Information Society - The exchange of information is the predominant economic activity
Mass Communication - one-to-many, with limited audience feedback
Digital - Computer readable information formatted 1s and 0s
Smartphone - Mobile phone that can access the internet
Analog - Uses continuously varying signals corresponding to the light or sounds
originated by the source
Apps - Software applications for use on smartphones
Channel - Electronic or mechanical system that links the source to the reciever
Convergence - The integration of mass media, computers, and telecommunications
Telecommunications Act of 1996 - Federal regulation that deregulated the
communications media
Copyright - The legal right to control intellectual property; with it comes the legal
privilege to use, sell, or license creative works
Net Neutrality - Users are not discriminated against based on the amount or nature of
the data they transfer on the internet
Digital Divide - Gap in Internet usage between rich and poor, Anglos and minorities
Information Workers - Create, process, transform, or store information
Interactive - Communication uses feedback to modify a message as it is presented
Source-Message-Channel-Reciever (SMRC) - Model of mass communication describes
the exchange of information as the message passes from the source to the channel to
the receiver, with feedback to the source
Gatekeepers - Decide what will appear in the media
Social Media - Media whose content is created and distributed through social interaction
Communication - An exchange of meaning
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