Understanding Key Terms in Digital Media and Technology
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Hypertext: The type of text that contains links to other texts.
Hypermedia: A system that combines hypertexts and multimedia.
Hard Drive: Storage device that stores digitally encoded data.
Interactive: Software that allows people to choose whatever they want to watch, read, or listen to.
Interactive Kiosks: An interactive point-of-purchase display that is a free-standing, full-service retail location.
IT: Information technology.
Internet Radio: A radio that includes both traditional and online stations.
Image Manipulation Programs: Let you edit your favorite images.
Innovative: Introducing something new.
Journalist: A person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism.
Key Audience: The most important listeners.
Lead Stories: The most important stories.
The Latest: Most recent.
Ladder: A structure having two side pieces between which a series of steps or rungs are set to provide a means of climbing up or down.
Layout: The internal design and configuration of the page.
Line Graph: A graph that uses one or more lines to show changes in statistics over time or space.
Marketing Ploy: An unwelcome trick used by marketing people to get people to think about or buy a product when they are trying to do something else.
MPEG: A video format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group.
MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A standard protocol that enables computers and synthesizers to communicate with each other, exchanging musical information.
MP3 Player: Multimedia audio player.
Multiplayer: A facility that enables lots of people to play the same game at the same time.
Multimedia: Different types of media including text, video, sounds, graphics, and animations.
News: New information about something that has happened recently, always singular.
News Agency (also Press Agency): An organization that collects news and supplies it to newspapers and television and radio companies.
News Room: The area in a newspaper or broadcasting office where news is processed.
Newslist: Stories to be included in a program.
Overhyped: To make exaggerated claims about a product, idea, or event; to publicize or promote excessively.