Media & Information Literacy: Second Monthly Exam Reviewer

Lesson 1: Opportunities, Challenges, and Power of Media and Information

Opportunities:

❖ Journals

⮚ Publishes scientific articles concerning the results of research

in the field of media education.

❖ Broadcast Media

⮚ It involves electronically and simultaneously sending

information containing signals, print messages, and audio or
video content to a large group of recipients using television,
radio, newspapers, magazines, and digital media, including
the Internet, e-mails, and texts.

❖ Newsletter

⮚ It is a printed or electronic report containing news concerning

the activities of a business or an organization sent to its
members, customers, employees, or other subscribers.

Challenges/ Threats

1) Customer Scams
2) Information Leakage
3) Traffic Hijacking
4) Phishing and Malware
Power

1) The media inform people in general, give information, creates

political ideas, organize social action groups, and helps to shape the
public policy agendas and priorities.

2) The media play a role in political accountability, watching public

officials and institutions, and challenge them via reports, interviews,
debates, etc.

3) The press sometimes plays the role of a direct political actor; the
media reveals the government's plans that impact on the political
scene.

4) The media also play an accountability role concerning the private

sector and the non-governmental organizations, reporting their
every action in the news, and making sure that they do not harm the
public.

Media and Information in:

Economy
⮚ It embodies economic theoretical and practical financial questions
specific to media of all types. Of particular concern to media,
economics is the economic policies and practices of media
companies and disciplines, including journalism and the news
 industry, film production, entertainment programs, print, broadcast,
mobile communications, Internet, advertising, and public relations.

Education
⮚ Mass media are the educational medium for mass education.
Regardless of class, color, geographical, sociological, economic
diversities, mass media prove as an essential means for the school to
all. Humankind gets a great deal of information from the widespread
mass media like newspapers, TV, radio, magazines, journals, films,
etc. it is not surprising that hat mass media may substitute real
classroom teaching in the future.

Social
⮚ Social media is the means of mass communication that is used by
the public, in general, to interact with the rest of society. Some of the
popular social media are Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and
Google +, wherein people with a shared concern can interact with
other people.

Politics
⮚ Social media have rapidly increased in importance as a forum for
political activism in its different forms. Social media platforms
provide new ways to encourage citizens' engagement in civic life
where elections and electoral campaigns have a central role.

Risks
1) Other people can see anything you can do.
2) Keep the negativity to yourself.
3) Don't post sexual, religious, political, and graphic materials.
4) Never fight with anyone on social networking sites.

Abuses
⮚ Some examples of the abuses of media are cyberbullying, making a
phony account.

Opportunities

● Informing and keeping the mass up-to-date.

● Faster distribution of information
● Can easily communicate with one another

Challenges

● news or information that has no accurate source

● disclosing private information
● inappropriate advertisement and marketing to children
 Lesson 2: Current and Future Trends of Media and Information

MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

⮚ an interactive model for delivering content to interested users online

⮚ mostly offered by Universities & Personal Firms

⮚ a "distance-learning program" that can be taken through the

Internet by large numbers of people for additive learning

⮚ an online course that is offered by personal firms and universities, in

the main in America, for additional information and new learning
expertise

⮚ The number of students that can enroll for a specific course is no

limit.

What does MOOC stand for?

Massive
⮚ It means that many people are welcome to join MOOCs, there's no
limit of students who wish to join as long as they register before the
given deadline or before the start of the courses.
Open
⮚ It means anyone can join MOOCs regardless of academic
achievement, industry experience, or any other factors. As long as
you can understand the medium of instruction, you can join one.

Online
⮚ It means you are required to have a good internet connection to
access a MOOC. You can also collaborate with other learners
through online discussion boards or build an electronic portfolio (or
e-portfolio) to share resources. Hence, videos and documents are all
posted online.

Courses
⮚ It refers to the various different field of education disciplines or
subjects available. Content providers offer a list of courses
depending on your interest. You can enroll in any class from "Basics
of Cost Accounting" to"Programming Languages."

Purpose of MOOC

1) Higher Education
⮚ It is very important to remember that MOOCs don't seem to be the
same as formal education, whereby a student has to bear explicit
processes and ways like traditional registration,attendance in each
 session, and wearing prescribed uniforms. It is free. However, this
privilege does not mean that it compromises quality. It is more
about looking for the latest trends and issues about their respective
fields.

2) Workplace Connection
⮚ If someone taking the course isn't a student or not listed in an
exceedingly formal college, maybe he or she is already an expert.
MOOCs additionally offer opportunities for professionals to connect
with people who belong to identical field of experience. Sharing
knowledge about the latest advertising campaign approaches may
be shared by advertising professionals, hence, ensuring that they are
not left behind.

3) Lifelong Learning
⮚ Humans will ne'er be satisfied. Given this innate nature, it's
traditional for them to appear for a lot of, including information. as a
result of the course is on-line and free, likelihood is that, people are
a lot of inclined thereto owing to its convenience and practicality. If a
student of business administration starts investing knowledge
through MOOCs, then there is a chance of continuing this even if he
becomes a professional.
Advantage
1) No Tuition Fee
2) Open Access
3) Open Courses
4) Students can collaborate from different parts of the world.
5) Students can provide feedback on each other.
6) Some enthuasistic professors have found global sharing of
knowledge more appealing.

Disadvantage
1) Find it easy to Drop-out
2) Does not provide Active Feedback due to a Large Number of
Students
3) Technical Problems
4) Limited real-world Engagement