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“Understanding the Relevance of Information Literacy in the Midst of Social Era”

If you are here to widen your knowledge about information literacy, then this blog is the best for you! Information literacy means having the ability to locate, acquire, critically evaluate and use information effectively. Exciting isn't it? Information literacy is just like how you cook food. If you are cooking, there is a step by step to be followed to have a delicious food to eat. Information literacy has a step too. First is you to identify, next is to find, evaluate, then apply, and last but not the least is to acknowledge. If you add this five, it can be a result of components of Information literacy. Is this blog an example? Yes! The challenge to you is to know if my information is reliable, how can you use this information you got by reading this blog, and recognize my point of view about the said topic. But the main question is, what is the relevance of Information literacy in the midst of the social era? In this modern generation, there's a lot of changes happening. The Internet is now used to share interests, opinions and more. It's up to you on how you adapt to these changes. As what other people said, "Go with the flow". In this time, value creation starts by individuals gathering information through social mechanisms. Example of this is trust, if the information are reliable or not. Second is the purpose, what brings to them to gather ideas and what's the benefits they can get out of it. We all know that there's a lot of fake news or plagiarized work and the reason why Information literacy are relevant in this midst of social era is because it's the way on how we can identify what is true and what is free to use.

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The relationship between Print, Broadcast, and New Media

In this day and age where technology is constantly changing and evolving through the course of time, and obviously the tools of the past are being replaced by something that is far more better and improved / evolved version of that tool due to the technological advances that take place throughout the time. This applies to the methods of communication in the past where in prehistoric era when countries are at wars, people use other people as messengers to give orders to their troops to advance or to retreat, in the age of machines we telegrams, printing presses, and post offices to communicate, spread news, and send orders, now in the new age where communication is not as complex and hard compared to the old times, now due to the technological advances with a few swipes and touches of our fingers we can now instantly communicate with the use of smartphones, computers, and telephones. spreading news to the public is now more efficient, and effective with use of the broadcast media and social media. Now where does the relationship between the three come in? The relationship between the three does from its functions relation as this, The differences between print and broadcast news is that broadcast news is written for listeners and viewers turning in with their ears. Print news is touchable information structured to be reread. Print news uses AP style while broadcast news uses AP style as well as a broadcast presentation style. The rise of new media has increased communication between people all over the world and the Internet. It has allowed people to express themselves through blogs, websites, videos, pictures, and other user-generated media. New media are forms of media that are computational and rely on computers for redistribution. New media does not include analog broadcast television programs, feature to witness a different kind of parallel relationship between social changes and even traditional media forms such as the printing press have been. In comparison, new media allows companies to target a narrow target audience through social media, paid online ads, and search results

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