Digital Media & Tech Ch. 1-2

a website or web application where headlines and other content are collected for easy viewing. Aggregators such as Google News compile news articles and posts.

• Aggregator

• Blog

• P2P (Peer-to-Peer)

• Podcast

• Media

a type of website usually updated by an individual or a group of bloggers. Some blogs provide news or opinions on a specific subject, while others are more like online journals. Most blogs allow readers to leave comments on blog posts.

• Flaming

• Digital Media

• Text Message (SMS)

• Blog

• Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)

the act of saying mean things online, usually in ALL CAPS, and often in a public forum with the intention to humiliate.

• Media

• Digital Media

• Flaming

• Strategy

• Effective

usually an online virtual world that multiple players navigate and play in together. While in this virtual world, their avatars chat, cooperate, and quest together, oftentimes towards a goal.

• Text Message (SMS)

• Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)

• P2P (Peer-to-Peer)

• Podcast

• Aggregator

network allows for sharing of mp3s, videos, and other digital files by transferring information directly between two computers rather than by going through a central server.P2P technology is also behind the popular Internet phone service Skype.

• Aggregator

• Blog

• Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)

• P2P (Peer-to-Peer)

• Text Message (SMS)

A downloadable video or audio file. Podcasts can be verbal, based on a certain topic,or can include music, video, and commentary.

• Media

• Podcast

• Flaming

• Blog

• Efficient

A short message of fewer than 160 characters sent from a cell phone

• Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)

• P2P (Peer-to-Peer)

• Blog

• Media

• Text Message (SMS)

A text message that contains an attached multimedia file, such as a picture or song.

• Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)

• P2P (Peer-to-Peer)

• Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)

• Text Message (SMS)

• Digital Media

Communication, including television, radio, and newspapers, that often reaches and impacts a large audience

• Media

• Traditional Media

• Digital Media

• Flaming

• Podcast

Electronic devices and media platforms such as computers, cell phones, the Internet, digital video, social networking sites, video games, and virtual worlds that allow users to create, communicate, and interact with one another orwith the device or application itself

• Media

• Traditional Media

• Digital Media

• Podcast

• Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)