Media and Information Sources PDF

# Media and Information Sources There are three main sources of information: indigenous knowledge, libraries, and the internet. In many instances, sources of information are also classified as primary, secondary, and tertiary. We need to take some fact-checking, which includes the following: - **A...

# Media and Information Sources There are three main sources of information: indigenous knowledge, libraries, and the internet. In many instances, sources of information are also classified as primary, secondary, and tertiary. We need to take some fact-checking, which includes the following: - **Authenticity** - refers to the information's originality or legitimacy. - **Validity** - may include accuracy and precision of information. - **Reliability** - refers to information's relevance whether it is up-to-date and reliable. ## Information Sources **Indigenous** is a native, local, originating, or produced naturally in a particular region and locality. - **Indigenous Knowledge** - is unique to a special culture or society, most often it is not written down. The transmission of information is through local channels or forms. It is a means by which the culture is preserved, handed down, and adapted. ### Characteristics of Indigenous Knowledge - Oral tradition of communication. - Store information in memories. - Information exchange is face to face. - Information is contained within the border of the community. - **Indigenous Media** - can be defined as forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and circulated by indigenous peoples around the globe as vehicles for communication. #### Forms of Indigenous Media 1. Folk or Traditional Media 2. Gatherings and Social Organizations 3. Direct Observation 4. Records (written, carved, oral) 5. Oral Instruction ## Library A library is a place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (such as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films) are kept for use but not for sale. ### Types of Library - **Academic Library** - serves colleges and universities. - **Public Library** - serves cities and towns, of all types. - **School Library** - served students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. - **Special Library** - specialized environments, such as hospitals, corporations, museums, the military, private business, and the government. ## Internet The internet is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. There is a lot of information on the internet and search engines make this information easier to find. ## Other Classifications of Information Sources **A. Primary Sources of Information** - refers to "original materials". These are materials from a certain period of time that have not been filtered, modified through analysis, interpretation, or evaluation. - **Artifact** - refers to something made, or created by humans, such as a tool, or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest. - **Diary** - is a record with distinct entries organized by date, reporting on daily activities, or other periods. - **Patent** - this is the granting of a right to an inventor by a sovereign authority. - **Audio - video recording** Other examples of primary sources include e-mails, interviews, journal articles, letters, minutes of meetings, conferences, and symposia, newspaper articles, original documents (e.g., birth certificate, marriage certificate), photographs, records of organizations, research survey results, speeches, works of art, literature, architecture, and music, and websites. **B. Secondary Sources of Information** - written after an original product, usually aim to give reflection or analysis. Secondary sources are not proof, but rather explanation on, and discussion of evidence. Secondary sources may be classified as index, survey, and reference type. - **Indexes** - are typically found as one or more individual volumes at the end of a set. Examples are index, bibliography, indexing periodicals, and abstracting periodicals. - **Survey type**- involves the product of an examination, or description of someone, or something. Examples are review, treaties, and monographs. - **Reference type** - consists of materials collected from others' works, such as encyclopedia, dictionary, handbook, manual, and critical tables **C. Tertiary Sources of Information** Tertiary sources involve information that collects and organizes primary and secondary sources. Tertiary sources include bibliographies of bibliographies, directories and yearbooks, guides to literature, and lists of research in progress.