Media and Information Literacy

COMBAT DIGITAL DIVIDE

       
             If you ask people to define digital divide, most of them would answer that it has to do with those who have access to technology and those who don't.
        For me, even as technology becomes more affordable to us and Internet access seems increasingly, a "digital divide" between rich and poor remains. The rich and educated are still more likely than others to have good access to digital, maybe I'm the next generation all of us can access to technology and we don't have any problems of digital divide.


COMBAT DIGITAL ADDICTION 
 
      
                 Do you get anxious if you don't have your mobile device in your hand? Do you have play games in your device or computer? Do have tablet, smartphones, smart television, an iPod and GPS? Do you have social accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other networks?
        Technology can be helpful in providing information and enjoyment but overused of it and addiction to technology can cause serious issues to your relationship, your job and your health.
         If you can't control your addiction in technology by yourself, you may needed advises by your friends, family or bonding outside with someone just to make your time not always on internet, don't take it seriously because it may cause to your health problems.

COMBAT CYBER BULLYING 

        
                Cyber bullying is the one of the digital technology with intent to offend humiliate, threaten, harass or to abuse somebody. Any can be come a recipient of Cyber Bullying. In fact, it is documented that a lot of your favorites celebrities and role models also experienced cyber bullying. Internet is great and you have to use a bit of common sense will help to keep you safe.
          Think before you post because people can easily misunderstand what you say if you're not careful how to put it or get to know how to use privacy setting. Think carefully before accepting friend requests. Facebook is now asking you to decides each time you post.
          Cyber bullying is bullying end it hurt. Think twice before you click and send, have fun but don't offend people. It's easy to forget that jokes don't always work online.


 ETHICAL USE OF MEDIA  AND  INFORMATION  

       
               Should we share that unflattering photo of our friend on Facebook? it is okay to download a song and we post it have rights to? Is this news or gossip? The online world constantly calls upon us to make ethical decision like these.
         While this questions challenging for adults, imagine how tricky they must be for young people who are still developing the cognitive skills required for ethical thinking.
          In the past adults have played an important role in helping young people with ethical decisions. But when it comes to internet spaces, kids got there first, and adults are largely absent from the online world where children and youth need ethical guide the most.

     
  OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN MEDIA AND                                    INFORMATION 

           
                There are many opportunities and challenges in media and information, opportunities like if you want to success your business plan, internet can help you to get information on how to handle your business and the others are using websites to be sure that there products will be known by advertisement. Some opportunities in media and information are you can in online business, you can easy to get information and others.
           It is very useful to us especially in our education we can access to the Internet to do researches and it can be gathered more data/information using Internet, but their are some challenges in Media and information cause of the misunderstanding in social media, someone bashing your post because they don't like it or you accidentally put down words that they misunderstood. People you meet in chat rooms or on social networks may not telling the truth - are they really who they say they are? You should never share personal
Information like your address or phone number or arrange to meet up without talking to your career first. If you want to share something private with someone, ask yourself " Can I really trust them to keep it private?" Once it's gone, you've lost control and if this will happen to you the most important is you know how to deal with it.




by: Rohaina S. Acmad

“Defying Digital Divide, Digital Addiction and Cyber bullying"

Digital divide

          What is digital divide? How can we strive against it? Who are the affected people in it? What are the factors why did digital divide happen?

          Digital divide it is the gap between the people who a internet access and to the people who doesn't have internet access. Mostly the affected people in this situation are the people who doesn't have any internet access because they can’t afford to have an access to the internet and According to Aleph Molinari there are three main factors why the Digital Divide happens:

•  Lack of Access due to affordability, 
• Lack of knowledge on how to use the technology 
• Lack of knowledge of the benefits of the technology. 

We can downgrade digital divide by: 

•  Reducing the cost in connecting internet in houses, 
• The government should make a law that internet is accessible to all public places, 
• NGO and LGU's perpetrate a forum about the benefits and how to use new technology in rural places.
• Government should provide some computer to schools and it should be open to all student for their needs.

Digital Addiction

                Digital addiction is the ineptitude to control your hanker in using digital-age technology like computers and smartphones. You can felt perturbation when you are far from your smartphone it’s like you cannot live without those gadgets and it can sway your daily work or routine in your life. Mostly teenager and those non-working people are the one who is very affected in this case, example when you are addicted at this certain game (like pokemon go) you keep playing and finding pokemon all day.

              
               We can obviate digital addiction by: 

• Set a limited time for computer and smartphone application, 
• Make copies of the information you need, 
• Immerse yourself with outside activity like sports, hiking and adventure, 
• Hang out with friends and plan some family night out, 
• Denigrate your technology usage, use only your smartphones and computer when you need it
• Set aside your smartphones, Laptop and computers for a while.

Cyberbullying

            
             Cyberbullying is to threaten, harass, sending mean message, making fun of a person or to intimidate a person through the use of computers, social media and smartphones; it is also the act of bullying through the use of internet and social networking sites with an anonymous person. 
            Any one can commit cyberbullying but mostly teenagers are the who is very known in this cases. According to Sam laird published article on Mashable Life 42% of teenagers with technology access report being cyberbullied over the past year and  69% of teens that own their own computer or smart phone, 80% are active on social media. A simple message, a simple status or calling of names but it can trigger up a million emotions that can lead to stress then depression and then death. 

         To preclude cyberbullying we must: 

• Think positive, 
• Talked to a trusted person or a elder about your case, 
• Save some evidence that you were being cyber bullied, 
• Think before you post, 
• Set privacy controls in your account/s, 
• Log out your account on public computer like internet café (Protect your account), 
• Be a friend not a by stander(Take some action), 
• Don’t requite.

Advocate Ethical use of Media and Information
           First let me define the word "ethical", according to Vocabulary.com dictionary ethical means that it describes a person's behavior as right in the moral sense - truthful, fair, and honest. Base on the given definition it only means that ethical use of media and information signify the proper way/s and behavior of a person when using media and gathering information. For me to attain our pretension when using media and gathering information we should be a media literate person or individual. A media literate individual has the capability to analyze, understand and critiques a media.
     Here are some proper behavior and way/s of person when using media and gathering information :

• A person shouldn't use another person's work or in a person should not plagiarize.
• He/she should know how to critique and appraise a media 
• In social media you should be careful of what you were posting and always remember "Think before you click"
• In social media be careful of who you add up in your friends.
• Look for credible, authoritative sources.
• Look for consensus.

Opportunities and Challenges Of Media and Information

       Opportunities and Challenges these words we cannot only encounter them in real life but also we can also stumble them in the virtual world. In real life when we say opportunities many people would noble it without hesitation and when we say challenges it would be a a problem we need to solve but in the virtual world it just the same.

Opportunities :

• It can help the people to make there work easy and fast,
•  They can gather information in a click of an hand,
•  They can be updated in everyday news 
• They can connect people around the world.
• Business man can easily advertise there products.
• It can serves as watchdog in our governement

Challenges:

• Many people can misuse the purpose of internet(like watching non-sense things like pornography)
•  Students lose focus on there studies because they have more time in playing video games.
• People can be invective to internet.
• Copyright fraud
• Illegal content (like pornography)
• People become independent in internet.

These are just some opportunities and challenges that we may encounter in media and information. 

Thank you for reading at my blog :)

                                                                                                      -PHILLINE  PALACA

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