Vocabulary Flashcards
Abstraction
Willingly ignore certain aspects of reality to have a better grip on other aspects of reality. / Simplifying complex systems (less details - non important)
Automation
Process in which media and technological procedures replace what humans did.
New human-machine relationships
Modes of Address
Adapting both the content and the way you are speaking to the situation.
Geographical space (Straus)
Closed and therefore transparent, it is systematized. Railway traveling causes a lesser balanced and worse relationship between landscape and geography and destroys the relationship between the traveler and the traveled place.
The synthetic philosophy of the glance
The ability to perceive the discrete, as it rolls past the window, indiscriminately.
Panoramic view
Passive, distance experience of landscape passing by.
Optical unconscious
Idea that photographs can capture more than just what is immediately visible to the eye. Makes us aware of our limitations.
Visible invisibility
The revelation of an unseen world that photography does not fully disclose, but makes us aware of it in its invisibility. (Avery Gordon)
Vaudeville
Mass entertainment with mixed programs.
Nickelodeon
Permanent venue for moving images.
Imagined Community
The members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.
Domestication
The process in which a technology is adapted to the private family spaces
Gamification
When activities like language learning are structured by levels, achievements, competition.
Before or after 20th century developments….
use of photography to analyze motion
image creation through machine learning/AI
electrical telegraphy
international standardization of time
20th century
emergence of the internet
experiments with virtual reality
broadcast radio
narrative cinema
What is the historial relationship between computers and simulation?
Simulation existed before but computer allowed for more complex simulation
In his text on the infrastructures of climate science, Paul Edward’s describes how computerization changed climate science. What is his argument?
Computer calculations were used for the re-analysis of data which allowed for more global and historical consistency.
In her text on the early web, Tara McPherskn describes three key characteristics of the web experience in the 1990s. Identify two of these characteristics in the following list:
Transformation
Scan and research
According to paul edward’s, climate sciences account of climate history keep on changing. Why is this the case?
The re-analysis of past data offers new details and new perspectives.
What is the relationship between the internet and the cyberspace?
Cyberspace is one of the metaphors to describe the internet as spatial experience
Tara Mcpherson argues that the experience of the web is related to the wider emergence of post-fordism. What characterizes this?
Increasing valorization of information
Tom gunning and others suggest that the block buster cinema of recent decades is a return to an earlier period of cinema. Which one?
Cinema of attractions
In Mcpherson’s text on the early web in 1990s, she compares the temporal experience of tv and the web, what is her argument?
In contrast to tv, liveness on the web is experienced through activity and choice
What is the term used to refer to the historical period that runs from circa 1800 to circa 1970s?
Modernity
