Media Information Literacy Quiz

Media Information Literacy

• Media channels are ways to transmit messages (e.g., radio, television, films).
• Information is processed data or knowledge from experience, instructions, or symbols.
• Technology applies scientific knowledge for practical human use.
• Communication is the sharing of meaning, transferring information between people or places.
• Communication components include: source (sender), message, channel, and receiver.
• Feedback is the receiver's response sent back to the source.
• Context is the setting and expectations of communication.
• Environment is the physical and psychological atmosphere.
• Interference disrupts the intended meaning of the message.
• Communication models (e.g., Lasswell's) illustrate the communication process.
• Shannon-Weaver's model incorporates noise (interruption) into the process.
• Types of communication include: intrapersonal (self-communication), interpersonal (between two people), group, and public.
• Mass communication is the transmission of information to many people through media.
• Media and information influence the world by making it feel smaller, increasing convenience, shaping public opinion.

Literacy

• Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, and communicate using various mediums (e.g., printed, digital).
• Information literacy involves recognizing when information is needed, locating, evaluating, and communicating it in different formats.
• Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create various media forms.
• Technology literacy is the ability to use technological tools efficiently and responsibly.
• Technological devices include digital cameras, microphones, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

Evolution of Media

• Pre-industrial/Historic age includes cave paintings, clay tablets, and early writing.
• Industrial age involved printing press, newspapers, telegraphs, motion pictures, and typewriters.
• Electronic age includes transistor radios, large computers, television, personal computers, and overhead projectors.
• New age/Information age (1900s-Present) includes the internet, personal computers, social networks, mobile devices, and digital communication.

Media Convergence

• Media convergence combines communication, computing, and content in the digital world.
• Media tools merge to produce and distribute information through digitalization.
• Media and information tools like smartphones, computers, and the internet are convergent media.

Media and Information Disorders

• Misinformation is false information people share unintentionally.
• Disinformation is intentionally false information spread to mislead.
• Malinformation is real information that is misused to cause harm.
• Examples of misinformation include false connections, misleading contexts, manipulated contexts, fabricated content, and fabricated websites.
• Information disorders are ways the information environment is polluted with fake, out-of-context, or weaponized content which disrupts individuals and entire communities.

Media and Information Sources

• Libraries are places to access literary, musical, artistic, and reference materials.
• Library types include school, academic, public, and specialized libraries.
• The internet is a global computer network with varied information and communication resources.

Intellectual Property

• Intellectual property rights (IP) protect creations of the mind (e.g., inventions, literary works, designs).
• Patents are property rights for investors.
• Copyrights protect the rights of original creators for reproduction and distribution of materials.
• Trademarks are symbols that identify and distinguish goods from other products.
• Trade secrets are confidential processes or practices.

Ethical Use of Media and Information

• Unintentional or criminal misuse of intellectual property rights leads to infringement, plagiarism (falsely representing others' work).
• The ethical use of media and information requires acknowledging the original creator's work.
• Fair use allows certain types of use of copyrighted materials, including commentary, criticism, reporting, and research.