The Web & Communication, SEX-TCP
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.
The Web & Communication Encyclopedia Articles By Title
sexting, the sending or receiving of sexual words, pictures, or videos via technology, typically a mobile phone.......
SGML, an international computer standard for the definition of markup languages; that is, it is a metalanguage.......
Al Sharpton is an American civil rights activist, politician, and minister who founded the National Action Network......
Bernard Shaw was an American television journalist and the first chief anchor for the Cable News Network (CNN).......
Wallace Shawn is an American playwright and character actor whose oft-surreal probing plays found favour in the......
William Shenstone was a representative 18th-century English “man of taste.” As a poet, amateur landscape gardener,......
Robert E. Sherwood was an American playwright whose works reflect involvement in human problems, both social and......
William L. Shirer was an American journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his massive study The Rise......
Sir Isaac Shoenberg was the principal inventor of the first high-definition television system, which was used by......
shortwave radio, transmission and reception of information by means of electromagnetic waves about 10 to 80 m (33......
shutter, in photography, device through which the lens aperture of a camera is opened to admit light and thus expose......
Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur, philanthropist, and space tourist who became the first South......
Hiram Sibley was a founder and president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Sibley first ran a machine shop......
Siemens AG, German energy technology and manufacturing company formed in 1966 through the merger of Siemens & Halske......
Sir William Siemens was a German-born English engineer and inventor, important in the development of the steel......
Werner von Siemens was a German electrical engineer who played an important role in the development of the telegraph......
signal generator, electronic test instrument that delivers an accurately calibrated signal at frequencies from......
Silk Road, online black market known for providing a platform to buy and sell illegal drugs and for hosting other......
Leslie Marmon Silko is an American poet and novelist whose work often centers on the dissonance between Native......
silkscreen, sophisticated stenciling technique for surface printing, in which a design is cut out of paper or another......
Benjamin Silliman was a geologist and chemist who founded the American Journal of Science and wielded a powerful......
Ignazio Silone was an Italian novelist, short-story writer, and political leader, world famous during World War......
Simon & Schuster, Inc., American publishing house. It was founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster,......
Sinclair Broadcast Group, American telecommunications conglomerate, one of the largest television-station operators......
siren, noisemaking device producing a piercing sound of definite pitch. Used as a warning signal, it was invented......
Siri, digital assistant included within Apple devices’ operating system. Siri was introduced with the iPhone 4S......
Sketchpad, the first interactive computer-graphics program. Sketchpad originated as American engineer Ivan Sutherland’s......
Skype, software used to communicate over the Internet, which included voice, video, and instant message capabilities.......
Adolf Slaby was a physicist and pioneer in German wireless telegraphy. Slaby studied at the Berlin Trade Academy......
Slashdot, Web site created by Rob Malda, an American college student, in September 1997 in order to provide technology......
Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist best known for his poems “Beach Burial,” a moving tribute......
Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican entrepreneur who became one of the wealthiest people in the world. His extensive......
smartphone, mobile telephone with a display screen (typically a liquid crystal display, or LCD), built-in personal......
smartwatch, a small smartphonelike device worn on the wrist. Many smartwatches are connected to a smartphone that......
A.J.M. Smith was a Canadian poet, anthologist, and critic who was a leader in the revival of Canadian poetry of......
Dick Smith is an Australian aviator, filmmaker, explorer, businessman, and publisher, renowned for his aviation......
George Smith was a British publisher, best known for issuing the works of many Victorian writers and for publishing......
social media, a form of mass media communications on the Internet (such as on websites for social networking and......
social network, in computers, an online community of individuals who exchange messages, share information, and,......
software, instructions that tell a computer what to do. Software comprises the entire set of programs, procedures,......
software agent, a computer program that performs various actions continuously and autonomously on behalf of an......
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist and historian, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature......
Son Masayoshi is a Japanese entrepreneur who served as chairman and CEO of Softbank Corp, a media and telecommunications......
Oscar Sonneck was an American musicologist, librarian, and editor. Sonneck was mainly educated in Germany and attended......
Fernando Monteiro de Castro Soromenho was a white Angolan novelist writing in Portuguese who depicted African life......
sorting algorithm, in computer science, a procedure for ordering elements in a list by repeating a sequence of......
sound card, integrated circuit that generates an audio signal and sends it to a computer’s speakers. The sound......
sound recording, transcription of vibrations in air that are perceptible as sound onto a storage medium, such as......
sound track, in motion-picture technology, narrow band, usually along the margin of the film, that carries the......
SoundCloud, music streaming service where users upload and promote their own music and audio content. SoundCloud......
Christopher Sower was a German-born American printer and Pietist leader of the Pennsylvania Germans. Sower migrated......
spam, unsolicited commercial electronic messages. Although e-mail is the most common means of transmitting spam,......
Jared Sparks was an American publisher and editor of the North American Review, biographer, and president of Harvard......
special delivery, service provided by the U.S. Postal Service for handling urgent mail. For the payment of an extra......
speed, in photography, any of those standards that indicate (1) the size of the lens opening, or aperture, (2)......
spelling and grammar checkers, computer programs that identify apparent misspellings and grammatical errors by......
Carl Spitteler was a Swiss poet of visionary imagination and author of pessimistic yet heroic verse. He was awarded......
spreadsheet, computer program that represents information in a two-dimensional grid of data, along with formulas......
Axel Springer was a German publisher who founded Axel Springer Verlag AG, one of the largest publishing concerns......
spyware, type of computer program that is secretly installed on a person’s computer or mobile device in order to......
SQL, computer language designed for eliciting information from databases. In the 1970s computer scientists began......
standard operating procedure (SOP), set of written guidelines or instructions for the completion of a routine task,......
Frank Stanton was an innovative American radio and television executive, who was president of the Columbia Broadcasting......
star catalog, list of stars, usually according to position and magnitude (brightness) and, in some cases, other......
Starlink, is a satellite network that provides Internet service developed by the American aerospace company SpaceX.......
static random access memory (SRAM), type of random access memory that gives fast access to data but is physically......
William Thomas Stead was a British journalist, editor, and publisher who founded the noted periodical Review of......
stereophonic sound system, equipment for sound recording and reproduction that utilizes two or more independent......
stereotype, type of printing plate developed in the late 18th century and widely used in letterpress, newspaper,......
Hugo Stinnes was a German industrialist who emerged after World War I as Germany’s “business kaiser,” controlling......
stored-program computer, a computer that stores instructions in its memory to enable it to perform a variety of......
streaming, method of transmitting a media file in a continuous stream of data that can be processed by the receiving......
streaming media, multimedia transferred, or “streamed,” over the Internet for instant consumption by an end user.......
street photography, a genre of photography that records everyday life in a public place. The very publicness of......
Stuxnet, a computer worm, discovered in June 2010, that was specifically written to take over certain programmable......
stylus, pointed instrument for writing and marking. The stylus was used in ancient times as a tool for writing......
Substack, online platform that allows content creators to make newsletters and to send them by email through free......
substitution cipher, data encryption scheme in which units of the plaintext (generally single letters or pairs......
Arthur Hays Sulzberger was a U.S. newspaper publisher. The son-in-law of Adolph Ochs, he joined the staff of The......
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger was an American newspaper publisher who led The New York Times through an era in which many......
Sun Microsystems, former American manufacturer of computer workstations, servers, and software. In 2010 the company......
supercomputer, any of a class of extremely powerful computers. The term is commonly applied to the fastest high-performance......
superheterodyne reception, the commonest technique for recovering the information (sound or picture) from carrier......
Robert Smith Surtees was an English novelist of the chase and the creator of Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic......
May Swenson was an American poet whose work is noted for its engaging imagery, intricate wordplay, and eccentric......
switching, in communications, equipment and techniques for enabling any station in a communications system to be......
symbol, a communication element intended to simply represent or stand for a complex of person, object, group, or......
A U.S. $1 bill is one of the world’s most recognizable currencies, but how closely have you looked at it? The bill......
system software, an operating system and the utility programs that come with it, such as those to compile (translate)......
systems analysis, in information processing, a phase of systems engineering. The principal objective of the systems......
systems programming, development of computer software that is part of a computer operating system or other control......
T1, Type of broadband telecommunications connection (see broadband technology) used especially to connect Internet......
tablet computer, computer that is intermediate in size between a laptop computer and a smartphone. Early tablet......
Tachikawa Keiji is a Japanese business executive who was a leader in Japan’s telecommunications industry through......
talking drum, any of various types of drums that, by imitating the rhythm and the rise and fall of words in languages,......
André Leon Talley was an influential fashion editor who grew up in the segregated South and rose through the historically......
Tanaka Kakuei was a politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and who subsequently became the......
tape recorder, recording system that makes use of electromagnetic phenomena to record and reproduce sound waves.......
Tom Taylor was an English journalist and biographer and also one of the most popular dramatists of his time. He......
TCP/IP, standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances.......
