The Web & Communication, MCG-NEW
The development of the World Wide Web had a massive impact on the ways in which people interact and communicate, ultimately paving the way for the heavily interconnected world that we live in today. Although Internet communication dominates in many spheres of life, other means of communication remain no less important.
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Ralph McGill was a crusading American journalist whose editorials in the Atlanta Constitution had a profound influence......
William Holmes McGuffey was a U.S. educator who is remembered chiefly for his series of elementary school reading......
Robert McKenzie was a Canadian-born British political scientist and television commentator on electoral politics.......
Marian McPartland was an English-born American jazz musician and radio personality, best known in the United States......
John McPhee is an American journalist whose nonfiction books are accessible and informative on a wide variety of......
Carey McWilliams was an American editor who defended the civil rights of minorities and the oppressed in scores......
media convergence, phenomenon involving the interconnection of information and communications technologies, computer......
Joseph Medill was a Canadian-born American editor and publisher who from 1855 built the Chicago Tribune into a......
megaconstellation, group of many satellites that work together for the purpose of delivering broadband Internet......
Alexander Meissner was an Austrian engineer whose work in antenna design, amplification, and detection advanced......
John Willis Menard was an American publisher and politician who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives......
Johnny Mercer was an American lyricist, vocalist, and composer who contributed to many Broadway musical productions......
Matthäus Merian was an engraver, etcher, and book dealer, the leading German illustrator of the 17th century. In......
Meta, parent company of the social network Facebook, the popular photo- and video-sharing network Instagram, and......
metadata, data about informational aspects of other data. For example, the date and time of a text message is metadata,......
metal cut, an engraving on metal, usually lead or type metal, or a print made from such plates. The earliest example......
metaverse, proposed network of immersive online worlds experienced typically through virtual reality or augmented......
Eugene Meyer was an influential leader in American political and social life and publisher of The Washington Post......
Kuno Meyer was a German scholar of the Celtic languages and editor whose translations made him the chief interpreter......
Alice Meynell was an English poet and essayist. Much of Meynell’s childhood was spent in Italy, and about 1868......
Al Michaels is an American sports broadcaster considered by some to be the best in his field. He has covered the......
microcomputer, an electronic device with a microprocessor as its central processing unit (CPU). Microcomputer was......
microform, any process, photographic or electronic, for reproducing printed matter or other graphic material in......
microphone, device for converting acoustic power into electric power that has essentially similar wave characteristics.......
microprocessor, any of a type of miniature electronic device that contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry......
microprogramming, process of writing microcode for a microprocessor. Microcode is low-level code that defines how......
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company that has been a key player in the computer......
Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet application launched in 1985 by the Microsoft Corporation. Excel is a popular spreadsheet......
Microsoft PowerPoint, virtual presentation software developed by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin for the American......
Microsoft Windows, computer operating system (OS) developed by Microsoft Corporation to run personal computers......
Thomas Middelhoff is a German business executive who was chairman and CEO of the global media giant Bertelsmann......
middleware, computer software that enables communication between multiple software applications, possibly running......
MIDI, technology standard allowing electronic musical instruments to communicate with one another and with computers.......
Midjourney, generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that creates images from user-generated text prompts.......
Jacques-Paul Migne was a French Roman Catholic priest who became one of the foremost 19th-century publishers of......
Yuri Milner is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist whose innovative investment techniques......
Minamoto Shitagō was a Japanese poet of the middle Heian period (794–1185). Although he was a descendant of the......
minicam, portable electronic video-camera unit. It consists of a lightweight hand-held camera, a backpack containing......
minicomputer, computer that was smaller, less expensive, and less powerful than a mainframe or supercomputer but......
Misinformation is the inadvertent spread of false information without intent to harm, while disinformation is false......
mobile telephone, portable device for connecting to a telecommunications network in order to transmit and receive......
modem, (from “modulator/demodulator”), any of a class of electronic devices that convert digital data signals into......
modulation, in electronics, technique for impressing information (voice, music, pictures, or data) on a radio-frequency......
Monster, American online employee-recruitment company, with headquarters in Maynard, Mass., and New York, N.Y.......
Michael Moorcock is a British science fiction and fantasy author who, as editor of the magazine New Worlds, led......
Ely Moore was an American journalist and politician who represented the interests of labour in the U.S. Congress.......
Nicholas Moore was one of the “New Apocalypse” English poets of the 1940s who reacted against the preoccupation......
Dom Moraes was an editor, essayist, biographer, and inveterate traveler who was one of the best-known English-language......
Piers Morgan is a British journalist and media figure who attracted controversy as a tabloid editor for his aggressive......
Morita Akio was a Japanese businessman who was cofounder, chief executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of......
Thomas Morley was a composer, organist, and theorist, and the first of the great English madrigalists. Morley held......
William Morris was an English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics,......
Morse Code, either of two systems for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by......
Samuel F.B. Morse was an American painter and inventor who developed an electric telegraph (1832–35). In 1838 he......
Sir Charles Moses was a British-born Australian broadcasting executive who headed the Australian Broadcasting Commission......
motherboard, printed circuit board (PCB) that connects all components of a general-purpose computer. A motherboard......
motion-picture camera, any of various complex photographic cameras that are designed to record a succession of......
mouse, hand-controlled electromechanical device for interacting with a digital computer that has a graphical user......
MP3, a data compression format for encoding digital audio, most commonly music. MP3 files offered substantial fidelity......
MS NOW, American cable television news and political commentary channel launched in 1996 as MSNBC. It was owned......
MS-DOS, the dominant operating system for the personal computer (PC) throughout the 1980s. The acquisition and......
Henry Muddiman was an English journalist who supported the Royalist cause during the Civil Wars and became a privileged......
mug shot, photographic image taken by law enforcement officials during the booking process to be used to identify......
Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist and social critic. A lecturer in Cairo in the late 1920s, he worked......
multiplexing, simultaneous electronic transmission of two or more messages in one or both directions over a single......
multiprocessing, in computing, a mode of operation in which two or more processors in a computer simultaneously......
multitasking, the running of multiple programs (sets of instructions) in one computer at the same time. Multitasking......
Anthony Munday was an English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator. The son of a draper, Munday began his......
Frank Andrew Munsey was a newspaper and magazine publisher, a dominant figure in the trend toward journalistic......
Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur who founded (1979) the......
George P. Murdock was an American anthropologist who specialized in comparative ethnology, the ethnography of African......
Edward R. Murrow was a radio and television broadcaster who was the most influential and esteemed figure in American......
museum, institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting the primary tangible evidence of humankind and the......
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- Collections, Preservation, Education
- Renaissance, Italy, Art
- Preservation, Education, Collections
- Art, History, Culture
- Cultural Institution, Preservation, Education
- Cultural Institution, Preservation, Education
- Preservation, Education, Collections
- Conservation, Education, Preservation
- Art, History, Science
- Natural History, Science, Education
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- Art, Collections, Exhibits
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museum of modern art, an institution devoted to the collection, display, interpretation, and preservation of “avant-garde”......
music recording, physical record of a musical performance that can then be played back, or reproduced. Because......
MYCIN, an early expert system, or artificial intelligence (AI) program, for treating blood infections. In 1972......
Myspace, website and social media platform that was the most popular social network from 2005 to 2008. The site,......
MySQL, open-source relational database management software, owned by the computer software company Oracle, that......
Nakae Chōmin was a noted writer who popularized the equalitarian doctrines of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques......
Napster, music file-sharing computer service created by American college student Shawn Fanning in 1999. Napster......
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), independent federal agency headquartered in Washington, D.C.,......
National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent agency of the U.S. government that supports basic research and......
natural language processing (NLP), in computer science, the use of operations, systems, and technologies that allow......
The Navajo code talkers were Native American men serving as U.S. Marines in the Pacific theater of World War II......
navigation chart, map designed and used primarily for navigation. A nautical chart presents most of the information......
NCR Voyix Corporation, NCR Voyix is an American e-commerce company known for its digital banking and point-of-service......
NEC Corporation, major Japanese multinational corporation, producer of telecommunications equipment and related......
Marchamont Needham was a British journalist and publisher of the Mercurius Britanicus, an anti-Royalist commentary......
negative, a semitransparent photographic image on a transparent base, which displays an inverted version of the......
William Rockhill Nelson was an American journalist, editor, and publisher who helped found The Kansas City Star......
net neutrality, principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not discriminate among providers of content.......
Net neutrality“the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not discriminate among providers of......
netbook, informal classification used in the early 21st century for a variety of small low-cost mobile personal......
Netflix, Inc. is a media company based in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by American entrepreneurs Reed......
netiquette, guidelines for courteous communication in the online environment. It includes proper manners for sending......
Netscape Communications Corp. , American developer of Internet software with headquarters in Mountain View, California.......
neural network, a computer program that operates in a manner inspired by the natural neural network in the brain.......
John Newbery was an English publisher. In 1744, he set up a bookshop and publishing house in London, and it became......
Newhouse family, family that built the second largest publishing empire in the United States in the second half......
news agency, organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers,......