Web Observations Definitions Module 3

New Media, Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) Scrapbooked Definitions

Web Observation Definitions Module 3

I collected the definitions by conducting Google searches for each of these terms. Then I selected definitions from the results of the Google search and categorized them according to their intended audiences, the concepts they embodied or the degree to which each definition was fundamentally operational, i.e. describing technical infrastructure and/or usage.

The audience-specific definitions provide information about each of these terms as they relate to particular environments. For example, the Wikipedia definition for New Media describes it as an academic discipline. Similarly, the University of Evansville Libraries Glossary of Library Terms identifies the Internet as a service the organization provides to its users to make use of library resources.

The operational definitions tended to focus on the technology itself as opposed to its usage. The sources I included in this category provided definitions that focused on hardware and the means by which hardware operates.

The conceptual definitions were more consistent with the substance of our assigned reading. These definitions tended to be very broad and attempted to describe these terms as subjects of study.