CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Federal Radio Commission, Freemium, Daguerreotype

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Distributed computing: individual, autonomous computers that work together toward a common goal, typically a large, complex project that requires more computing power than any individual computer could have. Tagging: using searchable keywords to define a piece of information, file, image, or other type of digital media in a non-hierarchical system. Folksonomies: collection of tags created by users that provide metadata (data about data) regarding information. Widget: portable chunk of code that can be embedded in html pages and that often gives users extra. Web page to increase functionality on their pages. Lurking: only reading what others write in online discussion boards but not contributing to the discussions. Troll: person who purposely vandalizes wikipedia entries by inserting false or nonsensical information. Six degrees of separation: notion that everyone in the world is separated from all other individuals by at most six additional nodes in a social network.