8.6: Key Terms
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- cyberfeminism
- the application to and promotion of feminism online
- design patents
- patents that are granted when someone has invented a new and original design for a manufactured product
- digital divide
- the uneven access to technology around race, class, and geographic lines
- e-readiness
- the ability to sort through, interpret, and process digital knowledge
- evolutionary model of technological change
- a breakthrough in one form of technology that leads to a number of variations, from which a prototype emerges, followed by a period of slight adjustments to the technology, interrupted by a breakthrough
- gatekeeping
- the sorting process by which thousands of possible messages are shaped into a mass media-appropriate form and reduced to a manageable amount
- knowledge gap
- the gap in information that builds as groups grow up without access to technology
- media
- all print, digital, and electronic means of communication
- media consolidation
- a process by which fewer and fewer owners control the majority of media outlets
- media globalization
- the worldwide integration of media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas
- neo-Luddites
- those who see technology as a symbol of the coldness of modern life
- net neutrality
- the principle that all Internet data should be treated equally by internet service providers
- new media
- all interactive forms of information exchange
- oligopoly
- a situation in which a few firms dominate a marketplace
- panoptic surveillance
- a form of constant monitoring in which the observation posts are decentralized and the observed is never communicated with directly
- planned obsolescence
- the act of a technology company planning for a product to be obsolete or unable from the time it’s created
- plant patents
- patents that recognize the discovery of new plant types that can be asexually reproduced
- technological diffusion
- the spread of technology across borders
- technological globalization
- the cross-cultural development and exchange of technology
- technology
- the application of science to solve problems in daily life
- technophiles
- those who see technology as symbolizing the potential for a brighter future
- utility patents
- patents that are granted for the invention or discovery of any new and useful process, product, or machine