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• Media and Information Literacy involves skills and competencies for individuals to engage with media and information providers.
• It develops critical thinking and lifelong learning skills for socialization and active citizenship.
• "Communication" originates from the Latin term "COMMUNICARE," meaning "to share" or "to divide out."
• The Latin word "communis" means "working together," highlighting humans as social beings.
• Communication is a natural and essential aspect of human life.
• "Media" is the plural form of "medium," referring to any physical object used to communicate messages.
• Media helps spread information in different forms and devices.
• Information and communication are intertwined and central to the concept of media.
• "Literacy" involves identifying, understanding, interpreting, creating, communicating, and computing using printed and written materials.
• A literate person is well-versed, erudite, conversant, informed, widely read, enlightened, and well-grounded in a particular subject.
• Functional Literacy is the classic literacy teaching individuals how to read, write, and perform numeric calculations.
• Media Literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in various forms, empowering citizens to engage with traditional and new technologies.

Information

• Information is processed data, knowledge, experience, instruction, signals, or symbols.
• Information Literacy is the ability to recognize when information is needed, locate, evaluate, and communicate it effectively in various formats.

Technology

• Technology deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
• Technology Literacy is an individual's ability to use technological tools responsibly, appropriately, and effectively.
• Computer Literacy involves the skills, attitudes, and knowledge to understand and operate the basic functions of information and communication technologies, including devices and tools, encompassing hardware and software literacy.

The Evolution of Media

• Evolution of Media includes the Pre-industrial Age, Industrial Age, Electronic Age and the Information Age

Pre-industrial Age (before 1700s)

• People discovered fire, developed paper from plants and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron

• Cave painting (35,000bc) was discovered in Southern France and shows evidence of symbols etched on the walls

• Clay tablets (2400bc) was found and had some form of symbolic expressions that make up the ancient language

• Code Of Hammurabi dating back to 1772 ВСЕ is the most important discovery and contains written laws and codes of Babylonian king named Hammurabi.

• Papyrus (2500bc) was discovered by ancient Egyptians and eventually led to the advent of paper

• Acta diurna (130bc) were daily roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette and daily acts or daily public records

• Dibao (2nd century) Earliest and oldest newspaper in the world

• Woodblocks printing press (220ad) was developed when Chinese and Korean crafts people “wrote” letters on textile or paper using letters carved onto wood blocks.

• Movable Type of Printing Press was invented by German Goldsmith Johann Gutenberg

Industrial Age (1700-1930s)

• People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products.
• Newspaper- London Gazette (1640)
• Typewriter (1800)
• Daguerreotype System (1839)
• Telegraph (1844)
• Telephone (1876)
• Phonograph (1877)
• Gramophone System
• Kinetoscope
• Celluloid Film And Kodak Camera (1888)
• Cinematographe
• Motion Picture Photography/Projection (1890)
• Commercial Motion Pictures (1913)
• Motion Pictures With Sound (1926)
• Television
• Daguerreotype System was invented by Frenchman Louis Daguerre
• Celluloid Film & Kodak Camera was invented by George Eastman in 1888 making photography accessible to the masses
• Telegraph By Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
• Telephone was invented by Alexander Grahambell in 1876
• Phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, it was a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound
• Gramophone was invented by Emile Berliner in 1887, it played back music recorded on flat discs or records
• Kinetoscope, a single viewer film system invented by Thomas Edison
• Cinematographe, invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere and had the capacity of a film projector to project the film onto a big screen
• Motion Picture/Projection 1890, also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected on rapid succession onto screen by means of light.

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)

• People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers.
• In this age, long distance communication became more efficient.
• Transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.
• Television (1941)
• Large electronic computers
• EDSAC (1949) Electronic delay storage automatic calculator
• UNIVAC 1 (1951) Universal automatic computer
• Mainframe computers IBM 704
• Personal computers
• Ohp, Icd projectors

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

• The internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network.
• Voice, image, sound and data are digitalized.
• Web browsers is a software application for accessing information on the world wide web
• Blogs is a discussion or informational website published on the world wide web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries.
• Social networks dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.
• Microblogs is a social media site to which a user makes short, frequent posts.
• Augmented reality/virtual reality enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (such as a smartphone camera)
• Videochat is a computer-generated simulation in which a person can interact within an artificial 3D environment using electronic devices, such as special goggles with a screen or gloves fitted with sensors.
• Search Engines
• Portable Computers
• Smartphones
• Wearable Technology also known as "wearables", is a category of electronic devices that can be worn as accessories
• Print Media consisting of paper and ink, reproduced in a printing process that is traditional or mechanical and also known as the PRESS
• Broadcast Media refers to media such as radio and television that reach target audiences using airwaves as the transmission medium and they are considered as "household media"
• New Media Includes contents organized and distributed on digital platforms available using different forms of electronic communication made possible through the use of computer technology.

Media Convergence.

• Media Convergence means meeting at a point, joining, uniting, intersecting, merging,connecting and coincide.
• Allows media texts to be produced and distributed on multiple media devices, allows media texts to transform different kinds of media into digital code, which is then accessible by a range of devices.
• There is a co-existence traditional and new media.