These are the major terms and concepts I want you to master for the final examination. This list will grow as we progress throughout the course. Please remember that this review is designed to highlight ideas and concepts that will be found on the test. It is not complete and will be revised until the day before the examination. The review does not include every word that will appear on the final exam; it merely serves to guide your study of the texts, notes, web resources, and other materials employed throughout this course.

Midterm

• CMC definition and components
• Immediacy vs. Mediation
• Multiphrenia - Gergen
• Secondary Orality - Ong
• Cyberspace definition and origin - Gibson
• Theory of hypertext
• Basic HTML tags
• Cybernetics history - Weiner
• Cybernetics: information
• ARPANET: purpose
• What is an internet?
• Graphical User Interface
• WWW: Tim Berners-Lee
• Characteristics of Online Communication
• Turing Test
• Telepresence: qualities
• Avatars
• Identity Fraud
• Shadow Pages
• Course Theory of Interpersonal Communication: "Meaningful online interpersonal communication requires two or more persons with sufficient technological access whose frequency of interactions contribute to a shared perception of trust and common ground."
• Impersonal Communication
  
  • Social Presence Theory
  • Social Context Cues Theory
  • Social Information Processing
• Interpersonal Communication - SIDE model
• Four dimensions of Hyperpersonal Communication

Final

• Basic HTML tags
• Symptoms of IAD
• ACE Model
• Critiques of IAD
• Four Qualities of Virtual Communities
• Critiques of the Community Metaphor
• Information Society - components (standardization, bureaucracy, etc.)
• Panopticon - origins and function
• Anticipatory conformity
• Three means of computer surveillance
• Factors necessary for successful diffusion of innovation
• Corporate Convergence
• Infotainment
• Factors necessary for High Tech Clusters to Form
• Gender, race, class, and the digital divide
• Critiquing the digital divide
• Digital divide on a global basis
• Space and Place
• Agonistic vs Utopian rhetoric
• Cyberpunk - literary origins, definition (what question does it ask?), and themes