Media and Information Literacy

Evolution of Traditional to New Media     What is Traditional Media ? • Traditional media   refer to the time-honored, conventional means of mass  communication, such as street theater and puppetry as practiced by various global communities and cultures, or embodied in local custom or lore, generally involving the use of storytelling and especially communication arts that make up a distinctive culture, representative of a traditional way of life.          What is New Media ? •New Media   refer specifically to present times and also to forms of communication  that are new. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the term was used to refer to the j invention and application of new techniques in the media. New media are now being  followed by postmodern media, which relate to mass communication that reacts against  earlier modernist principles by reintroducing traditional or classical...

Media                      In general, "media" refers to various means of communication. For example, television, radio, and the newspaper are different types of media. The term can also be used as a collective noun for the press or news reporting agencies. In the computer world, "media" is also used as a collective noun, but refers to different types of data storage options. Computer media can be hard drives, removable drives (such as Zip disks), CD-ROM or CD-R discs, DVDs, flash memory, USB drives, and yes, floppy disks. For example, if you want to bring your pictures from your digital camera into a photo processing store, they might ask you what kind of media your pictures are stored on. Are they on the flash memory card inside your camera or are they on a CD or USB drive? For this and many other reasons, it is helpful to have a basic understanding of what the different types of media are. Activit...