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WHAT IS ICT?
Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) is a broader term for
Information Technology (IT), which refers to
all communication technologies, including
the internet, wireless networks, cell phones,
computers, software, middleware, video-
conferencing, social networking, and other
media applications and services enabling
users to access, retrieve, store, transmit,
and manipulate information in a digital form.
3. •As the world of ICT continues to grow, the
industry has focused on several innovations.
These innovations cater to the needs of the
people that benefit most out of ICT. Whether it
is for business or personal use, these trends
are the current front runners in the innovation
of ICT.
4. There are different trends in ICT and these
are the followings:
SOCIAL MEDIA
ASSISTIVE MEDIA
CONVERGENCE MEDIA
6. SOCIAL MEDIA
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Social media is a website, application,
or online channel that enables web
users to create, co-create, discuss,
modify, and exchange user-generated
content.
According to Nielsen, a global
information and measurement company,
Internet users spend more time in social
media sites than in any other type of site.
With this, more and more advertisers
use social media t0 promote their
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Social media let us communicate more
messages to more people, more quickly. It
provides a platform to share news and current
events with others in a way that is not guided
solely by mainstream media.
It provides a space for everyone to be a voice
and join in crucial conversations all across the
world. It also gives us the power to call out
injustices and in accurancies by portraying
realities.
8. TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
1. SOCIAL NETWORKS
2. BOOKMARKING SITES
3. SOCIAL NEWS
4. MEDIA SHARING
5. MICROBLOGGING
6. BLOGS AND FORUMS
10. SOCIAL NETWORKS
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Social Networks is a website that allows
people with similar interests to come together
and share information, photos, videos and
communicate with other people. People
engaged in social networking may be doing so
as a personal or a business endeavor.
Examples of Social Networks are Facebook,
Twitter, Messenger, and TikTok.
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Facebook is a social media network owned by
Meta Platforms that connects people through an
online platform. By sharing content like text status
post, images, and videos, Facebook users can
contribute ideas and join conversations with other
people who share the same or different interests.
Twitter is an online news and social networking
site owned and operated by American company
Twitter, Inc where people communicate in short
messages called tweets. Tweeting is posting short
messages for anyone who follows you on Twitter,
with the hope that your words are useful and
interesting to someone in your audience.
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TikTok also known in China as Douyin, is a
short-form video hosting service owned by
the Chinese company ByteDance is a short-
form, video-sharing app that allows users to
create and share 15-second videos, on any
topic.
Messenger is a proprietary instant
messaging app and platform developed by
Meta Platforms. Originally developed as
Facebook Chat in 2008. It is used to send
messages and exchange photos, videos,
stickers, audio, and files, and also react to
other users' messages.
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Bookmarking Sites (also called social
bookmarking) allow users to save and share
links to websites or interesting articles with
others. This is a good solution for storing and
organizing links important for us. Bookmarks are
most often tagged which allows subsequent
users to search for them by topic.
Examples of Bookmarking Sites are
StumbleUpon and Pinterest.
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Pinterest is an American image sharing and
social media service designed to enable saving
and discovery of information (specificall
y ideas) on the internet using images, and on
a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in
the form of pinboards.
StumbleUpon is a browser extension, toolbar, and
mobile app with a Stumble! button that, when
pushed, opened a semi-random website or video
that matched the user's interests, similar to a random
web search engine.[1] Users were able to filter results
by type of content and were able to discuss such
webpages via virtual communities and were able to
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Social News these are sites that allow users to
post their own news items or links to other news
sources. The users can also comment on the
post and comments may also be ranked. They
are also capable of voting on these news
articles of the website. Those who get the most
amount of votes are shown most prominently.
Examples of Social News are Digg and Reddit.
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Reddit is a website comprising user-generated
content —including photos, videos, links, and text-
based posts—and discussions of this content in what
is essentially a bulletin board system. Registered users
(commonly referred to as Redditors) submit content
to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos,
which are then voted up or down by other members.
Digg stylized in lowercase as digg, is an American
news aggregator with a curated front page, aiming to
select stories specifically for the Internet audience
such as science, trending political issues, and viral
Internet issues.
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Media Sharing is a website that enables users
to store and share their multimedia files (photos,
videos, music) with others. Such sites are often
freemium based, providing a modest amount of
free storage and paid subscriptions for greater
storage. The media is played/viewed from any
Web browser and may be selectively available
via password or to the general public. A media
sharing site can also be used to back up files.
Examples of Media Sharing are YouTube and
Instagram.
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Instagram is a social networking app
owned by Meta Platforms which allows its
users to share pictures and videos with their
friends.
YouTube is a global online video sharing
and social media platform headquartered in
San Bruno, California. It was launched on
February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad
Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by
Google.
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Microblogging is a form of blogging using
short posts without titles. Microposts were
originally known as status updates. Microblog
s allow users to exchange small elements of
content such as short sentences, individual
images, or video links, which may be the
major reason for their popularity. Those
subscribed to the user will be able to receive
these updates.
Examples of Microblogging are Twitter and
Plurk.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking site
owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc
where people communicate in short messages called
tweets. Tweeting is posting short messages for anyone
who follows you on Twitter, with the hope that your words
are useful and interesting to someone in your audience.
Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging
service that allows users to send updates (otherwise
known as plurks) through short messages or links, which
can be up to 360 text characters in length (as of 2016).
Updates are then shown on the user's home page using a
timeline, which lists all the updates received in
chronological order, and delivered to other users who
31. •Blogs and Forums a blog (a truncation of weblog)
is an informational website published on the World
Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal
diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically
displayed in reverse chronological order so that the
most recent post appears first, at the top of the
web page. On the other hand, a forum is an online
discussion board where people can ask questions,
share their experiences, and discuss topics of
mutual interest. Forums are an excellent way to
create social connections and a sense of
community. They can also help you to cultivate an
interest group about a particular subject.
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These are some examples of Blogging Sites
WorldPress.com – best for small hobby blogs.
WorldPress.org – for bloggers who want full
control over their site.
Web.com – best for business owners.
Wix.com – for small websites and creative
artists.
Joomla.com – for technically advanced
users.
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The following are examples of Online Discussion
Forums
PHBB – (phPBB) is an Internet forum package
written in the PHP scripting language. The
name phpBB is an abbreviation of PHP
Bulletin Board.
MyBB - formerly MyBBoard and originally
MyBulletinBoard, is a free and open-source
forum software developed by the MyBB Group.
36. ASSISTIVE MEDIA
•Assistive Media is a genetic term used to refer to a
group of software or hardware devices by which
people with disabilities can access computers.
Assistive Media is also a name of a company: “The
internet’s first audio solution for persons with print
reading / access barriers. The audio recordings of the
literary works produced by Assistive Media are now
easily accessible, on-demand, to the ever growing
number of persons with disabilities who now use the
internet.”
37. Examples of Assistive Media
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Screen Readers
Described by the American Foundation for the
blind (AFB) as “software programs that allow
blind or visually impaired users to read the text that
is displayed on computers screen with the speech
synthesizer”
Hearing Impaired
FM amplification system
The micro picks up the teacher’s voice, and
the transmitter sends it directly to the child’s
receiver for amplification in hearing aids.
40. Convergence Media
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Convergence Media simply refers to the
merging of diffirent types of mass media such
as traditional media and the internet as well as
portable and highly interactive technologies
through digital media platforms.
This is also a phenomenon involving the
interconnection of information and
communication technologies, computer
networks, and media content.
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It brings together the “Three C’s” –
Computing, Communication, and Content. It
brings together the digitization of media
content and the popularization of the internet.
Media convergence transforms established
industries, services, and work practices and
enables entirely new forms of content to
emerge.
Examples of Convergence Media are
Smartphones, Online Radio, and E – books.
