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New Political Media

Forms of communication that facilitates the production, dissemination, and exchange of political content on platforms and within networks that accommodate interaction and collaboration.

Post Truth Media

Was prominent during the 2016 presidential election.

Media and Information Literacy

Enables people to interpret and make informed judgements as users of information and media, as well as to become skillful creators and producers of information and media messages in their own right.

Literacy

Ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.

Media

The physical objects used to communicate with, or the mass communication through physical objects such as radio, television, computers, film, etc.

Media Literacy

The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms.

Information

Broad term that covers processed data, knowledge derived from study, experience, instructions, signals or symbols.

Information Literacy

Ability to recognize when information is needed, and to locate, evaluate, and effectively communicate information in its various formats.

Technology Literacy

The ability of an individual to appropriately, and effectively use technological tools (access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information).

Print

Used to be the only way of delivering information to the public.

Broadcast

Most expedient means to transmit information immediately to the widest possible audience although the internet currently challenges television as the primary source of news.

Internet

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.

Media Convergence

The merging of the different types of mass media.

Smartphone

The most relevant example of media convergence.

Indigenous media

Forms of media expression, conceptualized, produced, and circulated by indigenous people worldwide as vehicles for communication including cultural preservation, cultural and artistic expression, political self-determination, and cultural sovereignty.

Library

Collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes.

Online source

It can be an online newspaper, magazine or television websites such as NBC or CNN. Peer reviewed journals, webpages, forums, and blogs are also online sources. Some other names for online sources are electronic sources, web sources, and Internet sources.

Reliability of Information

Information is said to be reliable if it can be verified and evaluated.

Accuracy of Information

Accuracy refers to the closeness of the report to the actual data.

Value of Information

Information is said to be of value if it aids the user in making or improving decisions.

Authority of the Service

Sources with an established expertise on the subject matter are considered as having sound authority on the subject.

Timeliness

Reliability, accuracy, and value of information may vary based on the time it was produced or acquired.