TYPES OF MEDIA: Print, Broadcast and New Media

DAY 7 || 11/29/2017

This meeting is the only meeting that we have for this whole week and today we discussed the different types of media mainly print media, broadcast media and new media. Before we had a discussion we were first tasked to classify specific objects shown in the power point presentation to the three categories mentioned and here are my answers:

PRINT MEDIA	BROADCAST MEDIA	NEW MEDIA
Book	Newspaper	YouTube
Newspaper	Television	Social Media Sites
Magazines	Radio	Smartphone
Mimiograph	Social Media Sites	Cinema
Journals	Magazines
	Cinema
	YouTube

After doing the activity we were asked to describe and define the three different types of media in our own understanding and in our own knowledge. 

Here are my definitions for the three terminologies.

PRINT MEDIA - a form of media that is tangible, not digital, and is placed or printed usually in papers using the printing press.

BROADCAST MEDIA - a form of media created with a purpose to broadcast or disseminate information and knowledge to the public.

NEW MEDIA - a form of media that makes everything faster, efficient and advanced. It is also associated with different social networking sites.

After knowing the types of media and their differences we now discussed media convergence. It was really my first time to hear such a term and I was really excited to know more about it and I am ready to share it to all of you. Media Convergence is the co-existence of traditional and new media which allows media to flow across various platforms and it also has the ability to transform different kinds of media into digital code.

Here are my answers to a task about media convergence:

MEDIA CONVERGENCE IN:	PLATFORM	SPECIFIC EXAMPLE
Communication	Social Network	Facebook Twitter Messenger
Education	Learning Management System	Edmodo Khan Academy
Advertisement/Commercial	Product	Promotional Ads
News	News Agency	Manila Bulletin Philippine Star GMA
Entertainment	Multimedia Personality	Vice Ganda Kris Aquino

This day was really a great day for I had more knowledge about media and its types and also about the definition of media convergence and its effects to the society and to media itself. To summarize what I have learned in today's lesson. 

Here is my synthesis from the given questions:

Describe how new technologies have led to the convergence of traditional and new media.

New technologies has led to the transfer and conversion of a traditional media into newer form of media wherein the format is considered to be alike or the same.

How media convergence creates new opportunities

Through media convergence in today's world we can now communicate using different forms of media and mediums to be able to spread different information and knowledge to large amounts of people creating more opportunities for jobs, different markets and also plays a big role in the betterment economy of the world.

Use of one or two forms of new media to share knowledge on an issue

The two forms of media that I chose is Facebook and Twitter since it is mostly used nowadays. These forms of new media can be used to inform large amounts of people to increase awareness about societal. political, environmental and economic issues not only in a specific country but to the whole world.

How a person could be portrayed in public in the aspect of media convergence

A person could be portrayed in public in the aspect of media convergence through his profile and the posts that he makes and creates. These things give us a knowledge and understanding of a person.

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. " - Malcolm

References:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-recommendations-interaction-design-cognitive-psychology-hood

http://www.searchquotes.com/search/Media_Convergence/