. There are times where I came off rude, ambiguous even. Most people don’t understand that there are limits to what you can, and can’t share on social media. Maybe it is because they feel too comfortable with their surroundings, or they are just quite careless with their well-being. All jokes aside, here are a few tips to help you be responsible with your current social media accounts.

1.       Don’t share it all.

When you look at different people’s accounts on Facebook, Instagram, or even Twitter, you will notice that a lot of people have their home address, family members, contact number, and other personal information that will give someone a clear idea of where they live, and who are their families. That is obviously not a good idea. This might cause your doom because someone has a very vivid view of your personal data.

 2.       Don’t express all your emotions.

Expressing your opinion or feelings about a certain situation in social media, is not a bad thing. It gets bad when instead of confronting the issue, you are using the platform as a therapeutic relief for your own problems. Be responsible enough to know your boundaries.

 3.       Be aware of what you’re posting/presenting.

Avoid posting stuff online that might offend people in a way that it is punishable by the law. Many don’t know that you can actually be arrested for being ignorant about a certain subject.

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Media as...

Media as an Information Industry

The media and entertainment industry consists of film, print, radio, and television. These segments include movies, TV shows, radio shows, news, music, newspapers, magazines, and books. The top

10 media and entertainment companies are The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, Direct

Media as a Culture of Entertainment

By comparison, culture — the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of groups large and small — is not necessarily formalized. Culture is necessary for enjoying and making sense of the human experience, but there are few formalized rules governing culture.

Mass communication influences both society and culture. Different societies have different media systems, and the way they are set up by law influences how the society works. Different forms of communication, including messages in the mass media, give shape and structure to society. Additionally, mass media outlets can spread cultural knowledge and artistic works around the globe. People exercise cultural preferences when it comes to consuming media, but mass media corporations often decide which stories to tell and which to promote, particularly when it comes to forms of mass media that are costly to produce such as major motion pictures, major video game releases and global news products.

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Different Types of Media

The goal of media is to convey an advertising message to the audience through the most appropriate media channel for their product. In general, you can classify media in three main categories.

Traditional Media 

It covers the kinds of media that were invented prior to the invention of the internet.

Print Media

This type of news media used to be the only way of delivering information to the public. For the generations of the 80s and 90s, print media was the only media of entertain. People relied on newspapers and magazines to learn everything, from recipes and entertainment news to important information about the country or the world. Print media includes:

a. Newspapers – printed and distributed on a daily or weekly basis. They include news related to sports, politics, technology, science, local news, national news, international news, birth notices, as well as entertainment news related to fashion, celebrities, and movies. Today’s parents grew up with this type of printed media.

b. Magazines – printed on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. It contains information about finance, food, lifestyle, fashion, sports, etc.

c. Books – focused on a particular topic or subject, giving the reader a chance to spread their knowledge about their favorite topic.

d. Banners – used to advertise a company’s services and products, hung on easily-noticed sights to attract people’s attention.

e. Billboards – huge advertisements created with the help of computers. Their goal is to attract people passing by.

f. Brochures – a type of booklet that includes everything about one company – its products, services, terms and conditions, contact details, address, etc. They are either distributed with the newspapers, or hand over to people.

g. Flyers – used mostly by small companies due to the low cost of advertising. They contain the basic information about a company, their name, logo, service or product, and contact information, and they are distributed in public areas.  

Broadcasting Media

Broadcasting media includes videos, audios, or written content that provides important or entertaining information shared by different methods:

a. Television – in the past, there were a few channels sharing various types of content, whereas now we have hundreds of TV channels to choose from. Each channel delivers a different type of content, so you have a separate channel for news, drama, movies, sports, animation, nature, travel, politics, cartoon, and religion. It’s the number one broadcasting media due to its reach to the audience.

b. Radio – uses radio waves to transmit entertaining, informative, and educative content to the public. Due to its high reach to the audience, radio is widely used for advertising products and services. Radio is one of the oldest means of entertainment, and today people often hear it to find out the weather and traffic while commuting.  

c. Movies – film, motion picture, screenplay, moving picture, or movie has world-wide reachability. It’s the best type of mass media to promote cultures and spread social awareness. Movies have always played a huge part in the entertainment world.

New Media   

New media was a term coined to refer media that developed when the use of computer technology became ordinary and common in most parts of the world.

Internet Media

Nowadays, we are relying on the Internet to get the news a lot more often than the traditional news sources. Websites provide information in the form of video, text, and audio. We can even choose the way we want to receive the news. Types of Internet media include:

a. Social networks or websites – including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Quora, Reddit, Pinterest, etc. They are user-friendly and widely used by people around the world. Although we can find any news here, they may be misleading because of the lack of regulations on the content shared.

b. Online forums -  an online place where we can comment, message, or discuss a particular topic. Forums allow us to share knowledge with other people with the same interest. That’s why it’s regarded as the best platform to seek support and assistance.

c. Podcast – a series of audios focused on a particular topic or theme. We can listen to them on a computer or a mobile phone. It’s a platform that allows anyone to share their knowledge and communicate with the world.

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The Communication Process

In order to understand how information flows within the media, we should first understand how basic communication works.

The communication process has several components that enable the transmission of a message. Here are the various parts:

1.Sender: This is the person that is delivering a message to a recipient.

2. Message: This refers to the information that the sender is relaying to the receiver.

3. Channel of communication: This is the transmission or method of delivering the message.

4. Decoding: This is the interpretation of the message. Decoding is performed by the receiver.

5. Receiver: The receiver is the person who is getting or receiving the message.

6. Feedback: In some instances, the receiver might have feedback or a response for the sender. This starts can interaction.

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Media and Information Literacy

What is media?

The term media, which is the plural of medium, refers to the communication channels through which we disseminate news, music, movies, education, promotional messages and other data. It includes physical and online newspapers and magazines, television, radio, billboards, telephone, the Internet, fax and billboards.

It describes the various ways through which we communicate in society. Because it refers to all means of communication, everything ranging from a telephone call to the evening news on television can be called media.

What is Information Literacy?

“Information literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, organize, use, and communicate information in all its various formats, most notably in situations requiring decision making, problem solving, or the acquisition of knowledge.”

- Skyline College