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Title: Technology Definitions


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Technology Definitions
  • Media
  • Information Technologies
  • Networks
  • Information Infrastructure
  • Information Systems

2
Media
  • Channels of communication that carry a message
    from sender to receiver
  • Traditional examples
  • TV, radio, newspaper, magazines
  • Other examples
  • verbal, personal letters
  • Info Age examples
  • email, web sites, pager, flip phones

3
Information Technologies
  • Devices that store, process, or transmit computer
    readable (i.e., digital) information
  • Examples
  • personal or super computers
  • floppy disks CD-ROMs
  • modems
  • processing chips (e.g., pentium)
  • data terminals info kiosks
  • teleconferencing

4
Networks
  • The means by which electrical or digital signals
    are carried among multiple, connected users
  • Common examples
  • TV networks (e.g., ABC, CBS, etc.)
  • Phone networks lines
  • Info Age examples
  • Local area networks (LANs)
  • Wide area networks (WANs)
  • Internet, Ethernet, and intranets
  • Integrated services digital network (ISDN)

5
Info Infrastructure
  • The computer, media, network hardware that
    organizations and people use to accomplish tasks
  • Examples
  • Coaxial Cable
  • Fiber Optic Cable
  • Electrical circuits physical space for
    computers
  • Data jacks, modem jacks, and Internet or
    Ethernet connections
  • Internet servers, data terminals, computers

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Information Systems
  • A combination of info technologies, media,
    networks that provides info services for
    organizations people
  • e.g, computer systems used for information
    management, electronic funds transfer,
    advertising marketing, inventory control,
    etc.
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