The Opportunities, Challenges, and Power of Media and Information: Media controversies
Media controversies
Stereotyping
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The Opportunities, Challenges, and Power of Media and Information
Economics of media: Ratings and Revenues
The economics of media can be explained in the simple equation Ratings= Revenues. As a commercial industry, the media earns profit through advertisement. Advertisers pay for air-time or ad-space in media platforms to reach or to promote their goods or services to the media’s audience. Advertisers are more likely to invest if there is a high volume of consumers patronizing the media programs or content or if their target market is among those consumers.
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The Media and Information Literate Individual
Enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information and media, as well as to become skillful creators and producers of information and media messages in their own right.
Media and information improve quality of life
There is no denying the extent of how the media and information age has drastically improved the lives of people. Communication has been made easier. Information has become widely accessible. Conducting research has become more convenient. All these and more are enjoyed by media literate individuals and prove just how much the quality of life has improved thanks to media and information.
Media and information for greater political participation
The Current and Future Trends of Media and Information
Massive Open Online Content and its Implications
Massive Open Online Content (MOOC) is defined by Educause as a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance. It can be characterized by the following:
a. A revolutionary approach to education that veers away from the physical to the virtual
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The Legal, Ethical, and Societal Issues in Media and Information: The Digital Divide, Addiction, and Bullying
The Digital Divide, Addiction, and Bullying
Digital Divide
Benjamin Company defines Digital divide as the disparities in access to telephones, personal computers, and the internet across certain demographic groups. Different segments have varying levels of access to digital developments due to a number of factors. This can include but are not limited to, race, gender, age, employment, income, location, and religion.