New Media Technology Vocabulary

Netocracy: The idea that the web is controlled by no-one. The audience/ consumer is now the producer
Web 2.0: An advancement on the “old world wide web”, a second generation that improves the first
Creativity: The notion that the user can create their own page/ area to reflect their interests and personality
Architecture of participation: The idea that web-pages are built to encourage the audience to get involved in creating their own “spaces”
User-generate content: The idea that the audience controls the content and how it is displayed
Information Rich: The idea that pages and sites are full of images, sounds, connections and uses
Information Cloud: A criticism of web 2.0, the idea that no one is controlling or filtering information, so the user can become lost or confused or misinformed
Granulated Data: The idea that web 2.0 pages provide you with bits of information at a time
Mash-up: The idea that web 2.0 pages provide audience to change content/ text pages and make things personal to them
On demand, convenience, Folksonomy: Web 2.0 is based around usable, searchable and navigatable windows or “tags”