Knowing the pros and cons of digital media

1. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB
THE PAPERLESS
SOCIETY
(DIGITAL MEDIA)

2. DIGITAL MEDIA
 Are any media that are
encoded in a machine-readable
format that can be created,
viewed, distributed, modified
and preserved on computers.
 Frequently contrasted with
print media, such as printed
books, newspapers and
magazines, and other
traditional or analog media,
such as pictures, film or audio
tape. CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

3. DIGITAL MEDIA
 Has also posed new challenges to copyright and
intellectual property laws, fostering an open
content movement in which content creators
voluntarily give up some or all of their legal
rights to their work.
 Also called the Information Age, leading to a
paperless society in which all media are
produced and consumed on computers.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

4. WHAT IS INFORMATION AGE?
 (also known as the Computer
Age, Digital Age, or New
Media Age)
 It is a period in human history
characterized by the shift from
traditional industry that the
Industrial Revolution brought
through industrialization, to an
economy based on information
computerization.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

5. PRINT MEDIA VS DIGITAL MEDIA
 Compared with print media, the
mass media, and other analog
technologies, DIGITAL MEDIA are
easy to copy, store, share and
modify. This quality of digital media
has led to significant changes in
many industries, especially
journalism, publishing, education,
entertainment, and the music
business. The overall impact of
these changes is so far-reaching
that it is difficult to quantify.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

6. PRINT MEDIA VS DIGITAL MEDIA
 In journalism, digital media and
citizen journalism have led to
the loss of thousands of jobs in
print media and the bankruptcy
of many major newspapers.
But the rise of digital
journalism has also created
thousands of new jobs and
specializations
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

7. CITIZEN JOURNALISM
 The concept of citizen
journalism (also known as
"public", "participatory",
"democratic“, or "street"
journalism) is based upon
public citizens "playing an
active role in the process of
collecting, reporting,
analyzing, and disseminating
news and information.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

8. DISADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL
MEDIA
 Challenges to a digital
transition remain, including
outdated copyright laws,
censorship, the digital
divide, and the spectre of a
digital dark age, in which
older media becomes
inaccessible to new or
upgraded information
systems.CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

9. DISADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL
MEDIA
 loss of thousands of jobs in print media and
the bankruptcy of many major newspapers
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CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

10. DISADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL
MEDIA
 It has imposed
painful costs on
small movie
theatres, some of
which did not or
will not survive the
transition to digital
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

11. DISADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL
MEDIA
 Digital media pose
many challenges to
current copyright
and intellectual
property laws.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

12. EXAMPLE OF COPYRIGHT
CHALLENGE
 under current copyright law,
common Internet memes are
probably illegal to share in
many countries. Legal rights are
at least unclear for many
common Internet activities,
such as posting a picture that
belongs to someone else to a
social media account, covering a
popular song on a YouTube
video, or writing fanfiction.CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

13. ADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
 The transition has
economic benefits to
Film Industry, making
distribution easier and
making it possible to
add high-quality digital
effects to films.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

14. ADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
 Content creators
voluntarily adopt open or
copyleft licenses, WAIVE
up some of their legal
rights, or they can release
their work to the public
domain.
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15. ADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
 Digital Media is
numerical, networked
and interactive system
of links and databases
that allows us to
navigate from one bit of
content or webpage to
another.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

16. ADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
 rise of digital journalism
has also created
thousands of new jobs and
specializations. E-books
and self-publishing are
changing the book
industry, and digital
textbooks
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

17. ADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
 Digital media has led to a
new form of scholarship,
called digital scholarship,
and new fields of study,
such as digital
humanities and digital
history. It has changed
the way libraries are used
and their role in society.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

18. ADVANTAGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
 the start of a new
era in industrial
history, called
the Information
Age.
CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA;LLB

19. THANK YOU FOR READING!
CHELDHAYE