Television
Computers
Social Media
Vocabulary
100
What is Infotainment?
Shows that provided entertainment as well as information and tended to revolve around violence.
100
What was the first electronic computer called and where was it developed?
ENIAC, by the University of Pennsylvania
100
What s a blog?
an online journal or newsletter that is updated regularly and easily accessible by any with Internet access.
100
What is a popular social networking site that allows people to connect and remain in contact with family, friends, and other people who study, work, and live nearby?
200
What is a phrase often used to describe the early days of television in the 50s?
The Golden Age of Television
200
What were early computers originally developed for?
They were developed for the military, for mathematical problems.
200
What is social media?
a blanket term used to describe the communities and discussion forums that have formed on the internet.
200
What is the sharing of ideas, technological advances, and other information of the "mind" with the public?
Mindcasting
300
What does television mean?
Seeing at a distance.
300
What is Packet switching?
The process in which large messages could be broken down into smaller, more transmittable "packets."
300
What is the process of announcing to one's followers what one is doing as he/she does it?
Lifecasting
300
What is a podcast?
refers to the digital recording (typically of a radio show or program) that can be downloaded and listened to by users on their computer or other listening device; comes from the merging of "iPod" and "broadcast"
400
Who is responsible for creating television?
It was a multi-national effort
400
What are these?:
Web browsers
400
What is one of the defining features of social media?
that it is created, uploaded, and responded to by the users.
400
What is media that has been recorded and stored on a computer
Digital Media
500
Who began selling televisions to the public?
Dr. Allen DuMont.
500
What is communication that moves in different directions; when users communicate to other users, other groups, and/or other organizations using online media?
Omnidirectional Communication
500
What social media have scientists used for mindcasting, and sharing ideas, technological advances, and other information of the mind?
500
What do you call it when information is linked to other information sources?
Hypertext communication