Glossary: Key teams and Theory

• Video on demand: 

• A system in which viewers choose their own filmed entertainment Through the internet E.g Netflix 

• Streams/Streaming:

2. A method of transmitting  or receiving data over a computer network as a steady, continuous flow, allowing playback to start while the rest of the data is still being received.

• Microblogging:

The activity or practice of making short, frequent posts to a microblog E.g. twitter  

• Crowdfunding:

The practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the internet.

• wikinomics:

    Tapscott and Williams (2006):

    traditional business model evolved.

    Collaboration due to broadband-prosumer

• Globalisation:

A brand being accessible/marketing all over the world due to the instant communication web.

• Fan films:

A film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book,1book, or video game created by fans. 

• Citizen Journalists:

The collection, dissemination, and analysis of news and information4by the general public, especially by means of the internet.

• Global village: 

    the term used to describe how the web instantly connects audiences        all over the world 

• Web utopians:

those who see the web and social media  technology as having a benefits to society as a whole

• Electronic Agora 

Online meeting spaces such as forums and chat rooms where people can discuss a range of topics and achivcee collaboration 

• Marshall Mcluhan 1964

The global village:

This suggests that tv would Crete a global village, as a medium central to communicating ideas. he also predicted a library network accessible everywhere that would allow access to all forms of information.

• Distribution:

The method by which media products are delivered to audiences

• Social media:

Utilising Web 2.0 technologies to allow users to share ideas expressions content via online communities

• Professional:

A paid person working for a company to do job.

• Preamble:

The model of distribution of media products has changed widely since the advert of Web 2.0/social media.

• Prosumer:

A user of media who both produces and consumes media