Module 5 - Part 1

​​Direct O God,

We beseech you

All our actions by Your holy inspiration

And help us on by Your gracious assistance

So that every prayer

and work of ours may begin with You

And by You be happily ended.

Amen.

• ​Crazy 8's (Find eight (8) presidential candidates from 2010-2016)

• ​Look for their campaign materials and observe how they promote and present themselves.

• ​I Like, I wish, What If:

• What did you like about the campaign?

  What's one minor change you wish to do for the campaign?

  What if the campaign was done in 2021, how different do you think this campaign would be?

​​Like the media, individuals are also able to transmit ideas, feelings, and emotions in the communicative process. People have an important role to play in the communication process and one key quality to have is personal influence.​

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​If we are to reexamine the meaning of the word medium in the context of communication, it refers to the “means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment.”

​​Commonalities:​

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Both are people media which means they are involved in the use, analysis, evaluation and production of media and information. Both are people who provide information.​

​Differences:​

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People in media are media practitioners which means they are media-related professionals while people as media are not media practitioners but rather media users.​

• ​Opinion Leader

• ​Citizen Journalism

• ​Social Journalism

• ​Crowdsourcing

• ​Journalists:

a. Print Journalists

​b. Photojournalists

​c. Broadcast Journalists

d. ​Multimedia Journalists

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​As media and information literate individuals, it is important to be able to decode whether the information we are accessing are real or not. It is important that we are able to detect intentional imprecision or deceptions in media messages.