Midterm 1

Question 1

Granularity/Modularity

Answer 1

Mod:
The extent to which a system can be broken down into its various parts

Gran:
size and amount of effort it take to produce a module

Non Modular:
Nuclear powerplant as it needs to be closely monitored

Modular:
Wikipedia lots of people can make small edits and can be verified somewhat easily

Question 2

Social Network

Answer 2

In person or electronic relations formal or informal, This also includes the harm/help new media causes to these things.

Question 3

Network Effects

Answer 3

the value of a network increases exponentially depending on the number of ppl in the network

example: bell and rogers have big companies, bought lots of other companies so small company struggles to build up customers

Question 4

Network Neutrality

Answer 4

company carrying goods cannot discriminate between plpl who wanna transport similar things. Applied in phone pricing and management of internet.

Question 5

Participatory Culture

Answer 5

Culture in which citizens are not just media consumers but also media producers

Question 6

Networked Information Economy

Answer 6

products and services are created and value is added through social networks operating on large or global scales.

Question 7

Electromagnetic Spectrum

Answer 7

Light spectrum, high is gamma, x ray low is radio higher that that is phones/WIFI, this part is called the radio spectrum

Question 8

Convergence (Culture and
Technologies)

Answer 8

various models of technology brought into one thing (modern phone)

Question 9

Digital Divide

Answer 9

gap between those who have internet vs those who don’t, also included speed/access difficulties (slow connection, internet not in your native language)

Question 10

Algorithm

Answer 10

system of instructions to solve a problem, usually for computers

Question 11

Technological Determinism

Answer 11

theory that technology is an autonomous force that changes society. assumes that technology has a causal and controlling power in human affairs, and that it tends to dictate users behaviors

opposite of social determinism ( social shaping of technology)

Question 12

Short Messaging Service (SMS)

Answer 12

text msg, can come from system operators or other phones

Question 13

Social Production

Answer 13

creation of goods/services in a collaborative way. Wikipedia is an example

Question 14

Platform

Answer 14

company that provides a wide service?
Google (searching), Amazon (sales),
Microsoft (software)

Question 15

Social Shaping of Technology

Answer 15

(social determinism) explains technology change by the influence of key social groups

Question 16

Political Economy Approach

Answer 16

theory that say law, economy and political environment interrelated and they establish and keep social order. In regards to new media this focuses on regulations/development of media in the way that government wants

Question 17

Mobile New Media

Answer 17

personal, interactive, internet-enabled and user-controlled portable platform that provides for the exchange of and sharing of personal/non-personal information among users.

Question 18

Web 2.0

Answer 18

Known as social media,
Web 2.0 refers to cites where things happen online via the contributions of the users

Question 19

Hypertext

Answer 19

blue underlines words that provides links on web pages

Question 20

“Long Tail” Economy

Answer 20

business strategy that allows companies to realize significant profits by selling low volumes of hard-to-find items to many customers, instead of only selling large volumes of a reduced number of popular items

Question 21

Social Capital

Answer 21

the assets one has in the form of relationships with others

Question 22

Telegraph

Answer 22

• Used binary code of dots and dashes—Morse code
  was the internet of the 1800s and allowed for Standardized instantaneous communication around the world

Question 23

Medium/Media

Answer 23

Means of accomplishing something or communicating information, an “intervening substance”. Today media includes various tech and it’s audience.

Question 24

Space-Binding/Time-Binding

Answer 24

A time-binding medium (e.g., clay or stone tablets, monuments,
statuary) has great durability and the power to carry messages
across long periods of time, but is incredibly difficult to move

A space-binding medium (e.g., paper, the telegraph) is more
ephemeral and easily destroyed, but can be moved across space
without difficulty

Question 25

Hype

Answer 25

Excitement or potential seen from a new form of media with potential for overestimation of its future impact

Related to New empiricism n counter hype

Question 26

Diffusion of Innovations Model

Answer 26

models the rate of adoption and spread of innovation in social system. it models different categories of users and what they want

Question 27

Dark Patterns

Answer 27

designers use their
knowledge of human behaviour to implement deceptive functionality that is not in the best interest of the user.

Question 28

Radio

Answer 28

Short wave electromagnetic communication

related to advertising and how government took something and commercialized it

Question 29

User-Generated Content

Answer 29

users of the app make the content, ie. instagram

Question 30

Cultural Theory

Answer 30

View new media as a means to develop culture n communication.
Can reflect our biases: Female virtual assistants, racism etc

Question 31

New Empiricism

Answer 31

tries to ground new media studies in real data and the real experiences of those who use media

a break from the earlier utopian and dystopian approaches

An empirical approach to new media tends to
have an “after-the-event” element

related to hype/counter hype