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| Original law in 1927 for gov regulation of U.S. broadcasting. Big Question was if this act would work for regulation of TV as well? |
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| Federal Communications Act |
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| created to expand the scope of regulation to TV. The revision of the Federal Radio Act that occurred in 1934 in order to include TV. |
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| Invented the electronic technology for television. |
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| [image]heavy duty, high capacity wire with with dual electric current conductors. |
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| Original US broadcast infrastructure had two tiers, one of locally licensed stations, the other of national networks. |
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NBC program innovator 1950's. Created the wake up show Today and the precursor to the Tonight Show. |
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| [image]The founder fo CBS Tv. As founder he was part of the creation of I love Lucy and the Twilight Zone. |
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| famous for his World War II radio reporting from Europe. He started "See it Now" He was a pioneer broadcast journalist. |
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| created monday night football. An ABC sports programming innovator in the 1960's and 1970's |
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| His media empires includes FOX and 20th century Fox movies. recruited Barry Diller |
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| recruited by Robert Murdoch to help create profitable fox network programming. Also made some ABC hits. |
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| Early local cable television system. Short for community antenna television. |
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| [image]used orbiting satellite to relay exclusive programs to local cable systems in 1975. Then came the creation of the first cable network HBO, in 1975. |
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| multi systems operator MSO |
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| A company that owns several local cable tv delivery units in different, usually far flung, communities. Timwarner cable, direct tv |
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| when a company is subsumed into the ownership of a competing company. For example Henry's and Sprout's or cingular and AT&T |
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| advance advertisers commitments to buy network advertising time. |
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| larger of the two US satellite-direct companies |
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| viewer controlled access to Content anytime |
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| Digital recording and playback device for TV |
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| ability of viewer to change when they access programming. |
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| Educational television (ETV) |
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| Stations that supplement class room lessons, also extend learning beyond school |
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| [image]FCC chair who called TV a vast wasteland. |
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| Carnegie commision on Educational TV |
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| recommended ETV be converted to the public TV concept. wanted to serve mass audiences[image] |
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| [image]noncommercial TV with an emphasis on quality programs to meet public needs. |
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| Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
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| Quai-governemnt agency that channels tax-generated funds into the US noncommercial TV and radio system.[image] |
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| Public Broadcasting Service |
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| TV network for non commercial over air stations. |
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| early business model for online portals with access limited mostly to proprietary content |
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| once-dominant internet service provider |
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| software to navigate the internet, specifically World Wide Websites. ie safari, earthlink, firefox |
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| [image]designed the pioneer browser netscape |
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| tool to identify and rank websites by key terms. Ranks by the frequency of the word ,typed into the search engine, on each website. |
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| creators of google search engine. idea was tested on a stanford website before. Google is now the dominate search engine[image] |
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| a major search engine and internet services company. Also created by stanford grads. |
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| [image]The founders of Yahoo |
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| economic collapse in internet commerce in 2000 |
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| a system for computer users to exchange messagews through a network |
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| Advanced research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet) |
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| history of email goes back to 1969 when this was created. The military network that preceded the internet. |
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| e-mail message sent indiscriminately to large numbers of recipients. |
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| a journal like web site with continuing narrative, generally personal in nature, on a narrow subject. Short for web log |
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internet messages that originate with an individual to communicate directly with a mass audience.
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| platform for the 140 or fewer character communications among computer and cell phone users. Ashton kutcher was the first to reach 1 million followers. |
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| messages on the twitter platform |
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| refrences to web resources shares among computer users |
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| an identification label for a web site each with a suffix like .com, .org, .gov |
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| corporation for assigned names and numbers |
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| internet cheifs oversight agency ie created .edu for all educational websites |
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| pioneer for online auction site |
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| [image]creator of ebay online auction site |
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| electronic commerce company that unpended traditional book retailing |
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| [image]the creator of amazon online site. originally for selling books. Amazon went live in 1995 |
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| online digital media for consumer downloads, originally music only. |
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| Amazon e-reader to which books and periodicals can be downloaded. |
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| matching advertisers with potential customers with relative precision |
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| using personal information and patterns in activities to match advertisements with potential customers |
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| multi user dungeons MUD's |
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| video games with multi player capabilities. |
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| video games sponsored by an advertiser to promote sales |
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| video games that put players in control of a character with make believe situations |
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| video games in which players interact with one another in situations they create |
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| [image]game designer known mostly for sim city and spin offs. |
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| computeres that collect human intelligence to assess and disseminate |
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| [image]Creator of Second life aka Phillip Linden |
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| any second life character created by a player. the word is adapted from the hindu concept of a soul being released from earthly limitations. |
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| project to put all books in human history online. |
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| from the founding of the colonies to the American Revolution |
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| published Publick Occurrences in Boston in 1690. the first newspaper! |
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| First Colonial newspaper, boston, 1960 |
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Defied Authorities with his New York Journal in 1773 |
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| essays with the diverse views on the form the new nation should take |
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| [image]federalist president |
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| discouraged criticism of government |
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| punished for criticizing the majority party. felt strongly about free expression was a revolutionary war veteran |
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| anti-federalist president |
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| [image]Organized the first methodical news coverage . The first news room and reporting staff. owned the New York Herald |
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| news model that serves the most important information first |
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| [image]late 1800's marked by sensationalism. the quest to sell more copies. |
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| stunt reporter. went into female mental hospital and reported how the patients were being treated |
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| made the san Fran examiner a success hired the yellow kid cartoonist. built circulation with sensationalism |
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news illustrator whose work included spanish american war. helped create war coverage in yellow journalism form. some say that their stories fueled the spanish american war. |
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| updated yellow journalism, often in tabloid format and featuring photography. |
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| a ranking of news that helps decide what makes it into news packages |
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a concept in journalism that news should be told and gathered value free. making choices about what to tell and how to tell it.
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| concluded that the journalists have a typical American value system. This means that their value system was mainstream. this results in ethnocentrism |
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| seeing things on the basis of personal experience and value. |
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| the news media serves as a monitor int the performance of government and other institutions. |
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| space for news in a newspaper after ads are inserted; time in a newscast for news after ads |
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| significance of events worth covering varies from day to day |
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| available staff resources to cover news |
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| consensible nature of news |
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| news organization second-guessing competition in deciding coverage |
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| news sites that regurgitate news complied from elsewhere or that offer pass through links to other sources |
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| information included in news from widely diverse sources of unchecked veracity. a free for all, anyone can say anything |
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| media people influencing messages en route. decides what most deserves to be told and how. |
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| news reporting geared to ever present deadlines at 24/7 formats. |
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| enterprise reporting that revels new info often startling info, most often these stories are that that official sources would have rather not told. |
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| [image]Washington post reporter who dug up watergate |
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| worked with carl bernstein to reveal watergate |
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| fanciful term for digging up dirt but that usually is used in a laudatory way for investigative journalism aimed at public policy reform. |
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| [image]geared toward satisfying audiences info wants and needs. |
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