Digital Communication Flashcards
The transmittal of data, instructions, and information from one computer or mobile device to another, often via the internet.
Digital communication
blogs, wikis, email, electronic messaging, podcasts, and online conferences
types of digital communication
Short for web log, an informal website consisting of date- or time-stamped articles,** or posts**, in a diary or journal format.
Blogs
Writer can communicate directly and immediately with an audience, without traditional gatekeepers who select and edit content.
blogs
Businesses use blogs to
communicate with employees, customers, and vendors.
encourage blog readers to sign up for a free product to develop sales leads
A sales department
use blog to show the company’s expertise in their subject area, such as an employment firm creating a blog post on tips for job interviewing.
A corporate blog
use a blog to publicize its corporate mission and values, as well as its products.
A large company
is a blogging site that uses the tools of social networking. For example, Tumblr lets users post not only text but also photos, quotations, links, audios, and videos. Bloggers can tag their entries and chat with other bloggers. Bloggers can share each other’s posts on Tumblr or on other social networks.
blogging network
A collaborative website where you and your colleagues can modify and publish content on a webpage.
wiki
Wikis are not useful in education for students working together on projects; they cannot post online portfolios, share research notes, and give feedback to group members. True or false
False
is a popular technology for communicating with others, especially when exchanging short messages.
Electronic messaging
can be part of larger applications such as Facebook, part of webpages, or separate applications.
Electronic messaging
This feature allows you to send messages to a person or group quickly. Participants do not have to be online at the same time.
Text messaging, or sending short text messages.
holding real-time typed conversations by two people who are online at the same time.
Chatting
sending photos, videos, or links to websites, allowing participants to quickly share content.
Multimedia messaging
can include custom animated characters you can create, using apps such as Animoji, which feature face-tracking technology to apply your voice and facial expressions to animated characters.
Messaging apps
recording and posting digital messages for another person. Often referred to as** a voice mail**, it’s a message recorded using digital technology.
Voice messaging
converting incoming or outgoing voice messages to written text, for use in situations where typing messages is impractical and hand-free operation is required.
Voice-to-text (also called speech-to-text)
can also be used in visual voice mail, where it can translate voice messages into typed text.
Voice-to-text technology
A meeting among several geographically separated people who use a network or the Internet to transmit audio and video data
web or video conference
A window used to send typed messages among participants during a web conference.
chat window
Zoom, GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, WebEx, and ConnectWise.
business video conferencing programs
short for web-based seminar, is a presentation an audience accesses over the web that shows a shared view of the presenter’s screen and may also include audio and video of the presenter and allow for audience participation.
webinar
a face-to-face conversation held over a network such as the Internet
Video chat, also called video calling
used in businesses and education for video broadcasts of an event transmitted across the Internet. It is also a popular way for people to stay in touch with friends and relatives who live far away.
webcasts
Leaving a video message for a recipient to pick up later.
video messaging
refers to voice communications over the Internet
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is sometimes called
Internet telephony
VoIP such Vonage, Skype, Grasshopper, Google, and others. Often calls from one country to another are included in your
monthly Internet fee
refers to the many ways individuals and businesses share information and interact using the Internet.
Social media
immediate, interactive, and widespread
is a website that encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other registered users.
A social network, also called a social networking site
provides a listing of the most recent content posted to the network
A news or activity feed
The worldwide collection of blogs, which vary by media, length, and purpose
blogosphere
A video blog consisting of video clips.
vlogs
A website that gathers, organizes, and then distributes web content.
Content aggregators
e.q Reddit
allows users to publish short messages, usually between 100 and 300 characters, for others to read, making it a combination of text messaging and blogging.
microblog
Cities and other municipalities use it, wireless emergency alerts through cellphones, and systems such as Nixle, to send alerts about traffic, severe weather, and missing persons, such as Amber Alerts.
microblogs
focus on family life, social life, or a personal interest or project, such as building a house or planting a garden.
Personal blogs
Blogs that comment on an event while it is taking place, usually in the form of frequent short updates.
live blogs
lets users display and view various types of media.
A media-sharing network
Photos and other posts on social network sites also include information that generally does not appear to site users, called
metadata
Metadata for a picture includes the GPS location coordinates where it was taken, when it was posted, and who posted it. True or false
True
Video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo let users post short videos called
clips
let purchasers post online ratings and reviews of practically any product or service
Consumer review networks
let you have online conversations on any topic
Discussion forum networks
How can a business with locations all over the world ensure that all employees have access to the same knowledge and information?
One way is through wikis
Businesses use wikis in the following ways:
Distributing information, providing a central repository of information, and as a communication tool
A business blog or website often provides links to relevant websites in their field, a practice known as
aggregating content
In the early days of the Internet, a practice that allowed users to mark (or bookmark) websites to which they wanted to return; now largely replaced by social curation.
social bookmarking
sites let users share and save links to websites on selected news topics to target the most relevant, useful, and high-quality information.
Social curation
Personal social curation sites include
where users can “pin” links to digital images and videos into collection
A server on the Internet that manages email accounts and messages.
email server
On and email, all recipients can see those who are
CC
On and email, only the sender can see those who are
BCC
The practice of moving email messages, usually those older than a specified date, to a file or folder separate from your active email.
Archiving
The rules of Internet etiquette.
netiquette
A practice that uses the Internet and the “intelligence of the crowd” to accomplish a task or solve a problem for the benefit of all.
Crowdsourcing
Examples of crowdsourcing include:
Community, creative, skill-based, and location-based projects.
A type of crowdsourcing in which individuals come together on the Internet to provide funding that will support others in an endeavor.
crowdfunding
The records of everything you do online; can be nearly impossible to completely erase.
digital footprint
Information about you that others can find on the Internet.
online reputation
On social media, posting hostile or insulting comments about another online participant; to be avoided.
flaming
On social networks, friends of your friends and their friends.
extended contacts
A social network that brings together people interested in buying similar kinds of products.
Social shopping networks
A social network that is targeted to a particular audience and subject, such as cat lovers or book lovers.
Interest-based networks
A social network in which people rent out things they own, such as a car, a tool, or a room in their house.
sharing economy networks
How can you find only the blogs you’re interested in?
Blog directories and search blog sites
On a forum, an online discussion site where people with a common interest participate in a conversation by posting messages
message board or internet forum
An instant message conversation that consists of text exchanges.
thread
An app that lets you send messages without including your identity.
Anonymous messaging apps
The most successful microbloggers post content at least once a day, including personal updates or observations, brief opinion statements, links to online content, reactions to events, and other types of short information.True or false
True
An application that lets you compose, send, receive, store, and delete email messages.
email client
Blogging software.
blogware
software that lets a group of users maintain and publish content of all kinds, but especially for websites
content management system (CMS)
