The Web & Communication, DöP-FOR
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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Mathias Döpfner is a German businessman who served as chairman and CEO (2002– ) of Axel Springer SE, a German media......
Iva Toguri D’Aquino was a Japanese-American broadcaster from Japan to U.S. troops during World War II, who, after......
e-book, digital file containing a body of text and images suitable for distributing electronically and displaying......
e-commerce, maintaining relationships and conducting business transactions that include selling information, services,......
e-government, the use of information and communication technologies, particularly the Internet, in government.......
e-mail, messages transmitted and received by digital computers through a network. An e-mail system allows computer......
earphone, small loudspeaker held or worn close to the listener’s ear or within the outer ear. Common forms include......
Thomas East was a prominent English music publisher whose collection of psalms (1592) was among the first part-music......
Max Eastman was an American poet, editor, and prominent radical before and after World War I. Eastman was educated......
eBay is a global online auctions and trading company launched by American entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar in 1995.......
EBCDIC, data-encoding system, developed by IBM and used mostly on its computers, that uses a unique eight-bit binary......
Echo, either of two experimental communications satellites launched into orbit around Earth by the National Aeronautics......
echocardiography, diagnostic technique that uses ultrasound (high-frequency sound waves) to produce an image of......
J. Presper Eckert was an American engineer and co-inventor of the first general-purpose electronic computer, a......
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), international organization founded in 1961 to stimulate......
Benjamin Edes was the founder and co-owner with John Gill of the New England newspaper, the Boston Gazette and......
Thomas Edison was an American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world-record 1,093 patents. In addition,......
EDSAC, the first full-size stored-program computer, built at the University of Cambridge, Eng., by Maurice Wilkes......
Justus van Effen was a Dutch essayist and journalist whose straightforward didactic pieces, modelled on foreign......
Dave Eggers is an American author, publisher, and literacy advocate whose breakout memoir, A Heartbreaking Work......
eHarmony, American company providing online personal-relationship and matchmaking services. Founded in 2000 by......
Robert Eitner was a German musicologist, editor, and bibliographer. Largely self-taught in music, Eitner in 1853......
electrocardiography, method of graphic tracing (electrocardiogram; ECG or EKG) of the electric current generated......
electroencephalography, technique for recording and interpreting the electrical activity of the brain. The nerve......
electromyography, the graphing and study of the electrical characteristics of muscles. Resting muscle is normally......
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), nonprofit organization established to raise funds for lobbying, litigation,......
electronic records, evidence, in digital form, of transactions undertaken by individuals or by organizations. At......
electrophotography, any of several image-forming processes, principally xerography and the dielectric process,......
T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor who became a leader of the Modernist......
Larry Ellison (born August 17, 1944, New York City, New York) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who cofounded......
Elzevir Family, a family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers, 15 members of which were in business between......
embedded processor, a class of computer, or computer chip, embedded in various machines. These are small computers......
emoji, digital pictograms used widely throughout social media, texting, e-mail, and other computer-mediated communications.......
emoticon, glyph used in computer-mediated communications that is meant to represent a facial expression in order......
encyclopaedia, reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular......
Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest English-language general encyclopaedia. The Encyclopædia Britannica was first......
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Douglas Engelbart was an American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer......
John England was an Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate who became the first bishop of Charleston and who......
Adolf Engler was a German botanist famous for his system of plant classification and for his expertise as a plant......
ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United......
enlarger, in photography, device for producing a photographic print or negative larger than the original negative......
EPROM, form of computer memory that does not lose its content when the power supply is cut off and that can be......
eraser, piece of rubber or other material used to rub out marks made by ink, pencil, or chalk. The modern eraser......
Paul Ernst was a German writer known particularly for his short stories and for essays on philosophical, economic,......
John Erskine was a U.S. educator, musician, and novelist noted for energetic, skilled work in several different......
Henri II Estienne was a scholar-printer, grandson of Henri Estienne, founder of the family printing firm in Paris,......
Robert I Estienne was a scholar-printer, the second son of Henri Estienne, who founded the family printing firm......
Ethernet, computer networking technology used in local area networks (LANs). Ethernet was created in 1973 by a......
Etsy, American e-commerce company, founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Rob Kalin and partners Chris Maguire and Haim......
euro sign, €, symbol for the euro, the official currency of the European Union and several areas outside the EU,......
George Henry Evans was an American pro-labour social reformer and newspaper editor who sought to enhance the position......
exit interview, typically a survey given by an employer to a departing employee, though exit interviews can also......
expert system, a computer program that uses artificial-intelligence methods to solve problems within a specialized......
explicit, in bookmaking, a device added to the end of some manuscripts and incunabula by the author or scribe and......
Károly Eötvös was a Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician best known as the defense counsel in a notorious case......
Facebook, American online social media platform and social network service that is part of the company Meta Platforms.......
Facebook is a social media platform owned by Meta Platforms. It was founded in 2004 by Harvard University students......
FaceTime, video and audio calling app developed by the technology company Apple Inc. FaceTime uses cameras on Apple......
Clifton Fadiman was an American editor, anthologist, and writer known for his extraordinary memory and his wide-ranging......
Harriet Farley was an American writer and editor, remembered largely for her stewardship of the Lowell Offering,......
Philo Farnsworth was an American inventor who developed the first all-electronic television system. Farnsworth......
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, publishing company in New York City noted for its literary excellence. It was founded......
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African American novelist, critic, poet, and editor known for her discovery and encouragement......
fax, in telecommunications, the transmission and reproduction of documents by wire or radio wave. Common fax machines......
Mohamed al-Fayed was an Egyptian businessman who acquired a number of prestigious holdings throughout his career,......
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre was a French historian of the early modern period and organizer of major national and......
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent American governmental organization responsible for regulating......
fediverse, decentralized group of social media platforms in which each independent platform can interact freely......
John Fell was an English Anglican priest, author, editor, and typographer who as dean and bishop at Oxford was......
John Fenno was a publisher and editor, founder in 1789 of the Gazette of the United States, a major political organ......
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet, one of the founders of the Beat movement in San Francisco in the mid-1950s.......
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi was a Mexican editor, pamphleteer, and novelist, a leading literary figure in......
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié was a French scientist and army general who contributed to the development of radio communication......
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian radio pioneer who on Christmas Eve in 1906 broadcast the first program......
Henry Fielding was a novelist and playwright, who, with Samuel Richardson, is considered a founder of the English......
James T. Fields was an American author and leading publisher in the United States. At 14 Fields went to Boston,......
Mary Fields was an American pioneer who was the first African American woman to become a U.S. postal service star......
filter, in photography, device used to selectively modify the component wavelengths of mixed (e.g., white) light......
Theodore Fink was an Australian politician and publisher, noted for his interests in education. Fink was brought......
Firefox, free open-source Web browser created by the American software company Mozilla Corporation. In 1998 the......
firewall, type of system used to monitor connections between computer networks. One of the earliest responses to......
FireWire, high-speed computer data-transfer interface that was used to connect personal computers, audio and video......
flash lamp, any of several devices that produce brief, intense emissions of light useful in photography and in......
flash memory, data-storage medium used with computers and other electronic devices. Unlike previous forms of data......
flashbulb, one-time light bulb giving a single bright burst of light, used in photography. See flash...
flashtube, electric discharge lamp giving a very bright, very brief burst of light, useful in photography and engineering.......
flatbed press, printing press employing a flat surface for the type or plates against which paper is pressed, either......
flexography, form of rotary printing in which ink is applied to various surfaces by means of flexible rubber (or......
Flickr, photo- and video-sharing website owned by SmugMug and headquartered in San Francisco. Ad-supported and......
flight recorder, instrument that records the performance and condition of an aircraft in flight. Governmental regulatory......
floppy disk, magnetic storage medium used with late 20th-century computers. Floppy disks were popular from the......
fluorescence photography, process that records the glow or visible light given off by certain substances when they......
flutter and wow, in sound reproduction, waver in a reproduced tone or group of tones that is caused by irregularities......
Foley artist, in motion pictures, a specialist in sound effects who creates unique sounds to accompany specific......
font, assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before......
Forbes family, U.S. publishing family. Bertie Charles Forbes (1880–1954) emigrated from Scotland to the U.S. in......
Malcolm S. Forbes was an American business leader, owner-publisher of Forbes magazine, and promoter of capitalism......
Steve Forbes is an American publishing executive who twice sought the Republican Party’s presidential nomination......
Carolyn Forché is an American poet whose concern for human rights is reflected in her writing, especially in the......
Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, editor, and critic, an international influence in early 20th-century literature.......