Final

Question 1

Metcalfes law

Answer 1

The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users in the system (n2)

Question 2

Moores Law

Answer 2

Computing doubles every 18-24 month at same size and same cost

Question 3

Diana Kimball: history of pocket technology (5)

Answer 3

Radio circuit > cellular:analog > cellular: digital > broadband:cdma > broadband LTE

Question 4

Kate Shilton

Answer 4

Participatory Sensing

Question 5

Ludology

Answer 5

Specific to games studies. How games are goal driven but also an experience of play

Question 6

Narratology

Answer 6

Thinking about the game as a sort of story telling:drama with structure

Question 7

Games theory

Answer 7

analysis of strategies for dealing with competitive situations where the outcome of a participant’s choice of action depends critically on the actions of other participants. Game theory has been applied to contexts in war, business, and biology.

Question 8

Golden Age

Answer 8

Late 70s-early 80s. Computing power increases and size decreases

Question 9

Sandbox games

Answer 9

Creative productive versions of creating identity and worlds

Question 10

Gameificaton

Answer 10

Captures how you can turn anything into a game and it will help people learn: edu-tainment

Question 11

Rewards culture

Answer 11

People get used to getting positive reinforcement

Question 12

Audience commodity in games

Answer 12

Games open door of exploitation of children, turning them into something that can generate profit

Question 13

Role playing

Answer 13

Games where you have to play cooperatively with other people

Question 14

Casual games

Answer 14

Candy crush, words with friends

Question 15

Anita sakessian

Answer 15

Feminist frequency, stereotyped women in video games.need to diversify

Question 16

3 ways of diversifying game development

Answer 16

Online authoring tools, crowdfunding models to take away production from big studios, digital distribution

Question 17

Charles Davis

Answer 17

Creative industry deliberately produce culture as a product or service and copyright protected: film, tv, music

Question 18

3 aspects of new media

Answer 18

IT/communications networks/digitilized content

Question 19

Newness

Answer 19

Relative, historical and mediated

Question 20

TCP/IP

Answer 20

Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

Question 21

Properties of www

Answer 21

Open and decentralized, hypertext documents, easy to use

Question 22

Circuit of culture

Answer 22

Representation, regulation, identity, consumption, production

Question 23

Affordances (3)

Answer 23

Unexpected results from tech, uses of tech (social) can shape tech, negotiation

Question 24

Technical agency

Answer 24

Shapes behaviour of users, controls freedom abilities

Question 25

GUI originally crafted by

Answer 25

Xerox star

Question 26

Semiotics

Answer 26

Teaches cultural meanings are political and related to power and ideology

Question 27

Meme

Answer 27

Richard Dawkins: gene+mimeme ( to imitate)concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

Question 28

Limor shipman

Answer 28

Hyper signification

Question 29

Erving golfmann

Answer 29

Dramaturgy: performative

Question 30

Computer mediated communication: rains and wellman

Answer 30

Personal, interacting with multiple people

Question 31

Haythorne Thwaite

Answer 31

Strong, weak and latent ties: multiple channels

Question 32

Andrew watts

Answer 32

Identity for global engagement

Question 33

Imagined collective

Answer 33

Imagine yourself to be part of a group, always in communication

Question 34

Disintermediation

Answer 34

Opening new platforms based on sharing economy- proams

Question 35

Common carriage

Answer 35

The principle that internet service providers should enab,e access to all content without favouring

Question 36

Copyright

Answer 36

Auto given to literary and artistic works

Question 37

Copyleft

Answer 37

Alt licences such as Creative Commons

Question 38

Lawrence Lessing

Answer 38

Internet regulators are law, norms, market and architecture

Question 39

Information highway advisory council

Answer 39

Formed to consider the implications and recommend actions for the government on digital info arrival in homes concerns

Question 40

IHAC CONCERNS AREAS

Answer 40

Create jobs, reinforces culture and provide access

Question 41

Aggregate data

Answer 41

Taking a whole bunch of people's information to make clusters to bring out patterns and trends

Question 42

Context collapse

Answer 42

When you post something you have an imagined audience, sometimes people's are seeing your info that are not apart of your imagined audience

Question 43

Affordances of network publics

Answer 43

Persistence, replicability, scalability and search ability