History of New Media
This woman is widely considered to be the first computer programmer.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
McLuhan is often accused of holding this position, which states that technical design has unavoidable effects on society.
What is technological determinism?
The American Psychological Association says violent media content represents just one factor among many in the causation of this.
What is aggression?
According to social network theorists, people in these are connected to not only people they know, but also people who they don't know very well.
What is a network?
This was the original term (=length) of copyright protection in the UK, established by the Statute of Queen Anne.
What was 14 years?
This UK-based mathematician developed the model for general purpose computers, and created a well known test for distinguishing human from artificial intelligence.
Who was Alan Turing?
Instrumentalism posits that technologies are best characterized as this (a two word, hyphenated phrase).
What is value-neutral?
Whereas 45% of gamers are women, only 22% of this profession are.
What is a game developer?
Nicholas Christakis argues that the most important changes in social networks are due to these sort of forces (word starts with an "s").
What are structural forces?
This is the current term of copyright under USA law.
What is 70 years after the death of the author?
This famous actress invented (but never obtained a patent, nor formal credit for) frequency hopping, a technique later used in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology.
Who was Hedy Lamarr?
This critique of technology holds that ideologies may be hard coded into technical designs (such as "racist highway overpasses").
What is critical theory (or a critical theory-informed approach to technology)?
This massive online backlash toward female critics of womens' representation in gaming communities and games happened in 2014.
What is gamergate?
According to Yochai Benkler, this three word phrase (beginning with the letter "d") characterizes how change happens in the networked economy.
What is decentralized individual action?
This often critical, and typically humorous form of re-working copyrighted works is legally exempt from copyright law under the "Fair Use" doctrine.
What is parody (or satire)?
This device, invented in the 1960s, used in the Texas oilfields, connected a two-way radio to a stationary phone line. This got around AT&T's restriction on using only AT&T phones to connect to their network.
What was Carterfone?
This approach to studying technologies assumes that different user groups have influence on technological design through their everyday (and often unanticipated) uses of things.
What is SCOT (social construction of technology)?
According to Jane McGonigal, these kinds of games (that encourage things like environmental stewardship or other global problems), can potentially change the world.
What are "serious games"?
A recent development in participatory culture, which involves individuals sharing their specialized skills and know-how over digital networks, manifests in these groupings.
What are maker communities?
This principle of internet governance holds that all internet traffic should be treated equally in terms of priority and speed.
What is network neutrality?
This website, created in 2006, allows whistleblowers to blow their whistles anonymously.
What is Wikileaks?
This theory suggests that technology has its own logic, and that when technology becomes a driving force in society, its logic takes over every other aspect of human life.
What is substantivism?
This popular video game attempts to make avatars gender neutral, and is designed to allow players to build their own virtual worlds.
What is Minecraft?
This model of the creative industries (in which the creative industries experience above average growth) is said to be best supported by the data.
What is the growth model?
Dangermouse's The Grey Video metaphorically depicts this.
What is the racial dimension of copyright and music in America?