STEM 4_GROUP 4

 Media is basically like a person, it is evolving and growing to become better. And as time goes on, it will continue to prosper and innovate. Every day, fascinating things happen all throughout the world. Every day is jam-packed with information. People learn about the current events by reading newspapers and periodicals, conversing on the phone, or watching television or listening to the radio, or surfing the internet. And it clearly shows that the printed, broadcasted, and new media plays not only an important role in our lives, but also in our society. With the printed media, people were able to draw and write their traditions and culture, thus the following generation was aware. With the broadcast media, everyone from around the world were updated from the happenings of their nation, and of the world. Now with new media, we can speak with people in our neighborhoods or around the world in real time thanks to technology, surf the internet for unlimited information, and entertain ourselves. This invention not only keeps us linked, but it also has the potential to make our lives safer and healthier.

 As information progressed and changed, society came along with it. The relevance between the two (Information Literacy and the Social Era) will contribute not only to a specific amount of people but to those who will be needing it in the future as well. The people we are talking about might be by students, adults, workers, and many more who needs them. Thanks to being an information literate, we can identify and solve problems in this social era by using certain types of information that can help us recognize biases, non-context texts and effectively use information around us. This can also be relevant because we can use information to create jobs and give endless opportunities to people that doesn’t have a sustainable job or to those who weren’t able to attain education. As we release reliable information in a media, we can create a community that can trust us with reliable information, and here, social era comes in to the frame along with information literacy, because information can be passed down, thus leading us to a better understanding with one another.

Editorial Cartoon “Media and Government: A Love-Hate Relationship”

As time progressed, these two had a conflict to the point that both sides would fight each other through media, and that’s concerning because yet again a lot of people are being manipulated since most of the people now are using media, hence this will result to people posting their opinions on social media where we call them netizens today. Although politicians and the government uses media to do some campaigns, warnings, advisories and open up communication to a whole different level, government views media as a source to gain money as well but when it comes to issues like the opinion of every individual then it creates a problem. For example, ads that promotes them; this can be abused and hence manipulate people to vote for them. They can also abuse and change information given to the society as a whole to benefit themselves, and then the media strikes back by giving ill comments about them which tenses up the two institutions. We should remember the saying “Think before you click”, it will help people to decide whether to post their opinion on social media where it can affect a lot of people in general, so let’s just respect each other because the government can’t lead it’s people to the right path without the support of its people, hence it needs a helping hand and that is the media.

 As we study media and seek accurate information let's take the opportunity to express ourselves in media and show the reality what’s really going on so the people who needs this information can be helped and be turned into a media and information literate. Also as being a media and information literate we should correct those people that releases false information in media and in information purposes so we can establish a healthy society within that specific media. When you want to become a social media it is not necessary to memorize the facts that we see in it, rather we have to learn, to be able to ask the right questions on what you are currently listening to, reading and to be a person that is information literate one must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, and evaluate the validity. Besides the things that were mentioned above, a person may ask “what could be the characteristics of a media and information literate individual “One must have the ability to understand the purpose, goals, aims, and is able to create media. To participate in a digital society, one must be able to utilize, comprehend, investigate, create, communicate, and think critically about information and media. This is why it is important to become an individual that is Information and media Literate.