3. Media Literacy
• Media affects you
• Subliminal messages attack you every day of your
life.
• Media is good but we should be able to have
logical thoughts and interpret things on our own
rather than just believing what we hear.
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5. Development of the World Wide Web
• Created by Tim Berners Lee in 1989
• Scientist had problems delivering
• Benefits of WWW:
information source,
experiments to those who were
communicate with family and
absent.
friends, advertisements and
• Berners Lee came up with the idea
of using the internet to connect
many computers.
the list goes on
6. MAC vs. PCs
• In the Bahamas...most of the population has a PC, only a minority
of the population owns a MAC.
• In most schools in the computer labs contain PCs because its
cheaper to buy a room full of PCs than to buy a room full of MACs.
• To every 2 PCs you buy, you can maybe get one MAC.
• Most schools have the impression that PCs can get the job done of
allowing students to become computer literate.
• Only a few schools are blessed to have their students practice their
computer literacy skills on MACs.
7. Television in The Bahamas
• 1911 Royal and Imperial Theaters
• 1949 & 1963 Sidney Poitier
• Job Opportunities
• 1937 The Broadcasting Corporation of The
Bahamas
• 1994 Canadian Investors
• Local programming?
17. Global Media and The Bahamas.
• Mediums of Global Media
• Global Media impacts us through:
• Music
• Newspapers
• Television
• Radio
• What we wear
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21. Radio in the
Bahamas.
• Radio is historic
• The average Bahamian comes into contact with radio almost
every day
• Radio is extremely influential in the Bahamas
• Bahamians must understand the power of radio
• Radio is a part of our culture.