Language in Media and Types of Media Flashcards

VOCABULARY flashcards covering the importance of media language, types of media codes and conventions, media formats, and the concept of media convergence based on Modules 5, 6, and 7.

Media Language

The way different media communicate meaning through a combination of images, sounds, words, and symbols using codes and conventions.

Media Codes

The signs and symbols used to communicate meaning in media.

Symbolic Codes

A type of media code that uses symbols and images to show ideas, feelings, and meanings, including colors, clothing, facial expressions, gestures, and settings.

Technical Codes

A type of media code that uses technical elements and equipment to tell the story and create effects, including camera angles, lighting, editing, sound, and music.

Written Codes

A type of media code that uses words and written language to deliver messages, including headlines, captions, fonts, written text, and speech.

Media Conventions

The accepted rules and ways used to organize media messages and make them easy to understand for the audience.

Story Structure

A media convention where messages follow a certain beginning, middle, and ending.

Genre

A media convention where media are grouped into types such as news, drama, comedy, documentary, or adventure.

Layout

A media convention referring to the arrangement of images, texts, and other elements on a screen or page.

Framing of Images

A technique used to focus attention and create meaning within media presentations.

Print Media

A type of media that uses paper and ink, such as books, newspapers, magazines, and billboards, providing detailed information.

Broadcast Media

A type of media that uses airwaves to reach audiences through spoken words, interviews, sounds, and visuals, such as radio and television.

New Media

Content shared through digital platforms and the internet, such as blogs, podcasts, websites, and social media, allowing users to create and share content.

Media Convergence

The merging of traditional and digital media that occurs because media content can now be digitalized.

Technological Convergence

The process made possible by smartphones, computers, and the internet, allowing people to access media anytime and anywhere.

Tri-media or Multimedia Personalities

Personalities who appear in print, broadcast, and new media, such as Korina Sanchez, Atom Araullo, Vice Ganda, and Iza Calzado.

Information Evaluation Criteria

Standard measures used to assess information sources, including reliability, accuracy, authority, value, and timeliness.

Indigenous Media

Specific information sources that are differentiated from common information sources in Media and Information Literacy.