EC CS111Technology in Action Chapter 1
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Social Networking
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A means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information among their immediate friends, and meet and connect with others through common interests, experiences, and friends.
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Crisis Mapping Tool
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A tool that collects information from e-mails, text messages, blog posts, and Twitter tweets and maps them, making the information instantly publicly available.
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Digital Divide
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The gap between the levels of Internet access and the availability of technical tools in different regions of the world.
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Autonomy
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working without continual direction and control
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QR Codes
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A technology that lets any piece of print in the real world host a live link to online information and video content.
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Crowdsourcing
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solicits online input from consumers, phenomenon of consumers checking in with the voice of the crow before making purchases
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Collaborative Consumption
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Sharing products rather than owning them individually
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Computer Literate
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Being familiar enough with computers that you understand their capabilities and limitations and you know how to use them.
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Spam
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Unwanted junk e-mail.
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Augmented Reality
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A combination of our normal sense of the objects around us with an overlay of information displayed.
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Affective Computing
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A type of computing that relates to emotion or deliberately tries to influence emotion.
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binary digit (bit)
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A digit that corresponds to the on and off states of a computer's switches. A bit contains a value of either 0 or 1.
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binary
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The language computers use to process data into information, consisting of only the values 0 and 1.
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data mining
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The process by which great amounts of data are analyzed and investigated. The objective is to spot significant patterns or trends within the data that would otherwise not be obvious.
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Information technology (IT)
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field of study focused on handling and automatic retrieval of information.
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purpose
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The understanding that you are working for something larger than yourself.
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Autonomy
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1st factor that leads to greater motivation
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Cognitive Surplus
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results when leisure time and tools allow us to engage in creative acts
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Mastery
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feeling confident and excited about learning new skills
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crowdfunding
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Using the Internet to get small donations from many people to start a business is called; a style of generating capital to start a business through social media
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Quick Response
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What does QR stand for?
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Skype
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A popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service
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Software
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refers to the commands that instruct a computer what to do
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Computer Forensics
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Analyzing computer systems to gather potential legal evidence
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Ushahidi
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Crisis Mapping Tool
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Next Einstein Initiative
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rallying the support of the world to identify mathematical genius
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Purpose
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2nd factor that leads to greater motivation
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Mastery
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3rd factor that leads to greater motivation
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Web 2.0
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tools and web based service that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users, move from just consuming internet content to creating content
