Simulan Na Natin Ang Pagbabago

A Presidential Speech

 

Magandang hapon sa inyong lahat! Ang araw na ito ay mahalaga para sa akin, ito ang araw na nagtipon tayong lahat dito ngayon hindi para sa akin, hindi para sa inyo kundi para sa pag-asa na mayroon ang bawat isa sa atin. Hindi makasariling pag-asa kundi pag-asa para sa ating bayan na ngayon ay nalulugmok at naghihingalo.

Bilang isang Pilipino ay naghahangad ako na balang araw ay maiaangat ang Pilipinas sa kanyang pagkakalugmok at mabubuhay ang apoy na mayroon ang bawat isa sa atin tungo sa pagbabago ng ating bayan. Mahirap at patuloy na naghihirap ang Pilipinas at ang mga Pilipino. Bilang isang Pilipinong ipinanganak sa kahirapan, naranasan kong magutom at naranasan kong maghangad ng mga bagay na wala ako at ang aking pamilya. Hindi naging madali sa aking mga magulang na maghanap ng trabaho sapagka’t hindi sila nakapagtapos ng pag-aaral. Lahat ng ito ang nagsilbing inspirasyon ko para makapagtapos ng pag-aaral.

Masakit man isipin, marami sa ating mga kababayan ang nakapagkakaitan ng karapatang mag-aral dahil sa hirap ng buhay. Sa murang edad ay pinipili nilang mag trabaho sa ilalim ng init ng sikat ng araw upang makatulong sa kanilang pamilya. Isinaalang-alang nila ang kanilang pangarap upang matustusan ang pangangailangan ng kanilang pamilya. Ang ating mga kabataan na siyang pag-asa ng bayan ay hindi nabibigyan ng pagkakataon upang punan ang kanilang papel sa bansa.

Marami tayong pwedeng magawa para sa ating bayan. Kaya’t magsimula na tayo ngayon! Simulan na natin ang pagbabago. Pagbabago sa ating bayan kung saan wala ng Pilipino na magugutom dahil sa kahirapan. Na bawa’t isa ay mabibigyan ng pagkakataon na magkaroon ng trabaho at kumita ng sapat na sahod upang maitustos sa kanilang mga pangagailangan.

Sa hinaharap, mas dadami ang mga oportunidad para sa mga empleyado dito sa Pilipinas na hindi na kailangan pang mangibang bansa. Kahit ang mga hindi nakapagtapos ay mabibigyan ng pagkakataong baguhin ang takbo ng kanilang buhay sa mga trabahong bubuksan para sa kanila.

Tayo ay mamuhunan sa edukasyon. Tayo ay mamuhunan sa ating mga kabataan pagka’t sila ang susi sa pagkamit sa pagbabago. Sabay sabay nating patibayin ang pundasyon ng edukasyon upang makapagkumpitensya tayo sa buong mundo. Gagawing mas madali ang pag-aaral para sa mga nasa malalayong baryo sa pamamagitan ng pagpapatayo ng paaralan na malapit sa kanila.

Makakagawa tayo ng pagbabago pero bago natin makamit yon, kailangan ko kayong bumoto. kaya hinihikayat ko kayong tumayo kasama ko sa laban na ito. magkasama nating tahakin ang daan tungo sa pagbabago at iangat ang Pilipinas mula sa kahirapan patungo sa magandang kinabukusan. Kaya’t simulan na natin ang pagbabago! Magandang hapon at mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

 

Annjie Gancita
April Magbanua

The Digital Age: The Fast Pacing Evolution

by Glannery Brasileno, Mark Angelo Estil, Jessah Jen Garbino, Reyban Sabordo, Samantha Villacorta, and Kyla Villanueva

Media convergence has become an important pill to swallow in the everyday life of many people. With the development of technology in different fields and operations, people have had both a better choice of media and a life where these technologies made life easier. Media convergence drastically changes our lives in many ways. We have the internet that allows us to search everything at one click so people can do their business much more effectively. Social network applications on phones help us stay connected and updated with our family and colleagues. Playing video games can allow us to connect with people playing the same game in different countries which brought virtual and global interaction . It is clearly evident in our daily lives that media convergence made a huge impact on our society especially if we go to the negative side of the spectrum. People are addicted to checking their e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. This addictive behavior molded the way of their life wherein users cannot be able to function well without some sort of these technologies. Nevertheless, there are still advantages in which media convergence contributed immensely to the growth and development of our society.final

MEDIA in its Classical Metamorphism

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By:

Donovan Aguilos

Annjie Gancita

April Magbanua

Marvin John Saijo

Erika Xim Paola Santos

“I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.” ~Willie Nelson

The road to 80s was a hotspot of classical metamorphism where revolution of media created a huge impact on the lives of the people. The transition highlighted revolutions on television, audio recording systems, broadcast and email systems, internet and computers. Black and white televisions revolutionized to colored and cable-linked TVs. Video cassette recorder emerged until it was materialized to CDs. Due to developments in televisions and audio systems, CNN and MTV were brought and mainly appreciated by the masses. Moreover, email system was introduced and integrated to enhance online networking.  Internet connection was also strengthened through the use of fiber-optic cables. Computers progressed from bulky desktops to convenient laptops along with the introduction of operating systems such as Microsoft Windows.

This evolution from traditional to digital media emphasized efficiency and efficacy in terms of communication, distribution and understanding. The wave of change created noticeable positive impact on people’s way of living and greatly improved the entertainment aspect and communication cycle.

What will happen to media and communication after 50 years?

Probably, due to constant integration the road of media evolution will constantly grow and improve. Holographs and touch screens will dominate visual media and devices will be made portable and extra convenient. Moreover, technology will greatly change people’s way of living from ordinary to internet of things. Also, information dissemination will reach everything from remote places to communities across the globe. With the potential of the future generation, these roads may pave the way to greater media milestones.

Decada Cincuenta a Sesenta

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Jamera, Cedric
Ricablanca, Chiara Mari
Sinamban, Ardeth
Servano, Jence Carlo
Sorenio, Karl

The Golden Age of Television paved the way for media to increase and boost its coverage in spreading information to the public. Moreover, the process of disseminating news and updates to different regions and countries was less of a struggle at that moment than it was before. People can now interpret information in a more accurate way due to the visual representation of the news in the television. But, not only did we have visual aids to help us interpret the information here, recording devices were also introduced at this era to help people actually store the information for future reference. In retrospect, this was the innovation that started the development for storing data and information. This also opened up new opportunities for journalism and news reporting during that era. Especially with the introduction of audiocassettes, journalists can now accurately quote their interviews for credibility and accuracy. But, what they didn’t know is with these small steps in the development of media comes a much bigger platform that will create a new era in the media context. And that they were taking small steps toward the future of media that will revolutionize technology and the lives of the public. They were one step closer to The Internet.

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Through the 90’s

By: Angelo Nobleza, Joshua Steven Rose, Socorro Bay Sarabia, Rea Mae Solano, Rexelle Velasco

The birth and growth of the internet as well as the world wide web in the 90s sparked the emergence of various electronic mails and electronic media platforms. It was also in this period that digital marketing became a trend. For these reasons, advertising and business transactions became less strenuous. In addition, media platforms in this time was social also in nature. As a result, social media platforms were created until the 2000s and thereafter was the rise of Facebook in 2004.

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Orality, Literacy, and the Tradition — The Orthosphere

Beginning in the mid-1990s and for about ten years I published a number of articles about the dismal state of the humanities and one of its causes: The savage war against literacy being waged in the public schools by the state-university departments of education that set curricula for K-12. My Modern Age article from 2003, “Orality, Literacy, […]

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Orality and Literacy DISTINCTION, not metamorphosis

By Jence Carlo Servano and Ardeth Sinamban

Linguistics has been sounding a faint alarm. The human tongue and hand have been in quite a combat as millenials and traditionalists flag out their linguistic methods to be more effective than the other. Other intellects have even argued that writing has “changed” or “taken over” orality, and that it should be already, with what of the modern human intellect. However, Ferdinand de Saussure commented that: writing has “usefulness, shortcomings and dangers”, but he saw writing as a complement to verbal speech, not a transformer of it.

To really think about it though, it already seems pretty obvious that orality and literacy are different. According to Ong’s Orality and Literacy, there are roughly 3000 languages spoken today to which only 78 have a literature. Writing also extends word resources: English has more than 1.5million words, and most oral dialects have only several thousand words. In short, writing implies some orality in a culture, orality does not imply writing.

Orality was and is mainly used by the tradional oral cultures, and they depend mostly in their memories. They must invest greatly in repeating and memorizing which they arduously learned in years. Indeed to remember things one should established a high set of conservative mind. At the time writing was invented, it gave humans access to limitless memory. It’s not aiming to annihilate oral cultures but because it’s a human need. To know more and learn more. What’s written down, that idea can now last without being forgotten. No need of vivid repeating and memorizing, but making people learn new things faster and share more information without forgetting. With this, intellects and experts of the modern world have commended writing to be used by schools, millenials, and society of the modern world since it is proven to be significantly more convenient, appropriate, and advantageous compared to the acquirements or erudition of orality. However, there still are oral cultures who stood firm in their cultural linguistic ways of learning despite the “evolution” of the modern society.

To sum things up, even with how quite evident it is to see that writing is easier when it comes to studying, and that millenials and majority of the people in the world today do use literacy or writing over orality, that does not imply that it has totally taken over or metamorphosized orality. There are oral cultures still existing that keep faith to their traidtion linguistic method.

 

Resources:

Ong, W. J., & Hartley, J. (2013). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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ORALITY VS LITERACY : A Fight for Equality

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By: Glannerry Kate Salarza and Reyban Sabordo

 

“No man is an island”

Perhaps, this is one of the most factual aphorisms I have encountered in my entire existence here on Earth. Indeed, no one and nothing could survive without the assistance of the other.

Now, how is this related to orality and literacy?

Throughout the years, these two cultures, oral and literate, have paved their way to get a spot in the realms of language and communication.

Orality, by definition, is a medium of language originated long before chirography was unraveled, whereas people communicate personally. Long ago, since there are no concrete basis or representations, the language our ancestors used was just merely vague sounds. In fact, it doesn’t matter even though they vary with the sounds as long as they understand each other. As a result of the face-to-face connection, conversations tend to be more additive, aggregative, redundant, conservative, close to the human world, agnostically-toned, empathetic and participatory, homeostatic, and situational, than usual.

Literacy, on the flip side, is one aid of connecting with other people in a chirographic demeanor. As years go by, humanity has learned and embraced the essence of communication through written letters, whereas they have come up with an idea to write all the things they want to say to the other person in a sheet of paper. However, in the fast-pacing world of today’s generation, technology has become powerful and influential to the people, especially the millennials. Today, technology has been a wide medium of communication. From letters, people can now communicate through text messaging, chat, e-mail, and the like. Through literate culture, conversations tend to be more analytic, copious, traditionalist, objectively distant, and abstract, compared to oral.

Though they vary in a lot of aspects, primary oral and literate culture have become “best buds” in the given field. Having being said that no one and nothing could succeed alone, we believe that orality and literacy are the support systems of each other. Thus, we do not consider orality as superior or inferior than literacy and vice versa. In lieu, we treat them just the same as a “win-win situation”. These two are interconnected cultures, meaning that they both are dependent with each other. Obviously, you cannot enjoy the zenith level of effectivity of each one by utilizing it individually. Orality and literacy may differ in model and medium of communication, but allowing them to work as one will be a perfect combo.

Hence, orality and literacy should be inseparable, and we should always bear in mind that every person or everything has its own unique trait. We are all different from each other, but that doesn’t mean that one is superior or inferior than the other. Never.

 

 

References:

Ong, W. J. (1982). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. London: Methuen. Retrieved from: http://dss-edit.com/prof-anon/sound/library/Ong_orality_and_literacy.pdf

Photo References:

Croman, J. (2017). http://jakecroman.co/why-commitment-to-providing-equal-treatment-is-a-smart-business-move/