Thursday, 5 January 2012

Key Terms

Convergence - The coming together of multimedia digital data technologies allowing words , audio, video, graphics and animation to be linked and routed together via broadband to create two way communications. The idea being to produce, distribute and share.

Synergy- Similar to convergence but used to describe how companies can pool their resources and exploit products in different markets.

Institution – Refers to the companies and organisations that provide media content and involves and understanding of media as business.

Audience – this refers to the way in which people engage with the media. The new digital media: convergence, user created content and social networking have transformed  the audience from a traditional ‘mass’ into a ‘fragmented’ definition.

Production – Recording music

Distribution – Promoting music and getting it into shops, on the radio an download for payment.

Consumption – People buying C.D’s, downloading music, paying for live concert tickets and purchasing related products.

Vertical integration – Where a media company profits from all aspects of production, distribution and consumption.

Globalisation – the growing tendency of industrial and commercial companies to merge and operate on an international rather than a national or regional basis.

Digitalisation  - To put in digital form.

Horizontal Integration – The merger of competing companies to dominate a market from the same line of business and involved at the same line of activities

Niche audience –  Targeting a small but significant group of people.

Mainstream audience – the uncontroversial generally accepted attitudes, beliefs and values of the majority of the population.

Fan – A person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular sport, art form, or famous person.

Active audience -  any of various theories of audience behaviour that see the audience as active participants in the process of decoding and making sense of media text.

Audiophiles -
An audiophile is a person who has a great interest in high-fidelity sound reproduction


Early adopters -
A person who starts using a product or technology as soon as it becomes available

Consumption – The
purchase and use of goods and services by the public

Web 2.0 – social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessable and scalable publishing techniques

Meta tags / personalisation - HTML coding embedded in the site in order to provide search engine spiders with keyword information.

Download –  the act or process of copying data in such a way

Streaming –
A method of relaying data (esp. video and audio material) over a computer network as a steady continuous stream, allowing playback to proceed while subsequent data is being received

Peer to peer –
Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a term that originated from the popular concept of peer-to-peer computer application design, popularized by the large distributed file sharing systems, such as Napster.

Piracy -  The unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work

Multi track -
An audio tape which holds more than one track of audio information.

Sampling – 
The technique of digitally encoding music or sound and reusing it as part of a composition or recording.

Digital audio workstation - Originated in the early 1980s, the term digital audio workstation (DAW) originally referred to a tape-less, computer-based system such as New England Digital's Synclavier and Fairlight that used hard drives for media storage
Artists and repertoire – this is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.


Record deal –Contract – A recording contract (commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.
Royalties – Sums of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work or in the music business, songs played.

Distribution – the company or organisation responsible for buying a film from the producers and distributing it.

Plugging / marketing – The transmission of information about a media text to a target audience in such a way as to maximise the appeal to that audience.

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