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Mass Media Ch. 7
Mass Media Chapter 7 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Steve Jobs | Leader of Apple computer who engineered the "digital hub" |
| iPod | Handheld Apple digital music player |
| iTunes | Online Apple music download site |
| iPhone | Handheld Apple smart phone |
| iPad | Ultralight Apple tablet computer with e-book, video, music functions |
| Computer Revolution | Vast increases in human productivity, roughly 1980-1994 |
| Jobs' Model | Three-step developmental model for stages of a new media-centric lifestyle- Computer Revolution, Internet Revolution, Digital Lifestyle |
| Information Revolution | An overarching term for post-1980 fundamental changes triggered by digital technology |
| Internet Revolution | Near-universal, low-cost, accessible and virtually instant communication, albeit mostly text; roughly 1994-2000 |
| Digital Lifestyle | Personal and hand-held computers became a centerpiece of outgoing and incoming communication; roughly 2000 on |
| Walled Garden | Early business model for online portals with access limited mostly to proprietary content |
| America Online (AOL) | Once-dominant internet service provider |
| Steve Case | Built AOL into media giant with walled- garden model |
| Browser | Software to navigate the internet to countless web sites |
| Marc Andreessen | Software wunderkind who designed pioneer browser Netscape |
| Silicon Valley | Area near San Francisco noted for computing and electronics industries |
| Netscape | First of browsers |
| Search Engine | Tool to identify and rank web sites by key terms |
| Crawler | Computer program that scours the web to create an index of sites |
| Dominant search engine | |
| Sergey Brin, Larry Page | Creators of Google search engine |
| Android | Google operating system for smartphones |
| Yahoo | A major search engine and internet services company |
| David Filo, Jerry Yang | Founders of Yahoo |
| Dot-com bust | Economic collapse of most investments in internet commerce in 2000 |
| A system for computer users to ex-change messages through a network | |
| Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet) | Military network that preceded internet |
| Spam | E-mail message sent indiscriminately to large numbers of recipients |
| Texting | Brief typed message over internet between portable devices |
| Blog | A journal-like web site with continuing narrative, generally personal in nature, on a narrow subject. Short for web log |
| User-generated content | Internet messages that originate with an individual to communicate directly with a mass audience |
| Social networking service | |
| Myspace | Social entertainment networking service |
| Flikr | Image and video hosting website |
| YouTube | Video-sharing website |
| Platform for 140 or fewer character communications among computer and cell phone users | |
| Tweets | Messages on the Twitter platform |
| Passed links | References to web sources shared among computer users |
| Domain Name | An identification label for a web site, each with a suffix like .com, .org, .gov |
| Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | Internet's chief oversight agency |
| Pierre Omidyar | Creator of eBay online auction site |
| eBay | Pioneer online auction site |
| Amazon.com | Electronic commerce company that upended traditional book retailing |
| Jeff Bezos | Created Amazon online site, originally for selling books |
| iTunes Store | Online digital media for consumer downloads, originally music |
| Kindle | Amazon e-book to which books and periodicals can be downloaded |
| Targeted Marketing | Matching advertisers with potential customers with relative precision |
| Like Button | A thumbs-up Facebook widget to identify cohorts of potential customers |
| Behavioral Targeting | Using personal information and patterns in activities to match advertisements with potential customers |
| Google Books Library Project | Project to put all books in human history online |