Media and Technology Flashcards
Cyberfeminism:
The application to promote feminism online.
Design Patents:
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.
Gatekeeping:
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 up without access to technology.
Media:
All print, digital, and electronic means of communication.
Media Consolidation:
A process by which fewer and 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.
