linguistic capitalism - internet search business model
makes money off of searches - biggest player is Google
digital capitalism - electronic commerce
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ex: Amazon
deterritorialization - when communication moves from one territory to another
global communication - communication that is potentially receivable and interacted with in virtually all parts of the world - all interconnected
communication - derived from the Latin word "communicare"
(V): to share out, to impart, to make common
(N) communicatio: communication
international communication - communication across national borders, originally government to government communication
as a field of study: cultural, economic, political, social, and technical analysis of communication and media patterns and effects across and between states
globalization - the interconnection of nations, cultures, and peoples through information and communication technologies (ICTs)
digital divide - the gap between those who have access of information and communications technologies and those who don't; it exists between and within countries and regions of the world
media - plural of "medium"; comes from Latin word "medius": middle, neutral
transplantation - moving communication, language, and culture to a different place
telegraph - 1st intercommunication - USA by Morse
technological determinism - media change societies irrespective of their content
al-jabr - algebra
algorithms - instructions that make computers work (the search bar)
international communication - the craft of communicating across national borders, through the media in real space and cyberspace, to specifically defined and targeted national or regional opinion leaders, linguistic, cultural, religious, or ethnic publics and audiences in other countries
governmental international communication - information dissemination, propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural, and linguistic proximity, national influence, and prestige
examples: BBC, VoA, NHK, Al-Jazeera
commercial international communication - carried out by transnational commercial broadcasters like CNN, O Globo, MSNBC, Sky News, Fox News, etc. for purposes of informational capitalism
tele - (Latin) communication, to communicate across distance
television - to see far, to see images from a far
video - i see
audio - i hear
Chiappe Telegraph - 1792, globalization driven by innovations in information and communication technologies
Samual Morse - electronic telegraph 1833
Alexander Bell - invented telephone in 1876
Heinrich Hertz - proved existence of electromagnetic spectrum in 1880
Gulielmo Marconi - invented the radio 1901
convergence - fusion of different media and technologies
MPEG - moving pictures experts group
MPEG3 - digital audio
MPEG4 - digital video
graphics compression - encoding
MPEG-DASH - information technology - dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (hyper text transfer protocol)
encoding and decoding - moves things from physical space to cyber space [Show Less]