MIL Quiz 4 (no 3) 2nd Semester Final Term

Prehistoric

Time prior to recorded history

Petroglyphs

• 30000 BCE - 10000 BCE

• Carvings on stone

• Images of humans, animals, and geometric shapes

Hieroglyphs

• Sacred writing

• Nouns, verbs, linguistic rules

Angono Petroglyphs

One of the most endangered national cultural treasure sites

Rosetta Stone

• 196 BCE

• Three scripts, including Demotic and Ancient Greek

• Helped experts comparatively decipher the system of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and unlock other mysteries

Printing Press

• 1400 CE

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Start of mass printing

Phoenician Script

Mother of all phonemic alphabet

Printing

Mechanical or electronic process of reproducing identical writings or images based on an original

Moveable Type Printing

Chinese pioneered in ca. 1040

Gutenberg’s Movable Metal Type

ca. 1439-1450, relying on an alphabet with only a fedw letters

Pamphleteering

Circulation of unbound booklets

Katipunan

Was multiplied when they printed and secretly circulated the newsletter Kalayaan

Henry Mill’s Typewriter

• 1714

• Instantaneous printing

Word Processing

More control over what happens on the surface of the page

Digital Publishing

Gives publisher leeway for updating and erasing

Historiography

Writing of history

Philippine Revolution

• 1896

• Use of newspapers like Kalayaan and writings of Jose Rizal

Motion Picture

• 1895

• Lumiere Brothers

• First films shown to the public

El Ilocano

Used print to converse in the vernacular with his own people

El folk-lore Filipino

Reinstated the value of local knowledge on a world stage dominated by print culture

Mass Culture

Shared values, attitudes, practices, and aspirations of masses of people from a common exposure to the same media

Samuel Morse’s Telegraph

• 1837

• First electronic communication medium

Bell’s Telephone

• 1876

• Improved the telegraph by phasing out the abstraction of Morse code in favor of human talk

Radio Music Box

• 1900s

• Turned limitations of point-to-point telegraphy into the possibilities of broadcast

Elizabeth L. Enriquez

Tells the parallel history of radio in the Philippines

Brave New World

Portrays a speculative society thoroughly defined by technological conditioning

Thomas Edison’s Phonograph

• 1877

• Audio-tape recording

Apps

Computer software designed to perform specific tasks

Dialogic

Continuous dialogue extended in many different directions including many different works

Daguerre

• 1839

• Photography

Star

Not an actual person, but a ‘text’ produced through ‘promotion, publicity, films, and criticism’

Fans

• Short for ‘fanatic’

• Someone devoted to an idol

Fandom/Fanbase

Collection of fans

Economic Capital

Convertible to money

Cultural Capital

Nonfinancial assets (education, fashion sense, media test)

Spectacle of Social Relations

Promoting both a unified culture and complacency toward oppression

Commodified Culture

Produces a consumerist audience that buy and perpetuate the culture

Site of Negotiation

Where the media producer intends to mean something with a message

Computer

‘electronic calculator’, envisioned to be an electronic

Hypertext

Text that is linked to other texts

World Wide Web

Hyperlinks information through a web of networked nodes anywhere

Modem

Encodes and decodes different kinds of signals into digital information

Browsers

Allows people to easily log on to and navigate through the world wide web

Cloud Computing

Enables people to gain access to shared computing resources

Cloud

Figurative term picturing activities that are hidden somewhere and yet to be found

Slefie

Self-portrait usually with a digital camera

Groupfie

Selfie with a group

Timeline

Petroglyphs → Rosetta Stone → Printing Press → Philippine Revolution (Print Media) → Telegraph → Radio → Motion Picture → Internet → New Media