Chapter 1: Introduction to Media and information Literacy

Lesson 4: Types of Media: Print, Broadcast, New Media

Content Standards

The learners demonstrate an understanding of how representations are constructed in

diverse media types and how they converged.

Performance Standards

The learners shall provide an outline of media convergence in different areas by identifying the
different platforms and the convergence therein.

Exercise No. 1: Classify the terms below. Write the terms in their corresponding columns.

Books newspaper television Youtube

social network radio memeography newsletter

journals film/movie magazines

Print Broadcast New Media

Exercise No. 2 Answer the following questions.

1. Describe how new technologies have led to the convergence of traditional and new media.
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2. Explain how media convergence creates new opportunities for interaction.

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3. Describe the use of one or two forms of new media to share knowledge and information on a current
issue in society.
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4. Explain how a person could be portrayed in public in the age of media convergence.
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