Exam 3 Mass Media

Ideographs

An abstract symbol that stands for a word or phrase. The written forms of the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages use ideographs.

why was the internet invented

to let computers talk to eachother

who would want computers to communicate

the military

URL

The address of content placed on the wed 

http

The standard set of rules used by web servers and browsers for sending and receiving text, graphics, or anything else on a website

HTML

The programming language used to create web pages 

ARPAnet (1969)

evolution of the internet ( U.S. Military research network)

Paul Baran 

helped create communication networks, helped us survive strike from the soviet union during the cold war (mar 12,1947- dec 26, 1991), grew up in poland 

world wide web (1989)

was almost totally developed as a collaborative, nonprofit venture, the basic tech is free

Steven Levy

Creator of Hacker Ethic

hacker ethic

a set of values stating users should have absolute control of their device and have free access to all information on it 

Levy’s 4 key principles

access to computers, all information is free, mistrust authority, you should be judged by skill ( not race, age, degree, position)

youtube 2005

founded by 3 friends at a dinner party chad,steven, and jawed

facebook 2004

created by mark zuckerberg ( college dropout)

Instagram 2010

facebook bought in 2012

snapchat 2011

the disappearing photo created by reggie brown, bobbie murphy, evan spiegel

twitter 2006

founded by 3 college dropouts evan williams, jack dorsey, and biz stone

tiktok

founded by ByteDance, global version of Douyin

examples of sports media coverage

doping, fashion, difference in gender stats, gendered violence, women athletes and social justice, black reporters covering black athletes, transgendered athletes in sports

NHL june 16,2022

NHL signed with Disney paying the league 400 million annually in the US

pickleball

waters, highest-paid pickleball player in 2024, over 3 million

2028 olympics

lacrosse, cricket, squash, flag football

Esports audience growth

1.41 billion by 2025

Gen-z changing interest

gaming> american football> soccer

why e-sports

usually study more, teaches teamwork, and challenges the mind

carson king

made a sign on college gameday with venmo for beer, racist comments from 16 resurface, gets cancelled

writing originated in

350 BC in the Middle East 

spoken language

40,000 years old

timeline

1. Pictograph

2. Ideograph

2a. Emojis

1. Phonography

2. Alphabet

papyrus

( used to write on it with the blood of animals) An early form of paper made from the papyrus reed, developed by the Egyptians around 3100 BCE.

parchment

( comes from animal skins) An early form of paper made from the skin of goats or sheep, which was more durable than papyrus.

paper

A writing material made from cotton rags or wood pulp; invented by the Chinese between 240 BCE and 105 BCE.

Order

1. Papyrus

2. Parchment

3. Paper 

Johannes GutenBerg

first printing press, printed his edition of the Bible (1455) ( one sold for 5.39 million) 

Froot Loops boycott (canada)

promoting “woke” ideas, BGC backed them, people stopped putting kids in BGC, understand target audience

censorship

generally, censorship efforts in the USA are local rather than national in scope

Book ban 

up by 38%

Challenge a book

an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based on objection of person or group

banning a book

the removal of those materials

banned and challenged classics 

the catcher in the rye, to kill a mockingbird, the color purple, the great gatsby 

hypertext markup language (HTML)one of the three major components of the web; the programming language used to create and format web pages