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• Mobile Media


  Range of handheld devices, from mobile phones, tablets, and e-readers to game consoles, primarily used as personal, interactive, Internet-enabled, and user-controlled portable platforms allowing interconnected users to exchange personal and non-personal information
• Web 2.0


  1. First used around 2004

  2. More interactive

  3. More available to everyone

  4. Users can now interact, contribute, and create their own internet space and content (Explosion of Information & Social Media)
• Technology


  Machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge
• Technology Convergence


  Evolution of technological developments merging into a new system bringing together different types of applications and media
• Web 3.0


  1. Coined by Time Berners-Lee (Father of WWW) as the read-write-execute web

  2. Semantic web or data-driven web content and response

  3. Context of the user's search is processed by a programming language to help the user by presenting options of what the person is interested in
• Web 1.0


  1. Term coined to differentiate the First stage of the World Wide Web (www) in comparison with the present stage of internet technology

  2. Few web content creators

  3. Webpages were static and called read only web

  4. Only available feedback mechanism was private emails
• Assistive technologies

  • magnifiers
  • talking devices such as a talking thermostat
  • Braille displays
  • screen reading software
  • text-to-speech systems using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  • large print materials
  • phones with large tactile buttons
• ICT


  Information and Communications Technology, an extended term of Information Technology (IT) emphasizing unified communications and the integration of telecommunications, computers, enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems
• Assistive Media


  1. Nonprofit organization founded in 1996 in Michigan, USA by David H. Harvey

  2. First internet-based reading service for persons with visual and reading impairments

  3. Produces and publishes voice-recorded written materials on cassettes, CDs, and on the internet
• Technology


  The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry
• Social Media


  Collection of internet-based communication tools and computer-assisted channels dedicated to allowing users to interact, communicate, and share information in a virtual community and network