Part 1
One of the fastest-growing communication technologies in history; in a little more than thirty years, the mobile communications user base has grown to more than six billion subscribers worldwide.
What is mobile communication technology?
FtF stands for what kind of communication?
What is face-to-face?
Details that could be used to locate/identify or to threaten or harm (for example, email address, birthday, birth year, employer, job position, profile picture, photo albums..)
What is sensitive personal information?
A theory that describes the potential information-carrying capacity of a communication medium.
What is Media Richness Theory?
What is the word 'Halloween' an abbreviation for?
What is All Hallows Eve?
What is consuming content (verbal and visual)?
A group of Internet-based applications that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.
What is Social Media?
People who see and read material posted on SNSs but don’t comment.
What are lurkers?
In social media, not knowing exactly who is reading one’s posts is called
What are collapsing contexts?
What is the traditional name for a pumpkin with a face carved into it, when it is illuminated from within by a candle?
What is a Jack O Lantern?
About 30% of users said they checked this more than thirteen times in a 24 hour period
What is a social networking site or SNS?
Text-based “virtual reality” games in which participants interact with enrichments, objects, and other participants.
What are Massively Multiplayer online Games (MMOGs)?
Posting Internet messages meant to intentionally anger or frustrate in order to provoke reactions from others
What is trolling?
Access to technological skills and resources is called...
What is technocapital?
The author of the famous novel entitled 'Dracula..."
Who is Bram Stoker?
Some experts note that this social networking site has “disrupted” the traditional mass media coverage of sporting events, where spectators are passive audience to televised sporting events.
What is Twitter?
In addition to social media, interactive media also include these two things...
What are text-messaging and e-mail?
This social media blunder can have negative professional impacts; potential employers can access profile information, and according to one study, 34 percent of employers surveyed admit to dismissing a candidate from consideration because of this phenomenon...
What is oversharing?
The inequity of access between the technology “haves” and “have nots”
What is the digital divide?
Who is Mary Shelley?
Social media played an important role in the political turmoil of which event in Egypt and other Mideast countries in 2011—when citizens revolted against and eventually toppled oppressive governments.
What is the Arab Spring?
Interactive Media is a form of what kind of communication?
What is dynamic? (also acceptable is "increasingly mobile")
Allowing the time to formulate thoughts into words, is a phenomenon called_____ which occurs within online communication, and can also be useful when communicating in a foreign language.
What is Asynchronocity?
What are the four levels of access to technocapital
What are mental, material, skills, and usage?
Why did the tradition of fancy dress for Hallowe’en begin?
So that when evil spirits see you, they’ll think you’re one of them and leave you alone.