C. 10 "Online Media: The Internet, Social Media, & Video Games"

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Marc Andreessen

-Founded Netscape -Led the team for Mosaic, the first easy-to-read graphical web browser

Bob Taylor

-Helped oversee the creation of ARPAnet -Believes computers are "much more interesting and powerful as communication devices because they mediate human-to-human communication"

Donald Davies

-In England, working on a proposed public communication network at same time as Baran -Came up with very similar notion of packet switching as Baran

Everything is Data

-More and more media being delivered digitally -Mobile phones often have unlimited talk time and text messages, but definite limits on data use -Streaming services replacing satellite/cable for many subscribers -Cable companies experimenting with streaming apps to replace set-top cable boxes

hacking the 2016 presidential election

-Russian internet research agencies set up fake social media accounts to promote dissension on controversial issues -Russia today at sputnik spread false stories on social media -Russian hackers stole $1,000s of Democratic e-mails & shared them -Russian hackers broke into voter registration systems, no sign they changed votes however

ISP (Internet Service Provider)

-a company that provides access to the Internet -you choose a cable/phone/or small local company that sells internet service, the messages then flow from smaller links to bigger digital pipelines (internets backbone), then carries messages across the country

Blogs

-collection of links/commentary in hypertext -boomed in late 1990s, many began to focus on niche issues -writers talk directly to readers, bypassing legacy media -some blogs had an impact

Weblog (blog)

A collection of links and commentary in hypertext form on the World Wide Web that can be created and posted on the internet with relatively little effort. Blogs can be public diaries, collections of photos, or commentaries on the news.

Electronic Mail (Email)

A message sent from one computer user to another across a network

Cyberpunk

A style of writing and movies that deal with the blurring of the lines between humans and computers

Keah Brown

Black & disabled inventor of the hashtag #disabledandcute

Media Convergence

Bringing together traditional legacy media with online media

Neda Agha-Soltan

College student forced to withdraw due to pressure over her attire. Protestor in post-election 2009. Shot in the heart by a Basij militia member. Inspired the opposition movement.

Ray Tomlinson

Developed software to send messages between people using the "@" sign

instant messaging (IM)

Email systems that allow two or more users to chat with one another in real time, hold virtual meetings that span multiple cities or even countries, and keep track of which of their "buddies" are currently logged on to the system.

YouTube

Founded by Hurley, Chen & Karim in 2005 to easily share videos with each other

97%

How much do teens aged 12-17 play video games?

citizen journalism

Journalism created by people other than professional journalists, often distributed over the internet.

Instagram

Krieger and Systrom. 2010- a free photo and video sharing service geared to mobile phones, bought by Facebook in 2012

video game stars

Mario, Sonic & Pikachu

hypertext

Material in a format containing links that allow the reader to move easily from one section to another and from document to document. The most commonly used hypertext documents are web pages.

Stephen Segaller

Noted the three things that turned the internet into a significant social force (1990s)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

One of the three major components of the web; a method of sending text, graphics, or anything else over the internet from a server to a web browser.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

One of the three major components of the web; the address of content placed on the web.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

One of the three major components of the web; the programming language used to create and format web pages.

eSports

Organized video game team competition for an audience on streaming, cable, or broadcast television. Can also be played in front of a live audience.

The Notion of Cyberspace

Taken from the word cybernetics - Science of Communication & Control Theory

Mosaic

The first easy-to-use graphical web browser, developed by a group of student programmers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

William Gibson

The man who invented cyberspace

Enquire

Tim Berner-Lee's first program to organize docs, lists of people, and projects on his computer

1. World Wide Web code posted to the internet 2. Commercial users allowed 3. The first easy to use web browser

What are the three things that turned the internet into a significant social force?

89%

What percent of adults were somehow online in 2018?

Academic researchers

What were the initial intentions of the packet-switching network?

Reverse synergy

When you get the worst of both by combining old and new media

US Air Force

Who built the first nationwide packet-switching network?

Broadband Service

a cable modem from a cable television provider or a digital subscriber line (DSL) from a phone company, offers connections that are many times faster than dial-up service

Internet

a diverse set of interdependent networks, interlinked to provide its users with the appearance of a single, uniform network

Digital Native

a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age.

World Wide Web

a system that allows users to view and link documents located anywhere in the world using standard software

Chris Anderson

argued that the age of open-standard web pages was on the decline, leading the way to going online with specialized mobile apps

Dan Rather & George W. Bush

blog reports brought down this former CBS anchor after he mishandled a story on the president at the time

ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency)

built in 1968 to connect 4 UCLA, Stanford, UCSB, & uUtah- the first network

Commercial Networks

companies such as CompuServe, Prodigy, & AOL that provided nonacademic access to internet services

TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)

controls how data are sent out on the internet, & provides the address for each computer on the internet

Brandon Stanton

created the "Humans of New York" project

Tim Berners-Lee

creator of the World Wide Wb in 1991

Bob Khan and Vint Cerf

creators of TCP/IP so independent networks could communicate with each other

Packet Switching

cuts messages into little pieces and sends them along the easiest route to their final destination

Twitter

developed in 2006 by 3 college dropouts (Williams, Dorsey, & Stone) so people could communicate with short messages (140 c)

Walled Garden

early business model for online portals with access limited mostly to proprietary content

Barack Obama

first candidate to advertise in video games

Facebook

founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 on the "walled garden" & advertising premises

AOL's Instant Messenger (AIM)

grandfather of instant messaging

Ted Nelson

inventor of hypertext

video consoles

media content devices

Paul Baran

military inventor of Packet Switching as tech to survive a nuclear strike

Snapchat

most popular social media for young people, temporary, private, & candid

The Blair Witch Project

movie that showed how interaction on the web could draw in viewers

Netscape

one of the first of browsers

Social Networking

online groups where friends or like-minded people share what they post online

Doug Engelbart

originated the idea of the web, ahead of his time and largely ignored

Customization

people can make their social network pages unique with headers & profile pictures

Apps

small, downloadable software programs that allowed the internet to go mobile easier

Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association

struck down a California law that prohibited the sale of video games to minors that depict "killing, maiming, dismembering or sexually assaulting an image of a human being"

Comments

this interaction can range from extensive online debates to things as simple as "liking" a photo on Facebook

Tagging

when people mark photos and text in which they are featured, includes hashtags

User-created generated content

written words, photos, podcasts, and streaming audio & video uploaded by users

Steven Levy

wrote the book "Hackers", book that laid out the principles of hacker culture before the internet became a popular mass medium


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