Chapter 2: The Digital Media Flashcards
What is internet?
A network of wireless connection, that links digital devices to data centers around the world.
What is ARPAnet?
It enables researches to pool computing power and was created by the U.S department of defense. They enabled protocols.
What are protocols?
Protocols are supercomputers to join network and communicate.
What is the World wide web?
A place to create, post, and locate documents on the internet.
What is HTMl?
(Hypertext markup language) This is language for displaying text, images, and other multimedia.
What are browsers?
They are software applications that help users navigate the web. (Brought to audiences in 1993)
What are ISP’s?
(Internet Service Providers) Offers internet access to home users. This initially occurred via a modem and telephone dial-up.
What is a broadband?
These are connections that allow for a much faster download speed.
What is a search engine?
These offered a more automated way to find content.
What is a WIKI?
They are open and collaborative websites where people work together to create and edit content.
What is the semantic web?
This allows computers to examine web pages and databases and provide solutions to people’s needs.
What is the internet of things?
This integrates the internet into almost every part of our enviroment.
What are gatekeepers?
a person or thing that controls access to something.
What is confirmation bias?
The tendency to seek out information that sticks to our beliefs.
What are filter bubbles?
Spaces that we are only exposed to ideas that match our beliefs, like social media.
What does analog mean?
a category that refers to various ways of encoding information that existed before the binary code.
What is a remix culture?
A society in which people are able to create and communicate by mixing around texts/media.
What is a right of fair use?
This is a legal doctrine which allows people to use copyrighted material without permission as long as it does not compromise its material.
What are deepfakes?
Deepfakes are a result of manipulation, and they are images/videos that use advanced digital editing to create fraudulent but convincing content.
What is surveillance capitalism?
This is the way that large corporations make money by controlling user’s personal data. Google, amazon, and facebook do this.
What is data mining?
These track search histories, locations, browser settings
What are cookies?
These are computer files that automatically collect and transfer info between a website and a users browser.
What is an IP address?
The unique number that every device uses when communicating on the internet.
What are surveillance states?
These are societies in which governments conduct systematic mass surveillance on their population.
What are walled gardens?
These are highly managed environments brought to us through apps.
What is net neutrality?
This assumes that all data being sent across the internet will be treated the same.
What are opt-in policies?
This requires websites to obtain explicit permission before collecting browsing history data.
What is open-source software?
This refers to software built by the public as part of a collective effort.
What is universal access?
The notion that every citizen regardless of situation should have access to a technology.
What is the digital divide?
The contrast between those who can afford to purchase technology and pay for internet and those who cannot.
