THE

INFORMATION
AGE
HASSANAL PEUTO
ABUSAMA, MAT
SULTAN KUDARAT STATE
UNIVERSITY
1. Linked learned
concepts to the
development of the
information age and its
impact on society.

2. Illustrate how the

social media and the
information age have LEARNING OBJECTIVES
impacted our lives
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When was the last time
you used something
digital?

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○ Also called the New Media
Age
○ A period starting in the
last quarter of the 20th
century when
information became
effortlessly accessible
through publications and
through the management The Information Age
of information by (Digital Age)
computers and computer
networks
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○ Information is “Knowledge
communicated or obtained
concerning a specific fact or
circumstance”. (Webster’s)
○ It is define as a “period
starting in the last quarter of
the 20th century when
information became
effortlessly accessible through
publications and through the The Information Age
management of information by
computers networks”.
(Digital Age)

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○ The focus of S&T and society
became “information” itself
(handling and conveying it)
○ Progress in electronics and
computers caused information
to be one of the most
important commodities
○ Advances in biology
✓ Genetics – revolution in
information science (recombinant The Information Age
DNA) (Digital Age)
✓ The immune system – also an
information processing system

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 ○The Information Age, according to James R.
Messenger, is a true new era focused on the
interconnection of computers through
telecommunications, with these information systems
running in both real-time and as-needed mode.

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 Information & society
BEFORE NOW
✓ During Galileo’s and Newton’s time, ✓ Today, the human mind is pictured as
people were viewed as complicated a complicated computer
mechanical machines
✓ Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander ✓ Steven Jobs and William Gates
Graham Bell, and Henry Ford
✓ Screw and bolt in the Industrial era ✓ Microchip (inventors were awarded a
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000)
✓ Majority of labor force was into ✓ Majority are engaged in supply of
manufacturing of goods services

Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
 Information & globalization
0 Communication worldwide
became cheap (with new phone
systems and Internet)
0 Changed the way people work
✓Information-based work
✓Business trends
✓Global banking
✓Scientific enterprise/research

Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
 Problems with Information age
0 Infringement of personal privacy
0 Excessive use of computers in
teaching young children may
impoverish the development of
intellectual capabilities
✓“Knowledge” is replaced by mere
“data”
✓Ideas contain data, but data contain
no ideas

Bunch, B and Hellemans, A. The History of Science and Technology. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, USA. 2004.
 Year Event
3000 BC Sumerian writing system
used pictographs
2900 BC Egyptian Hieroglyphic
writing
1300 BC Tortoise shell and oracle
bone writing
500 BC Papyrus roll was used
220 BC Chinese small seal was
developed
110 AD Book (parchment codex)
105 AD Woodblock printing and
paper was invented by the
Chinese
History 1455 Johannes Gutenberg
invented the printing press
using movable metal type
1755 Samuel Johnson’s
dictionary standardized
English spelling
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 Year Event
1802 Invention of the carbon arc
lamp
1830’s First viable design for
digital computer
Augusta Lady Byron writes
the world’s first computer
program
1837 Invention of the telegraph
in Great Britain and the
United States
1861 Motion pictures were
projected onto a screen
1876 Dewey decimal system was
introduce
History 1877 Eadweard Muybridge
demonstrated high-speed
photography
1899 First Magnetic recording
1902 Motion picture special
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effects were used
 Year Event
1906 Lee DeForest invented the
electronic amplifying tube
(triode)
1923 TV camera tube was
invented by Zvorkyn
1926 First practical sound movie
1940’s Beginning of information
science as a discipline
1946 ENIAC computer was
developed
1948 Birth of field of information
theory proposed by Claude
E. Shannon

History 1957 Planar transistor was

developed by Jean Hoerni
1958 First integrated circuit
1960’s LC MARC(Machine-readable
code)
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 Year Event
1969 UNIX operating system
was developed
(multitasking)
1971 Intel produced the first
microprocessor chip
1972 Optical laserdisc was
developed by Philips and
MCA
1975 Altair Microcomputer kit
was released: first personal
computer for the public
1977 RadioShack introduced the
first complete personal
computer
History 1984 Apple Macintosh computer
was introduced
Mid 1980’s Artificial Intelligence was
separated from
Information science
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 Year Event
1987 Hypercard was developed
by Bill Atkinson recipe box
metaphor
1991 Four hundred fifty
complete works of
literature on one CD-ROM
was released
January 1997 RSA (encryption and
network security software)
Internet security code
cracked for a 48-bit
number

History

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-by Richard Wurman
-abundance of
information, causes
difficulty to collect and
manage in the 1960’s
and 1970’s

Information Anxiety

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In the present
generation, there is no
doubt that information
has turned out to be a
commodity, an
overdeveloped product,
mass-produced, and
unspecialized.

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1. Information must
compete.

2. Newer is equated with

truer.

3. Selection is a THE TRUTHS OF THE

viewpoint. INFORMATION AGE
(ROBERT HARRIS)

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4. The media sells what
the culture buys.

5. The early word gets

the perm.

6. You are what you eat THE TRUTHS OF THE

and so is your brain. INFORMATION AGE
(ROBERT HARRIS)

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7. Anything in great
demand will be
counterfeited.

8. Ideas are seen as

controversial.

THE TRUTHS OF THE

9. Undead information INFORMATION AGE
walks ever on. (ROBERT HARRIS)

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10. Media presence
creates the story.

11. The medium selects

the message.

12. The whole truth is a THE TRUTHS OF THE

pursuit. INFORMATION AGE
(ROBERT HARRIS)

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-It is an electronic device
that stores and process
data (information).
-It runs on a program
that contains the exact,
step-by-step directions to
solve a problem.

COMPUTERS

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1. Personal Computer
(PC)
2. Desktop Computer
3. Laptops
4. Personal Digital
Assistants(PDAs)
5. Server
6. Mainframes TYPES OF COMPUTER

7. Wearable Computers
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 -The origin of the Internet to
Claude E. Shannon, an American
Mathematician who was
considered as the “Father of
Information Therapy”.

-He worked at Bell Laboratories

and at age 32, he published a
The World Wide Web paper proposing that
(Internet) information can be quantitatively
encoded as a sequence of ones
and zeroes.
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 -In the early days, the Internet
was used mainly by scientists to
communicate with other
scientists.

-The Internet remained under

government control until 1984.
The World Wide Web
(Internet)

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 -Sergey Brin and Larry Page
launched their company
(Google) 1998.

-Google is now the world’s most

popular search engine,
accepting more than 200 million
queries daily.
The World Wide Web
(Internet)

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 -Electronic mail, or email, was a
suitable way to send a message
to fellow workers, business
partners or friends.

-Surfing the net became a

pastime in and of itself.
The World Wide Web
(Internet) -Microsoft’s Bill Gates to Apple’s
Steve Jobs to Facebook’s Mark
Zuckerberg.
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 -The Internet allowed
pornography to be broadcast to
millions of homes.

-Crimes in various forms are

rampant because of the use of
social media.
The World Wide Web
(Internet) -Cyberbullying is an issue that
poses alarm worldwide.

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-Bioinformatics is the
application of information
technology to store,
organize, and analyze
vast amount of biological
data which is available in
the form of sequences
and structures of
proteins- the building APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS
IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
blocks of organisms and
nucleic acids- the
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1. Who is the author of the
article/site?
How to find out?
✓Does the author provide
his or her credentials?
✓What type of expertise
does he or she have on
HOW TO CHECK THE
the subject he or she is
RELIABILITY OF WEB
writing? SOURCES
✓What type of experience
does he or she have?
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1. Who is the author of the
article/site?
How to find out?
✓What kinds of websites
are associated with the
author’s name?
✓Do commercial sites come
HOW TO CHECK THE
up? Do the websites
RELIABILITY OF WEB
associated with the author SOURCES
give you any clues to
particular biases the
author might have? NAME OR LOGO 31
2. Who published the site?
How to find out?
✓Look at the domain name of
the website that will tell you
who is hosting the site.
✓Search the domain name at
http://www.whois.sc/
✓Do not ignore the suffix on the HOW TO CHECK THE
domain. .edu = educational, RELIABILITY OF WEB
.com = commercial, .mil= SOURCES
military, .gov= government,
.org= nonprofit
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3. What is the main purpose of
the site? Why did the author
write it and why did the
publisher post it?

4. Who is the intended

audience?

HOW TO CHECK THE

5. What is the quality of RELIABILITY OF WEB
information provided on the SOURCES
website?

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1. AFA e Newsletter
(Alzheimer’s Foundation
of America newsletter)

2. Bartleby.com – Great
Books Online

Examples of Useful and

3. Cyber Bullying – free Reliable Web Sources
collection of e-books
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4. Drug information
websites:
-National Library of
Medicine’s Medical Plus
-Drugs.com
-PDRhealth
5. Google books Examples of Useful and
6. Googlescholar.com Reliable Web Sources

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7. NationMaster – vast
compilation of data from
such soruces as the CIA
World Facebook, UN, and
OECD.

8. Project Gutenberg –
single collection of free Examples of Useful and
electronic books Reliable Web Sources

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 The links below are
examples of how fake news
influenced our society. Read
these links and write a short
synopsis of how fake news
can influence our society.
Your synopsis can have 500
to 1000 words. Use the next
Activity: Social Media
Synopsis (Fake News) page in making your
synopsis.

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 1. https://theaseanpost.com/article/dealing-fake-
news-amid-pandemic

2. https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2017-
07/contending-truth-amidst-fake-news-
epidemic?gclid=CjwKCAiAgc-ABhA7EiwAjev-
j1qe46SFIDKApiPaduPOlTTBj005pCqvzajD8fLm
yvTUUHsW4cDXqhoCuocQAvD_BwE

3. https://filipinotimes.net/top-
stories/2018/03/09/true-queen-elizabeth-ii-calls-
Activity: Social Media pres-duterte-brave-man/
Synopsis (Fake News)
4. https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/4/6/ar
rests-over-coronavirus-fake-news.html

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 1. How to write your Synopsis? Visit
these links.

a.
https://www.writersdigest.com/improv
e-my-writing/learn-how-to-write-a-
synopsis-like-a-pro

Activity: Social Media b. https://literaryterms.net/synopsis/

Synopsis (Fake News)

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 1. Group of 5-7 members.
2. Produce a short video clip
2-3 mins on the impact of
information age to your life
as a student.
3. The video clip should be
original.
Activity: Video
Presentation

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 -Group into 3 members.
-Think of a device with special
features that you can develop to help
improve lives of people in our society.
It could be something that you can
develop to help in communication,
transportation, health, and the like.
-Illustrate your device in a short bond
paper and/or show the mechanism.
Activity: Creative
-Present you input in the class for 3-5
Work minutes.

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