Untitled

• The document contains study notes on the opportunities, challenges, and power of media and information, including current and future trends.

Informational (Social Media and the Web)

• The World Wide Web is a primary source of information due to its multimedia format, enriching information through text, audio, image, and video.
• Social media is a widely accessed source of information.

Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media

• Collaborative projects enable joint and simultaneous content creation by multiple end-users, resulting in better outcomes than individual efforts.
• Social media can be used for virtual complaints about businesses, potentially damaging their online reputation.
• Social networking sites' popularity is high, especially among younger internet users.
• Content communities can be an attractive contact channel for firms.

Cybercrime

• Cybercrime is a major challenge in media and information due to the vast amount of information available to the audience.
• The Department of Justice defines cybercrime as a crime committed with or through information and communication technologies like radio, television, cellular phone, computer, and network.
• The 2001 Budapest Convention on Cybercrime lists criminal offenses, including offenses against confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer data and systems

The 2001 Budapest Convention on Cybercrime lists the following criminal offenses in cyberspace:

• Offenses against the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer data and systems
• Computer-related offenses
• Content-related offenses
• Offenses related to infringements of copyright and related rights

Economic (Business and Marketing)

• Social media can connect business owners with target consumers for free, lowering marketing costs, but it also has disadvantages.
• Prioritizing customer connection can be time-consuming, requiring active social media engagement and monitoring of competitors.

Educational

• Media and information have radically impacted education, making learning easier and faster.
• Advancements in media tools and information dissemination have made learning and education resources more open and free for public use.
• Distance or online learning is a growing trend where students do not have to attend classes physically, but rather register to online courses or programs and attend from home.
• The term MOOC was coined during the course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge" by Dave Cormier from the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada); it is an online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web.

Political (Politics and Governance)

• Media provides a platform for political discussions, assisting the working of a democratic system through free speech and unrestricted public debate.
• Politics can influence media, as powerful political figures and the government can manipulate or influence media content.
• Propaganda involves using communication to influence an audience and further an agenda, potentially leading to incomplete, twisted, or selectively presented information.

Social (Citizen Engagement and Social Change)

• Citizen Journalism trends has been brought about by advancements in technology and the fast and widespread dissemination of information.
• Citizen journalism is journalism conducted by people who are not professional journalists but who disseminate information using Web sites, blogs, and social media.
• Social marketing involves using business and marketing techniques to encourage people to adopt behaviors that will lead to better physical and mental health, eventually changing society.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

• MOOCs are defined as a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance.
• MOOCs are a revolutionary approach to education that transitions from a physical setting to a virtual set-up.
• MOOCs involve a kind of learning that is facilitated online, breaking the norm of having to physically go to traditional schools or universities for higher education.
• MOOCs utilize information technologies like analytics to help instructors evaluate their students' learning
• MOOCs emphasizes connectedness and are asynchronous, open-access, and web-based.
• To be a MOOC, a course typically requires the following:
  • Massive access for a large number of students
  • Open with no admission process or qualifications
  • Online, done remotely via the internet
  • Inclusion of learning objectives to be achieved by students

Advantages of MOOCs

Flexible Personalized and customizable learning paths Extended community Cutting-edge curriculum Greater access to high-quality instruction

Disadvantages of MOOCs

A potential for a disconnected and/or boring experience A mismatch with personal learning styles High degree of required self-motivation and self-discipline Lack of direction Undetermined and questionable quality Mixed reception in the job market

Wearable Technology

• Wearable technology is a general term encompassing smart devices worn on the body. Wearable Technology Characteristics:
• Preforms computer-related Tasks like laptops and mobile phones
• Provides sensory and scanning features
• Has communication and allows the wearer to access real-time information
• Date-input Capabilities
• Local Storage

3D Environment

• 3D refers to anything that has a width, height, and depth, like the physical world
• The technological concept of a 3D environment explores imitating and simulating the physical world through media.
• Examples include computer animations in video games and TV shows, 3D films, and 3D printers

Ubiquitous Learning

• u-Learning is a kind of e-Learning experience implying a learning which is connected across all the stages in which we play out our lives
• Learning occurs in the home, workplace, playground, library, museum, and nature center, and in our daily interactions with others.
• Compared to mobile Learning and e-Learning, it is context-based and more adaptive.

Paperless Society

• Involves Faster Transactions and greener mechanisms
• Practice in that society is viable and useful
• A society in where communication and transactions electronically or digitally
• All forms of printed communication have become obsolete