RTF 319: Introduction to Digital Media
Midterm Exam
Thursday, March 12, 2015
3:30pm
REMINDER: You are responsible for providing your own bluebooks, available for purchase at the Co-op.
Below you’ll find a partial list of IDs, additional terms not listed here may appear on the exam. The midterm will be comprised of two parts:
- A series of identifications (you will define the term, and tie it to the broader themes of the week and course)
- Essay questions (relating the reading and lecture content to screenings/clips)
Both sections will offer you choices on which questions to answer.
Remediation
Manovich’s 5 Principles of New Media
Open vs. Closed Interactivity
Onian’s 4 stages of amazement
Defamiliarization
Uncanny
New Media vs. Cyberculture
New Media as Metamedia
Convergence Culture
Participatory Culture
Web 2.0
Horizontal Integration
Content ID
Moral Economy
Freeconomies
Public Relations
Signs in Semiotics
Structuralism vs. Post-Structuralism
Meme
Dawkins’ 3 Properties of Memes
Hypermemetic Logic
Technological Determinism
Social Cues
Social Presence Theory
Media Richness Theory
Emoticons/Emoji
Types and Qualities of Flow
Overflow
Authorial podcasts as “moments of television”
The author function
Qualities of Twitter
Interactive Multicasting
Hypertext
Transmedia Storytelling
Negative Capability
Migratory Cues
Worldbuilding
Tensions Found in Transmedia Stories
Agency
Huizinga’s 5 Characteristics of Play
The Magic Circle
Diagetic Machine Acts
Non-Diagetic Operator Acts
Diagetic Operator Acts
Non-Diagetic Machine Act
The Turing Test
“Objections” to Learning Machines
4 skills tied to New Media Literacies
Qualities of Wikipedia
Collective Intelligence
Systemic Bias
Googlization
Google Search
Qualities of Digital Archives
MEMEX
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