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What is media literacy?

The ability to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in various formats.

What are the 5 properties of media literacy?

1. Media are constructions; 2. Audience negotiate meaning; 3. Media have commercial implications; 4. Media have social & political implications; 5. Each medium has a unique aesthetic form.

Define technology literacy.

The ability to acquire relevant information and use modern tools.

What are the three principles of technology literacy?

Convenience, Efficacy, Accessibility.

Define information literacy.

The ability to find, evaluate, and use information effectively.

List the stages of information literacy.

1. Identify and recognize the need for information; 2. Determine different sources of information; 3. Cite or research for info; 4. Analyze and evaluate the quality of info; 5. Organize or store info; 6. Use info in an ethical, efficient, and effective way; 7. Create and communicate new knowledge.

What factors should be considered in credible sources?

The website is from a trusted organization, has an affiliated author, and is updated and relevant.

What is plagiarism?

Using someone else's work without giving credit.

What is the difference between quotations and paraphrasing?

Quotations are borrowing someone's exact words, while paraphrasing is using your own words to rephrase the same idea.

What is the significance of the Pre Industrial Age in media history?

It marks the birth of communication in media with early forms like cave paintings and the development of paper.

What major inventions characterized the Industrial Age?

The printing press for mass production, newspaper, typewriter, telephone, motion picture photography projection, telegraph.