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A Dictionary of Media and Communication

Web links

Here is a list of recommended web links, arranged alphabetically by the relevant dictionary entries:

 A B C D E F G H I J M N O P R S T U V W

A  Top

above-the-fold
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of
Blasting the myth of the fold

Academy aperture
http://www.dvdaust.com/aspect.htm
Aspect ratios

active picture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tvbranding/picturesize.shtml
Safe title area

advertising
http://www.hatads.org.uk/
History of Advertising Trust

aliasing
http://powerretouche.com/Antialias_plugin_tutorial.html
Digital audio aliasing

allegory of the cave
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.8.vii.html
Book VII of Plato's Republic

alternate reality game (ARG)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/apr/30/mediaguardian1.di...
Kubrick's strange afterlife

ambient advertising
http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/05/27/14-creative-adve...
Creative advertisements

ambiguity
http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaBook/t...
Ambiguity as an aesthetic principle

articulation
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem08a.html
Articulation

aspect-ratio conversion (ARC)
http://www.pjdaniel.org.uk/afd/
Digital widescreen TV

audience research
http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/589
Lord of the Rings: film audience research

B  Top

back stage
http://www.unlv.edu/centers/cdclv/ega/index.html
Erving Goffman archives

book
http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=5096_201&ID2=DO_T...
UNESCO book definition

C  Top

catharsis
http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaBook/t...
Catharsis

chunking
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/
The magical number seven

code
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem08.html
Codes

communication technologies
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=45
History of Communication Media: Friedrich Kittler

computer-mediated communication (CMC)
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

conspicuous consumption
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/veblen/le...
Veblen on conspicuous consumption

conversational style
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/tannend/CS%20Excerpts.html
Audio extracts from Tannen's Conversational Style

critical discourse analysis (CDA)
http://users.utu.fi/bredelli/cda.html
Critical Discourse Analysis: Brett Dellinger

crossing the line
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/editing/transition/reverse...
Crossing the line

cultivation theory
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/cultiv.html
Cultivation theory

D  Top

denotation
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem06.html
Denotation, connotation, and myth

design features
http://people.exeter.ac.uk/bosthaus/Lecture/hockett1.htm
Design features of human language

digital transmission
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/papers/pdffiles/DTV150399rpm.pdf
Digital broadcasting

discourse analysis
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/daol/
Discourse Analysis Online

E  Top

effects tradition
http://www.newmediastudies.com/effects1.htm
Ten things wrong with the ‘effects model’

embedded reporters
http://www.warandmedia.org/documents/comfort_summary.doc
Embedded reporters

encoding/decoding model
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem08c.html
Encoding/decoding

expectations
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Modules/FM21820/visper06.html
Contexts and expectations

F  Top

figure of speech
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem07.html
Rhetorical tropes

film
http://www.imdb.com/
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

film genres
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/446108/index.html
Film genres and themes (BFI)

film grammar
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/gramtv.html
The grammar of television and film

film studies
http://isc.temple.edu/TNE/
Through Navaho Eyes: Film Communication and Anthropology: Sol Worth

freedom of information
http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/freedom_of_information.aspx
Freedom of information in the UK

free press
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

G  Top

gaze
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/gaze/
Notes on ‘the gaze’

gendered editing
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/toyads.html
Gender-differentiated production features in toy commercials

gendered identifications
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/who_is_the_faire...
Gendered readings of Big Brother 2

gender stereotypes
http://www.commercialcloset.org/common/11064/default.cfm?cli...
GLAAD's advertising media program

genre
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/intgenre/
Introduction to genre theory

gestalt laws
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Wertheimer/Forms/forms.htm
Laws of organization in perceptual forms

Glasgow media group
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/mediagroup/
Glasgow University Media Group

globalization
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
Globalization

great divide theories
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/litoral/
Biases of the ear and eye

griefer
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_...
Julian Dibbell on griefers

H  Top

hacker
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/729
Hackers: Steven Levy

high definition television
http://www.bairdtelevision.com/colour.html
The world's first high definition colour television

hypertext
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html
Project Xanadu

I  Top

identity
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/dmal.9780262...
Youth identity and digital media

ideology
http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaGenTex...
Ideology

impartiality
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/18_06_07impartial...
Safeguarding impartiality in the 21st century

innocent eye
http://www.gombrich.co.uk/
Gombrich archive

interactive movies
http://www.designersnotebook.com/Lectures/Challenge/challeng...
The challenge of the interactive movie

interlace scanning
http://www.sparkysworld.co.uk/interlacing.htm
Interlacing

interpretation
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/living2.html
What makes viewers diverge when interpreting narrative?

intertextuality
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem09.html
Intertextuality

J  Top

Johari window
http://www.noogenesis.com/game_theory/johari/johari_window.html
Johari window

journalese
http://www.bbctraining.com/styleguide.asp
BBC news styleguide

M  Top

McLuhanism
http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/
The official site of Marshall McLuhan

male norm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4740173.stm
Website design biased to men

marketing semiotics
http://it.stlawu.edu/~global/pagessemiotics/menuframesem.html
The Semiotics of Advertising: Goldman et al.

Marxist media theory
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/marxism/
Marxist media theory

mashup
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13569_22-152729.html
What is a mashup?

Maslow's hierarchy of needs
http://psychclassics.asu.edu/Maslow/motivation.htm
A Theory of Human Motivation: Abraham Maslow

meaning
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/texts.html
Texts and the construction of meaning

mechanical reproduction
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/g...
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

media ecology
http://www.media-ecology.org/media_ecology/index.html
What is media ecology?

media industries
http://www.skillset.org/skillset/role/article_2643_1.asp
Creative media industries

media law
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1998/ukpga_19980042_en_3#sch1
The 1998 Human Rights Act

media literacy
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/media-...
Ofcom's definition of ‘media literacy’

media ownership
http://www.cjr.org/resources/
Who owns what?

media psychology
http://www.apa.org/divisions/div46/
APA Division 46

mediation
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/process.html
Processes of mediation

metaphor
http://cogsci.berkeley.edu/lakoff/
Conceptual metaphor

mimesis
http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaBook/t...
Mimesis

mobile communications
http://www.richardling.com/papers/2007_Mobile_communication_...
Mobile communication and mediated ritual

modality
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem02a.html
Modality and representation

modelling
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Bandura/bobo.htm
Imitation of aggressive models

mode of address
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem08b.html
Modes of address

movable type
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/homepage.html
The Gutenberg Bible

MUD (multi-user domain or dungeon)
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=kt367nc6m1&#...
Mudding history and subcultures

MUD object-orientated (MOO, tiny MOO)
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/my-tiny-life-crime...
My Tiny Life: Julian Dibbell

N  Top

naturalism
http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaBook/t...
Naturalism in art

network society
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-co...
The network society: interview with Manuel Castells

new media
http://iiea.com/events/jon-snow?gclid=CPyUq-uQtKECFQRslAodcW...
Jon Snow on ‘new media’

news
http://www.dmoz.org/News/By_Region/
News media by country

newspapers
http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/
British Newspapers Online

nonverbal behaviour
http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/05/nonverbal-behaviour.php
Nonverbal behaviour

O  Top

optics
http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaBook/t...
Optics and vision

P  Top

panopticon
http://cartome.org/panopticon2.htm
The Panopticon: Jeremy Bentham

paradigm
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem03.html
Paradigms and syntagms

parasocial interaction
http://www.participations.org/volume%203/issue%201/3_01_hort...
Parasocial interaction: Horton and Wohl

participatory culture
http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-...
Confronting the challenges of participatory culture

Peircean model
http://www.peirce.org/
Peirce Studies

perceived reality
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/realrev.html
Children's understanding of what is ‘real’ on television

performativity
http://www.theory.org.uk/but-int1.htm
An interview with Judith Butler

persistence of vision
http://www.grand-illusions.com/articles/persistence_of_vision/
Persistence of vision

perspective
http://www.webexhibits.org/arrowintheeye/
The psychology of perspective

phenomenology
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/phenom.html
The phenomenology of writing by hand

photograph
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
A history of photography

photojournalism
http://greatphotojournalism.com/
Photojournalism

photoshopping
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
Photo tampering throughout history

polysemy
http://lsb.scu.edu/~emcquarrie/reson55.htm
Resonance in advertising rhetoric

power law distribution
http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
Power laws, weblogs, and inequality

presence studies
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue2/lombard.html
The concept of presence

propaganda
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html
Propaganda: Edward Bernays

proxemics
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/007291694x/161...
Personal space and proxemics

psychographics
http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/vals/presurvey.shtml
The VALS™ Survey

public opinion
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?n...
Public Opinion: Walter Lippmann

R  Top

radio waves
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Radio_Waves
IEEE definition of radio waves

readership
http://www.nrs.co.uk/
National Readership Survey

reading direction
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/papers/f895-chan.pdf
Writing direction influences spatial cognition

recontextualization
http://l2g.to/negativland/u2/the-edge-interview.html
Negativland interviews U2's ‘The Edge’

rhetoric
http://lsb.scu.edu/~emcquarrie/rhetjcr.htm
Figures of rhetoric in advertising language

S  Top

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/whorf.html
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

schema theory
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/schematv.html
Schema theory and the interpretation of television programmes

selective perception
http://www.all-about-psychology.com/selective-perception.html
They Saw a Game: a Case Study by Albert Hastorf and Hadley Cantril

semiotics
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/
Semiotics for beginners

Shannon and Weaver's model
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html
A Mathematical Theory of Communication

sign
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem02.html
Signs

software
http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/11/softbook.html
Software takes command

spam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/7380788.stm
Spam reaches 30-year anniversary

structuralism
http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=DicHist/uvaGenTex...
Structuralism

T  Top

technological determinism
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/tecdet/
Technological or media determinism

technophobia
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/SF/
Imagining futures, dramatizing fears

telephone
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/phone.html
Using the telephone

telepresence
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Telepresence.html
Minsky's telepresence article

television
http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/links.html
British television history

television genres
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/482184/index.html
Television genres, themes, and formats (BFI)

transmission models
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/trans.html
Transmission model

typeface personality
http://www.esperfonto.com/
EsperFonto

U  Top

usability
http://www.useit.com/
Jakob Nielsen's website

uses and gratifications
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/short/usegrat.html
Why do people watch television?

V  Top

videogame studies
http://gamestudies.org/
Game Studies

video news release
http://iantennant.com/Default.aspx?id=508282
Supplying VNRs to the BBC

viral video
http://henryjenkins.org/2009/02/if_it_doesnt_spread_its_dead...
If it doesn't spread, it's dead

virtual community
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
Virtual Community: Howard Rheingold

visual communication
http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/wava/worth/svscom.html
Studying Visual Communication: Sol Worth

visual culture
http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/
History of visual communication

visual illusion
http://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
Optical illusions and visual phenomena

visual perception
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Modules/FM21820/visindex.html
Visual perception

visual rhetoric
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/691/01/
Visual rhetoric

W  Top

weak ties
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.128...
Granovetter's Theory of the Strength of Weak Ties

Web 2.0
http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
What is Web 2.0?

widescreen
http://www.widescreen.org/widescreen.shtml
Demonstrations of widescreen presentations

writing systems
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/definition.htm
Writing systems