Early Technologies
This technology was the immediate precursor to the electromagnetic telegraph
What is the optical telegraph?
This nickname was used for the group of early major film studios
What was the Big Five?
This medium is the most important precursor to television
What is radio?
This US defense agency developed the precursor to the Internet
What is ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)?
The name used to classify new, algorithmically-driven police applications
What is predictive policing?
These manually produced portraits from specialized studios were extremely popular precursors to the modern photograph
What are daguerreotypes?
Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company was commonly known by this name
What is the Trust?
This television program was cancelled for its direct involvement in the "quiz show scandal"
What is Twenty-One?
This technological innovation allowed information to be broken down into separate bits and sent independently over a network
What is packet switching?
The name Cathy O'Neill gives to potentially unrepresentative, biased, or unfair algorithms that wield a lot of power
What are Weapons of Math Destruction?
This organization/agency was the first to use radio on a mass scale
What is the Navy?
The film The Jazz Singer (1927) is most famous for being this
What is the first full-length talkie film?
This pivotal civil rights march helped propel the movement to national attention when broadcast on TV in 1965
What is the Selma March? (or: What is the March from Selma to Montgomery?)
The Internet of Things has persuaded many people to give up privacy in exchange for this
What is convenience?
Uber is a prime example of start-ups driving this new type of economy designed to maximize use of private/under-exploited resources like spare rooms in your home
What is the sharing economy?
This name of this medium is derived from the French, meaning "writing at a distance"
What is telegraphy/the telegraph?
The two main functions of film genres
What are product standardization and product differentiation?
The term describing how previously distinct media forms are merging through new digital technologies, such as television streaming
What is convergence?
Information production is today so large that it is now being measured by this unit
What is a zettabyte?
Applications like PredPol use this kind of predictive model to anticipate where and when crime is likely to spread
What is a contagion model?
APOCUMNOSOMETHA is an example of this kind of security system in telegraphy
What is a cipher?
The voluntary system that restricted film depictions of violence, crime, drug use and sexual behavior in Hollywood prior to 1967
What is the Motion Picture Production Code (or Hays Code)?
The model for assessing how active audiences engage with, negotiate, and interpret media messages developed by Stuart Hall
What is Encoding/Decoding?
This type of meme consists of small variations on a recognizable original image/text
What is a founder-based meme?
Two potential concerns raised by new predictive applications (e.g. PredPol), according to critics
What are the potential for bias, profiling, unrepresentative results, breach of privacy, constitutional rights violations