Media and Information Languages

Codes- a communication system which contains elements that have a set of agreed rules and can be decoded to illicit
meanings.

Three Types of Media Codes

1. Technical Codes – use equipment to convey a story and employ techniques using the camera, framing, lighting,
and many others.
2. Symbolic Codes – pertains to objects, body language, setting, clothing and color.
3. Written or Audio - Visual Codes - use captions, headlines, speech bubbles and style of language.

Examples of Different Types of Media Codes

WRITTEN CODES TECHNICAL CODES SYMBOLIC CODES

 Speech bubbles  Layout  Colours
 Font style  Sequencing  Objects
 Upper or lower Case  Framing  Body language
 Angle  Clothing
 Lines  Setting
 Shapes

What is Plagiarism?

Deliberate Plagiarism
 Rewriting from books or articles
 Copying and pasting from web pages and online sources to create a patchwork writing
 Buying, downloading or borrowing a paper

Accidental Plagiarism
 Not knowing when & how to die
 Not knowing how to paraphrase or summarize
 Not knowing what common knowledge is
 Recycling an old paper.