CS101 Lecture : CS 101
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Pull media: messages requested by the receiver (radio because you are able to turn to buy something specific) Push media: messages sent to the receiver with/without prior consent (voice recording. Push-pull model: some of the control in the communication process shifts to the receiver in grocery store that encourages you on/off) Technological convergence: melding of print, electronic and photographic media into digitalized form. Iinternet site: where an institution establishes its web presence. William gibson: sic-fi writer who coined the term cyberspace. In 1947 semiconductors were created by bell labs: silicon chips that are used in digitization. Compression: technology that makes a message more compact by deleting nonessential underlying code in 1965. Arpanet: military network that preceded internet in 1969. In 1983 national science foundation developed current internet to give scholars access to supercomputers. Internet: a network of computer networks internet2: a network consortium owned by research intuition for fast data transfer. Dark fiber: excess telecommunication capacity available for data transfer.
