COR 016 - Ben

New Political Media

-To create, disseminate, and exchange political content
- Altered the ways in which government institutions operate and political leaders communicate
- Transformed the political media system and redefined the role of journalists
- Redefined the way elections are contested and now citizens engage in politics

Symbiotic

- The relationship between legacy media and new media is what?

Legacy Media

- They rely on new media sources to meet the increasing demand for content

New Media

- They rely on their legacy counterparts to gain legitimacy and popularize their content

Post-Truth Media

- It was prominent during 2016 presidential elections
- Media accounts were infused with misinformation

The rise of fake news

- Most extreme illustration of the post-truth reporting
- Referred to news parodies and satire

Literacy

- Ability to identify, understand, interpret, using printed and written materials

Media

- Physical objects used to communicate with, through radio, television, computers
- Also refers to physical objects used to communicate messages

Media Literacy

- Ability to access, analyze, evaluate media in a variety of forms

Information

- Covers processed data, knowledge derived from study

Information Literacy

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

Technology Literacy

- Ability to appropriately, and effectively use technical skills/tools

Media and Information Literacy

- Enables people to interpret and make informed judgements as users of information and media

Improved quality of life

- Can evaluate information, more job opportunities

Greater political participation

- Politically engaged, active, smart citizen

Better economic opportunities

- Economically aware, greater chance of employment

Improved learning environment

- Increased educational interest

More cohesive social units

- Able to identify different groups of people

Prehistoric Age

Communication: Traditional papers and writing materials
Equipment used to store information: Traditional papers and writing materials, Cave writings
Equipment used to broadcast information: Traditional papers and writing materials, Cave writings

Industrial Age

Communication: Paper and Pen, typewriter
Equipment used to store information: Printing press or books
Equipment used to broadcast information: Printing press or books

Electronic Age

Communication: Telegraph, Telegram, Telephone, and Computers
Equipment used to store information: Printing press or books, Computers
Equipment used to broadcast information: Printing press or books, Computers, Radio

New Age

Communication: Mobile Phones, Smart phones, Wearable Technology, Social Media
Equipment used to store information: Printing press or books, Digital books, Mobile phones, Smart phones, Wearable technology, Social media
Equipment used to broadcast information: Printing press or books, Television, Radio, Digital books, Mobile phones, Smart phones, Wearable technology, Social media

Print

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

80s and 90s

- Generation where print media was the only media of entertainment

Broadcast

- Most expedient means to transmit information to the widest possible audience

Internet

- Get the news a lot more often than traditional news

Media Convergence

- Merging of the different types of mass media

Smartphone

- Most relevant example of media convergence

1. Instant availability of news
2. Producers can specifically target an audience
3. Audience has also become the creator
4. Broadened the limitations of traditional media
5. Cost of digital marketing has become economical

What are the most important advantages of Media Convergence?

Indigenous Media

- Defined as forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and circulated by indigenous peoples

Library

- It is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes

Online Source

- It is a material you find online

Reliability of information

- Information is said to be reliable if it can be verified and evaluated.
1. Check the author
2. Check the date of publication or of update
3. Check for citations
4. Check the domain or owner of the site or page
5. Check the site design and writing style

Accuracy of information

- Refers to the closeness of the report to the actual data
1. Look for facts
2. Cross-reference with other sources to check for consistency
3. Determine the reason for writing and publishing the information
4. Check for advertising

Value of information

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

Authority of the source

- Much of the information we gather daily do not come from a primary source but are passed on through secondary sources

Timeliness

- Reliability, accuracy, and value of information may vary based on the time

Media codes

- Are like the building blocks of all the media around us
- Generally have an agreed meaning or connotation to their audience

Conventions

- Are expected ways in which codes are organized in a product

1. Form Conventions
2. Story Conventions
3. Genre Conventions

What are the three types of conventions?

Form conventions

- These are the certain ways we expect types of media codes to be arranged

Story conventions

- These are common narrative structures and understanding that are common in a story telling media products

Genre conventions

- Points to the common use of tropes, characters, settings or themes in a particular type of medium
- Can be formal or thematic

Messages

- The information sent from a source to a receiver

Audience

- The group of consumers for whom a media message was constructed as well as anyone else who is exposed to the message

Producers

- People engaged in the process of creating and putting together media content to make a finished media product

Broadcasting
Film
Television
Commercial

Media producers’ job comes with a large amount of responsibility and in fields on:

Stakeholders

- Libraries, archives, museums, internet and other relevant information providers

1. Technical Codes
2. Written Codes
3. Audio Codes
4. Symbolic Codes

What are the types of codes in media?

Technical codes

- These include techniques and methods like camera angle, shot type, and lighting

Written codes

- Some examples of this are headlines, captions, titles, and writing styles

Audio codes

- These includes codes related to sound

Symbolic codes

- These are codes that are used to convey a symbolic rather than a literal meaning

Plagiarism

- Means using someone else’s words or ideas without properly crediting the original author

Copyright

- Is a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression

Everyone

- Is a copy right owner

Copyright law

- In here, there are a lot of different types of works, including paintings, photographs, illustrations, musical compositions, etc.

Copyright ownership

- Can also come from contracts like assignments or from other types of transfers like wills and bequests

Fair use

- It is the right to use a copyrighted work under certain conditions without permission of the copyright owner
- It is actually an affirmative defense to a claim of copyright infringement.

Section 107 of the Copyright Act

Under what section of copyright act provides that fair use of a work “for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching” is not and infringement of copyright?

Intellectual property

- Refers to the creation of the mind, such as inventions, literary, and artistic works, designs and symbols, names and images used in commerce.

Commentary and criticisms

- If you were commenting upon or critiquing a copyrighted work

Digital divide

- Describes the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology and those that don’t

Computer addiction

- Can result from people using it repeatedly as their main stress reliever instead of having a variety of ways to cope with negative events and feelings

Cyberbullying

- It is bullying with the use of digital technologies

Digital footprint

- A record that can prove useful and provide evidence to help stop the abuse

Carpal tunnel syndrome

- It is the pain, numbness and burning in the hands that can radiate up the wrists, elbows and shoulders

Netiquette

- It is a portmanteau of net and etiquette
- It refers to the socially acceptable rules of online conduct
- Helps prevent identity theft