Media and Information Literacy Quiz

Media and Information Literacy

• Opportunities, Challenges, and Power of Media and Information (Part 1 and 2)
• Classification of social media into three dimensions: social presence, media richness, and self-presentation/self-disclosure
• Collaborative Projects (e.g., Wikipedia): Web sites allowing users to add, remove, and change text-based content. Social bookmarking applications enable group-based collection and rating of Internet links or media content. Blogs: Special types of websites that usually display date-stamped entries in reverse chronological order.

Challenges/Opportunities of Social Media

• Usually managed by one person but allows interaction with others by adding comments
• Content Communities: sharing of media content between users
• Social Networking Sites: applications enabling connections (personal info, profiles, instant emails and messages) including photos, videos, audio files, and blogs
• Virtual Game Worlds: platforms replicating a three-dimensional environment. Users follow strict rules in the context of a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game. Users have more freedom in choosing their behavior and essentially live a virtual life similar to their real life.

Other Challenges and Risks

• Age-appropriate content: Children need supervision when accessing information online.
• Illegal content (e.g., child pornography): National laws should prohibit access by children and young people.
• Lack of verification: Not everything online is true. Users should critically evaluate information.
• Incitement of harm: Websites promoting harmful behaviors (e.g., bullying, anorexia).
• Infringement of human rights: Online interactions could lead to defamation and misleading information.
• Inappropriate advertisement: Children are vulnerable to inappropriate advertisements (e.g., cosmetic surgery).
• Privacy: Information stored online can remain indefinitely.
• Copyright Infringement: Copying someone's work without permission is illegal.

Module 3 and 4: Ubiquitous Learning

• Ubiquitous learning is learning at any time, anywhere, using a computer or mobile device and the internet.
• The combination of social media and mobile technologies allows for ubiquitous learning.
• Key characteristics of ubiquitous learning: permanency, accessibility, immediacy, interactivity, situated instruction, and adaptability.
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer free online courses to a large number of people worldwide. Courses are designed after college and university courses with diverse learners.

Module 5, 6, and 7: Media and Information Literate Individual

• People acquire media and information literacies to survive in a world of alternative/misleading facts and fake news.
• Improved quality of life, greater political participation, better economic opportunities, improved learning environments and more cohesive social units occur through information literacy.
• Some examples of political participation include signing petitions, blogging about issues, volunteering for campaigns, and donating to causes.

Module 8: People Media

• People media refers to individuals involved in media use, analysis, evaluation, and production.
• Opinion leaders are highly exposed to media and actively use it, interpreting information for a broader audience.
• Citizen journalism means untrained people use technology to generate media content
• Social journalism is when journalists use social media to reach a wider audience.
• Crowdsourcing is getting contributions from a large group of people, particularly from the online community.

Module 9 and 10: Text Information and Media

• Text is any human-readable sequence of characters forming intelligible words.
• Formal text: Created and distributed by established institutions (e.g., publishing companies, news agencies). It undergoes extensive editing and often state censorship.
• Informal text: Based on personal opinions or viewpoints on various topics.
• Typefaces (fonts) are the digital formats representing document styles. Serif, sans-serif, slab serif, and script are common typefaces.

Module 11 and 12: Visual Information and Media

• Visual media include materials, programs, applications (photography, video, screenshots, infographics) used to help with learning.
• Visual media serves to gain attention, create meaning, and aid in the retention of information.
• Different visual media formats include GIFs, JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, and BMPs.
• Key visual design elements: lines, shapes, form, color, texture, space, and value.

Module 13: Audio Information and Media

• Audio is any recorded, transmitted or reproduced sound or media communication.
• Examples of audio formats: Radio broadcast, audio books, music, sound recordings, sound effects, and podcasts.
• Audio design principles include mixing, pace, transitions, and types of transitions (segue, cross-fade, V-fade, fade to black, waterfall).
• Key elements in audio design: dialogue, sound effects, music, and silence.

Module 14: Motion Information and Media

• Motion information and media use video and animation.
• Multimedia uses video, audio, and animation along with text and graphics.
• Good multimedia is clear, interesting, and accessible to various audiences.
• Selection criteria: purpose, target audience, audience’s attention, and the story being conveyed.
• Different motion media: animations, television, interactive videos, films, and documentaries.

Module 15: Manipulative Information and Media

• Manipulative media refers to media that is used to generate information – for teaching and learning.
• Manipulation can be formally or informally produced.
• Formally produced manipulative media is created by professionals in media companies.
• Informally produced manipulative media is created by non-specialists and can be available in various formats (e.g., websites, social media).
• Characteristics: activism, advertising, hoaxing, and propagandizing.

Module 16, 17, and 18: Multimedia Information and Media

• Multimedia uses a combination of different media forms (text, graphics, audio, video).
• Different media elements and formats are used in different multimedia sources.
• Examples: text, graphics, audio, and motion and video are used in a variety of multimedia sources such as documentaries, books, advertisements, etc.