Exam 1 Flashcards
(38 cards)
Define Culture in media
The way people live in represent themselves in a particular society at a particular time
What is produced in distributed within the mass meeting culture industries
Songs, video games, movies, news, Internet services, and other cultural products to a large number of people
Three points that defined the reality of culture
Competing value struggle, some values becoming mainstream, other values, becoming marginal.
Why are media technologies, an important part of culture?
Influence how people communicate and how society gathers usestransmits and saves information
What are The five overlapping eras of media
Oral written, print, electronic and digital
Define convergence
A term used to describe the changes brought on by the digital transition
Define participatory culture
a culture in which it is relatively easy for people to create and share their own content and build connections with others
Define fragmentation
Infinite variety, or media categorized for us in several forms
Defined the three roles of media
Media, consumer, actively wants to view media
media producer, actively creates media
media citizen lives in a society with media
What is the four elements of cultural context in media?
Media text
media industries
media users
media technologies
What are media texts?
Anything that contains meaning or communicates information a text is anything people read or interpret
What are media technologies?
The tools and devices, we used to create send and receive messages, retrieve information and manage our relationship with the world
What is high culture?
Media and Art that a society teams to be more valuable
What is low culture?
Media and Art Society deemed less valuable?
What was Web 1.0
The early internet in the 1990s it was read only
What was Web 2.0
Changed the web from being a read-only system to a read/write or interactive place
What is Web 3.0
The current form of the Internet is an Internet of things it is integrated into almost every part of our environment
Define online communities
Community of like-minded people from all over the world that communicate over the Internet
Define decentralizing
Because there are all kinds of media for each person there’s no longer one thing that everyone is consuming together
Define manipulating media
People are able to create and communicate by mixing editing, combining, manipulating or repurposing existing texts.
What is significant about the Stanford artificial intelligence lab?
They hosted the first video game tournament in October 1972
Mass production mass consumption
When something gets extremely popular it needs to be produced on a mass scale to meet the mass demand
What are the four major platforms for video games?
Consuls, handheld computer and Internet
What is mechanical gaming?
The first seeds of the modern entertainment, industry, or plant by series of coin operated contraptions devoted to cashing in idleness
