MEDIA

                                                                MEDIA

            “Media" refers to various ways of conveyance. Radio, TV, and the newspaper are some examples of different kinds of media. The word can also be used as a collective noun for the press or news reporting agencies. Media includes every broadcasting and narrow casting medium such as newspaper, magazines, TV, billboards, mail, telephone, fax and internet. Media is the plural of medium and can take a plural or singular verb depending on the sense intended.

                                     

In the technical world, "media" is also refers as a collective noun, but mention to different types of data storage options. Computer media can be removable drives, hard drives, CD-ROM or CD-Read disc, DVDs, USB drives, flash memory & floppy disks. For instance, if you want to bring your photos from your digital camera into a photo processing store media, ask you what kind of media your pictures are stored, are they stored on a Compact Disk or USB drive or on the flash memory card inside your camera? For all these reasons, it is useful to have a basic knowledge of what the different types are. Tools used to store and deliver information or data

·                     Advertising media, several media, content, placement and buying for advertising

·                     Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks

·                     Digital media, electronic media used for storing, transmitting, and receiving digitized information

·                     Electronic media, communications delivered via electronic or electromechanical energy

·                     Hypermedia, media with hyperlinks

·                     Mass media, all means of mass information and communication

·                     Multimedia, communications that incorporate multiple forms of information content and  processing

·                     New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology

·                     News media, mass media focused on communicating news

·                     News media (United States), the news media of the United States of America

·                     Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas

·                     Published media, any media made available to the public

·                     Recording medium, devices used to store information

·                     MEDIA Programme,  a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector

·                     Social media, media disseminated through social interactions

Social media is becoming an integral part of life online as social websites and applications multiply. Maximum traditional online media include social integrant, such as comment fields for the participants. In business field, the social media is used for marketing their products, promote their brands, and connect to current customers and foster new business. Some of them are Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia etc.

Advantages Of Social Media In Education

• Social Media are everywhere, therefore education is around us also.
• It almost does not cost anything
• All time availability 24/7.
• Interactive education - more interesting and better explained issues.
• Because you are anonymous shy people so not have to cope with stress.
• Almost not limited knowledge
• You can study almost everywhere, devices are portable
• Everybody can study therefore no need for student selection etc.

Disadvantages Of Social Media In Education

• No human human relation
• Many information in the social media contain some errors or mistakes
• Piracy and plagiarism
• No creativity in some cases
• For some students new technology can be hard to cope with
• Battery performance in some cases
• Internet connection issue
• Paper is more comfortable way to study than monitor
• Less Teacher Student interaction