MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY (MIL)

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Communication

The systematic process that uses symbols, signals, and messages to create meanings and expressions exchanged from one person to another.

Media

The physical objects, channels, or mass communication tools used to convey messages, information, and data to an audience.

Information

Knowledge, data, or facts gathered through experiences, observation, education, or targeted research.

Media Literacy

The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms, empowering citizens to engage responsibly with technology.

Information Literacy

The ability to recognize when information is needed and to effectively locate, evaluate, use, and communicate that information to solve a problem.

Technology Literacy

The ability to independently and efficiently manipulate digital tools, software, or hardware to find, manage, and share information.

Virtual Self

The digital or assumed identity that an individual constructs and portrays within the online and virtual world.

Prehistoric Period

The era of communication existing before recorded history, relying on early tools, rock carvings, and traditional oral gestures.

Industrial Period

An era marked by economic and social changes where hand tools were replaced by power driven machinery, allowing early mass production of printed text.

Electronic Age

A period ushered in by inventions like the telegraph and television, allowing people to communicate instantaneously across long distances.

Information Age

The modern digital era characterized by a computer based economy where digital tools, networks, and internet connectivity dominate daily life.

Print Media

Materials limited to visual and physical communication, such as newspapers, books, magazines, and billboards.

Broadcast Media

Mass communication channels that utilize audio and audiovisual transmissions, including television programs, AM radio, and FM radio.

New Media

The latest digital forms of mass media, including computers, internet platforms, digital devices, video games, and interactive online spaces.

Format Radio

A specific radio structure common in FM programming that is customized to cater continuously to distinct musical tastes.

News Format Radio

A radio structure common in AM programming that is traditionally dominated by journalistic content, current events, and speech.

Indigenous Media

Formally known as community media, this refers to native forms of media created and managed by and for a specific local community using localized knowledge.

Modality

The baseline nature of a media message itself, such as text, audio, video, graphics, or animation.

Format

The underlying arrangement, architecture, or technical structure of data, categorized broadly into digital or analog.

Way of Transmitting

The physical wave transmission method used to send out a message, including electromagnetic waves, radio waves, or light waves.

Mass Media Form

The final distribution technology and channel used to convey a completed message to a mass audience, such as a newspaper, television, or mobile device.

Cyberbullying

A type of harassment or bullying done online through the sending of threats, sharing of private information, or posting of negative rumors.

Digital Divide

The socio economic gap that exists between different geographic areas or populations regarding their access to information and communication technology.

Pathological Internet Use

A condition where an individual uses the internet excessively to the point that it negatively impacts their real life responsibilities and well being.