Media and Information Literacy Review

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering the definitions of communication, types of literacy, and the historical evolution of media from the Pre-Industrial to the Information Age.

COMMUNICATION

The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else.

INFORMATION

A broad term that covers data or knowledge derived from study, experience, instruction, signals or symbols, and knowledge of specific events or situations.

NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION

A type of communication that uses body language, signs, symbols, colors, gestures, and facial expressions to convey messages.

VERBAL COMMUNICATION

A type of communication that is conducted through oral or written means.

LITERACY

The 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 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, aiming to empower citizens with competencies to engage with traditional media and new technologies.

INFORMATION LITERACY

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

TECHNOLOGY (DIGITAL) LITERACY

The ability of an individual to responsibly, appropriately, and effectively use digital technology, communication tools, or networks to locate, evaluate, use, and create information.

MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY (MIL)

A set of competencies that empowers citizens to access, retrieve, understand, evaluate and use, create, as well as share information and media content in all formats using various tools in a critical, ethical, and effective way.

PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

The era before the $1700's$ where people discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron.

CAVE PAINTINGS

Parietal art involving the application of color pigments on the walls, floors, or ceilings of ancient rock shelters, dating back to $35,000 BC$.

CLAY TABLETS

A writing medium used in Mesopotamia ($2400 BC$) for cuneiform characters imprinted on wet clay with a reed stylus.

PAPYRUS

A writing material developed in Egypt around $2500 BC$.

ACTA DIURNA

Daily official notices in Rome, established in $130 BC$.

DIBAO

Ancient Chinese gazettes dating to the $2nd$ Century.

CODEX

A type of book used in the Mayan region during the $5th$ Century.

INDUSTRIAL AGE

The period between the $1700s$ and $1930s$ characterized by the use of power steam, machine tools, iron production, and the manufacturing of products like books through the printing press.

ELECTRONIC AGE

The era from the $1930s$ to the $1980s$ where the invention of the transistor led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and early large-scale computers.

TRANSISTOR

The invention that ushered in the electronic age and led to more efficient long-distance communication.

INFORMATION AGE

The period from the $1900s$ to the $2000s$ where the Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of social networks and digitalized data.

TRADITIONAL MEDIA

Media characterized by a one-directional experience with limited audience involvement and specific sense receptors, such as print, radio, and television.

NEW MEDIA

Media that is interactive, allows simultaneous feedback from audiences, and integrates all aspects of old media, such as social media and websites.

CUNEIFORM

A system of writing used on clay tablets in the Ancient Near East (Akkadian tuppu) where characters were imprinted using a stylus made of reed.

PARIETAL ART

Another term for cave art, which encompasses paintings and images found on cave walls.