Chapter 8 - Media & Technology Flashcards
Cyber feminism
The application to and promotion of feminism online.
Design patent
Patents that are granted when someone has invented a new and original design for a manufactured product.
Digital Divide
The uneven access to technology around race, class, and geographic lines.
E-readiness
The ability to sort through, interpret, and process digital knowledge.
Evolutionary Model of Technological Change
A breakthrough in one form of technology that leads to a number of variations, from which a prototype emerges, followed by a period of slight adjustments to the technology, interrupted by a breakthrough.
Gate keeping
The sorting process by which thousands of possible messages are shaped into a mass media appropriate form and reduced to a manageable amount.
Knowledge Gap
The gap in information that builds as groups grow without access to technology.
Media
All print, digital, and electronic means of communication.
Media Consolidation
A process by which fewer owners control the majority of media outlets.
Media Globalization
The worldwide integration of media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas.
Neo-Luddites
Those who see technology as a symbol of the coldness of modern life.
Net neutrality
The principle that all Internet data should be treated equally by internet service providers.
New Media
All interactive forms of information exchange.
Oligopoly
A situation in which a few firms dominate a marketplace.
Panoptic surveillance
A form of constant monitoring in which the observation posts are decentralized and the observed is never communicated with directly.
