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Midterm Flashcards

1
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Media

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one of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television.

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New Media

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Emerging Digital media

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3
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How we got to now:

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Human senses–>gesture–>signs–>speech–>cave paintings–>pictogram–>ideogram–>logographic writing–>phonographic writing

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Human senses and limitation

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Foundation of experience; limitation: only input

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Gestures and limitation

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Produce signals; limitation: real-time, physical objects

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Signs and limitation

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Semiotics; abstract/not just about what is present; limitation: real-time

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Speech and limitation

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More variety, easier, distance; limitation: real-time

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Cave painting and limitation

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Permanence! Limitation: clarity, non-abstract things

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Pictogram and limitation

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Standardized, sequence; can be repeated; limitation: clarity

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Ideogram and limitation

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Abstraction; limitation: clarity

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Logoraphic writing and limitation

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(Ie, Chinese); grammar, standardization; limitation: can’t keep adding words

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Phonographic writing

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Infinite!

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13
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Papyrus:

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Solved problem of durability/permanence/portability

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14
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Greek semaphore

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Needed infrastructure; limit to line of sight and weather

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Couriers

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letters lost, trust messenger, must know where to go

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16
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Early newspapers

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First mass communication

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17
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Printing Press and Movable Type

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Now have speed and copies

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Typewriter

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Available to individuals

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19
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Telegraph

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1st electronic communication; real time transmission

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Innovations by Digital revolution

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Ability to perfectly reproduce info ad infinitum at a cost over time asymptotically close to zero; ability to store and process info at a scale beyond human ability

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21
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ASCII

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American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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HDD

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Hard disk drive- spinning

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SSD

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Solid state drive- uses integrated circuits to store data electrically

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Byte

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8 bits

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CPU

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Central Processing Unit; brain/clock (linear)

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Why are CPUs multicore?

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Faster–>more heat and also getting smaller and smaller; lowers heat and lowers power consumption

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GPU

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Graphics Processing Unit; parallel

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SoC

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System on a Chip (Smartphones)

29
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RAM

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Random Access memory (working memory); nothing is permanent

30
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Pixel

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Picture element

31
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Retina Display

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Apple marketing term; number of pixels packed in

32
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CRT

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Crystal Ray Tube; emits electrons into pixel grid

33
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LCD

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Liquid crystal display; electric current over crystals and LED backlight

34
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Plasma Display

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Ionized gases create bright light

35
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OLED

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Organic light emitting diode; individual light turned on and off at each spot (Apple watch)

36
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USB 3

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Non-reversible; too big

37
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USB C

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Smaller; will take over

38
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Thunderbolt

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Apple display port

39
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Lightning

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First reversible cable; iOS

40
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HDMI

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High Def Multimedia Interface

41
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VGA

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Video Graphics Adaptor

42
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ARPA

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Advanced Research Projects Agency

43
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ARPANET

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Early packet switching network; first to implement TCP/IP

44
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Robert Metcalf

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Ethernet at Xerox PARC 1973

45
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Minitel

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France 1978

46
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Tim Berners Lee

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Invented World Wide Web 1991 on a NEXT computer at CERN

47
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Internet takeover

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1% in 1993, 51% in 2000, 97% in 2007

48
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Joseph Licklider

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Invented Intergalactic Computer Network

49
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1982

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ARPANet networking standard publicly available

50
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1985

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First .com address

51
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Network Packets

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circuit switching: single uninterrupted wire connection; packet switching: packages, increases bandwidth and number of computers

52
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IP

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Internet protocol; (172.194.121.32=google.com)

53
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DNS

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Domain name system- layer on top of IP

54
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Internet

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Any set of network computers that communicate over Internet Protocol

55
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Web

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Layer on top of internet with publicly available addresses and docs linked to other docs

56
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Router

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Distributes internet to computers

57
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Modem

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Interprets from internet service provider

58
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URL

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Uniform Resource Locator- way we specify where on a site we want to go

59
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TLD

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top level domain (.gov, .com)

60
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web server

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computer mozilla is running on

61
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HTTP

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Hypertext transfer protocol- how is website being communicated from one to the other one

62
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Ethernet

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Main wired interface for connecting computers to local area networks

63
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Wifi

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Main wireless interface for connecting computers to local area networks

64
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Dial-Up Internet

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Over existing phone lines

65
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DSl

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Digital subscriber line; copper like dial up but for data only

66
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Fiber

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Fiberoptic cables; sends pulses of light

67
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When did the term new media become big?

68
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First permanent form of communication

A

Cave painting

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