Types of Media: Print, Broadcast, New Media (Lecture)

PRINT	BROADCAST	NEW MEDIA
●Book ●Newspapers ●Magazines ●Mimeograph ●Journals ●Newsletter	●Television ●Radio ●Smartphone ●Cinema	●YouTube ●Social Networking Sites ●Smartphone ●Cinema

Print Media - media wherein the information is being disseminated using printed material (paper and an ink).

Broadcast Media - media wherein the information is being passed on a large audience using a channel.

New Media- type of media that provide digitalized information.

MEDIA CONVERGENCE	PLATFORM	EXAMPLE
Communication	Social Networks	Facebook Twitter, Messenger, Line
Education	Learning Management System	Edmodo, Quipper, Google Classroom
Advertisement/ Commercial	Product Advertisements	Facebook Ads, YouTube Ads
News	News Agency	Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Philippine Star, GMA. ABS-
Entertainment	Multimedia Personality	James Reid, Nadine Lustre, Sarah Geronimo, Kris Aquino

Synthesis

1. New technologies have led to the convergence of traditional and new media since there are new information and new ways how to disseminate it.

2. Media convergence creates new opportunities of interaction in a way that even though people are far away from each other they can still communicate and interact. Example, before we were just having our lessons, and passing of assignments inside our classroom. But now we have online classroom. There are new opportunities being given by the media convergence.

3. Before in getting information we had newspapers only. Now that we are now living in an information age we have television, radio, social networking sites. We don't only use newspaper to gain information or news. News can now be disseminated through the use of Facebook pages and other social networking sites. There's always a convergence between the traditional and new media that provide opportunities to let people be informed.

 4. A person can be portrayed as knowledgeable and informed because of the information readily available now. We are now in an information age where media convergence exists. So, the information can be disseminated in many ways.