Exam 1 Flashcards
Define Culture in media
The way people live in represent themselves in a particular society at a particular time
What is produced in distributed within the mass meeting culture industries
Songs, video games, movies, news, Internet services, and other cultural products to a large number of people
Three points that defined the reality of culture
Competing value struggle, some values becoming mainstream, other values, becoming marginal.
Why are media technologies, an important part of culture?
Influence how people communicate and how society gathers usestransmits and saves information
What are The five overlapping eras of media
Oral written, print, electronic and digital
Define convergence
A term used to describe the changes brought on by the digital transition
Define participatory culture
a culture in which it is relatively easy for people to create and share their own content and build connections with others
Define fragmentation
Infinite variety, or media categorized for us in several forms
Defined the three roles of media
Media, consumer, actively wants to view media
media producer, actively creates media
media citizen lives in a society with media
What is the four elements of cultural context in media?
Media text
media industries
media users
media technologies
What are media texts?
Anything that contains meaning or communicates information a text is anything people read or interpret
What are media technologies?
The tools and devices, we used to create send and receive messages, retrieve information and manage our relationship with the world
What is high culture?
Media and Art that a society teams to be more valuable
What is low culture?
Media and Art Society deemed less valuable?
What was Web 1.0
The early internet in the 1990s it was read only
What was Web 2.0
Changed the web from being a read-only system to a read/write or interactive place
What is Web 3.0
The current form of the Internet is an Internet of things it is integrated into almost every part of our environment
Define online communities
Community of like-minded people from all over the world that communicate over the Internet
Define decentralizing
Because there are all kinds of media for each person there’s no longer one thing that everyone is consuming together
Define manipulating media
People are able to create and communicate by mixing editing, combining, manipulating or repurposing existing texts.
What is significant about the Stanford artificial intelligence lab?
They hosted the first video game tournament in October 1972
Mass production mass consumption
When something gets extremely popular it needs to be produced on a mass scale to meet the mass demand
What are the four major platforms for video games?
Consuls, handheld computer and Internet
What is mechanical gaming?
The first seeds of the modern entertainment, industry, or plant by series of coin operated contraptions devoted to cashing in idleness
What was the first video game?
The CRT lead to space wars and oddessy
Define collective intelligence
Ability for us to share knowledge and acknowledge it to others
What are the six exclusive rights granted to you in copyright
Right to reproduce create the derivative works to distribute to perform to display to record
What is the duration of copyright?
Life of the author +70 years
What is not protected by copyright law?
Fax names works at the United States. Government and unfixed works.
What is the main defense to infringement of copyright
Must file in federal court and you must prove you own it and evidence of copying
What are works made for hire?
The employer is deemed owner and author not the employee
What is the derivative work?
Editorial revisions, fictionalization traumatization translations to new languages etc
What is the music licensing collective?
Government agency created by the copyright office to collect streaming
What are the copyright collection societies for music?
BMI ASCAP GMR and SESAC
What is the copyright collection Society for movies?
MBLC
What is sound exchange?
Copyright collection Society for sound recording via digital transmission
What is the digital performance right in sound recordings act of 1995?
Enabled a limited right of performance for sound recordings
What is parody
Parody targets in author or work for humor or ridicule
