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CH 5 COM 208

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surveillance
verifying factual claims through photographic visual evidence
camera obscura
a dark box or room with a small hole that allows an inverted image of an opposite inner wall
Louis Daguerre
inventor of the daguerreotype, an early type of photography
Daguerreotype
Photograph created by exposing a positive image on a metal plate
Mathew B. Brady
Nineteenth-century photographer acclaimed for his Civil War images and portraits of famous people.
Thomas Alva Edison
His inventions included the electric light, the phonograph, and the Kinetoscope. Edison's lab in Mexico Park, New Jersey, had over sixty scientists and produced as many as four hundred patent applications a year.
independent films
films made by production companies separate from the main Hollywood studios
auteur
director as storyteller
genres
topical categories
product placement
a form of advertising in which brand name goods are placed prominently within programming content
time shift
recording of an audio or video event for later listening or viewing
place shift
viewing TV from anywhere using the Internet to access video originally delivered digitally to the home (or another location).
cathode-ray tube (CRT)
device in older television and computers using electron beams to transmit images to the screen
user-generated content (UGC)
content created by lay citizens
high-definition television (HDTV)
modern television technology that produces a much higher-resolution image, sharper color, a wider aspect ratio, and superior audio.
digital television
television system in which all information broadcast by cable or through the air is in digital, or computer-readable, form.
multicast
simultaneous transmission of multiple channels of compressed content or the same content but at different times.
community antenna television (CATV)
cable television developed in 1948 so that communities in hilly or remote terrain could still access television broadcasts.
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