Transcript Media Literacy

SUBJECT: Media Literacy
TITLE: Step by Step Guide to
Analyzing Print and Non-Print
Sources
Understanding Goal – Investigative
Question
Understanding Goal: Explore and analyze
various information formats.
Investigative Question: How do formats differ in
presenting information?
Summary
By analyzing the differences between formats
you can better understand and evaluate the
information presented.
By getting a handle on how information is
created you can gather the most credible and
useful sources for a better research project.
9th grade – 12th grade Language
Arts Standards
12.2.a) Evaluate sources including
advertisements, editorials, blogs, Web sites,
and other media for relationships between
intent, factual content, and opinion.
12.2.b) Determine the author's purpose and
intended effect on the audience for media
messages.
Formats available through Library of
Congress portal www.loc.gov
Prints & Photographs:
Advertisements, Photographs,
Drawings, Comics, Prints, Drawings,
Autographs
American Memory:
Interviews, Sheet Music,
Radio, Speeches
Performing Arts: Music,
Theater, Dance
Film: Motion Picture and
Television
Formats available through the Library
of Congress site: www.loc.gov
Audio, book, film, video, legislation,
manuscript, map, music score,
newspaper, periodical, print,
photograph, drawing, software, eresource, web page, 3-D object.
American Folklife
Center
(endangered music
http://www.loc.gov/fol
klife/ryko.html
General Evaluation Criteria – common
to all formats
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Who is the creator?
What’s the intent of the creator?
Who is the creator trying to reach?
How was the message constructed?
• BUT – each format also has unique features.
Unique Attributes to Consider for
various types of
PRINT MATERIAL
1. Advertisements
2. Art Prints, Art - two dimensional (paintings,
sculpture)
3. Cartoons / Comic Strips
4. Letters
5. Maps
6. Photographs
7. Books/Picture Books/Manga
8. Email - (sort of print & non-print)
Unique Attributes to Consider for
various types of
NON-PRINT MATERIAL
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Film/video recording
Sound recording: Interview / speech / lecture
Performance (music, dance, theater, opera)
Radio Broadcast
Television Broadcast
YouTube
Advertisements
• name of product | company | subject of ad |
target audience | medium
Art Prints / Art 2D
• format (painting, lithograph, sculpture, digital
… | artist’s name | date | title |date of
composition | medium |institution housing
work | where exhibited | critical reception.
Cartoons / Comic Strips
• original publication | date | historical
significance | message
Letters
• writer’s name | who is the letter written to |
what is the subject | date of letter | is there a
signature
Maps
• where published | date | purpose | medium
of publication | color/black and white
Photographs
• original exhibit or publication | consider
angles, lighting, cropping
Books / Picture Books / Manga
• Picture Books: artist | characters | plot | if
text included – relationship to pictures |
country of origin
• Graphic Novels/ Graphic Non Fiction /
Manga: artist | author | country of origin |
text-drawing relationship | layout |
color/black and white |characters | storyline
Email
• published or unpublished | to | from |
date | subject line | medium of delivery |
description of message | reason for message
Film / Video Recording
• title | director | distributor | year of
release | medium | screenwriter |
performers | producer | dubbed |
subtitled | original language
Sound Recording/Podcast/Radio
Broadcast: Interview / Speech /
Lecture
• format (podcast, radio, audiotape) | producer
| composer | ensemble | performer/narrator
| titles of works included | manufacturer |
medium | date | station | sound quality |
length
• Speeches/Lectures: speaker’s name | title of
presentation | meeting and sponsoring
organization | location | date
Performance (music, dance,
theater, opera)
• (Play, Opera, Dance, Concert) title | site of
performance | similar criteria as film
TV Broadcast
• title of program | episode | network |
broadcast date | medium of reception
YouTube
• who posted | how many views | date posted |
production quality | length | content
verification (you need to go beyond site since
it may or may not be from a credible source