Assignment+3-+Cultural+Capital+Terms

__**Cultural Capital Terms:**__


 * 1) **Citizen Journalism** is when people of the public are involved in journalism. It is when the public opens up to organizations and send them information on events, party’s, talk on blogspots and let journalists in on the “inside scoop”. [[image:http://theobaldwolfgang.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/citizen_journalism_42.jpg width="315" height="360" align="right"]]
 * 2) **AirStrip Technologies** (Formerly "MP4 Solutions") is a software development company located in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Their product is //AirStrip OB// which provides obstetricians with the ability to view fetal monitoring waveforms in real time remotely from their PDA or Smartphone. It frees doctors from having to be attached to a local network, as the data is sent out over the Internet (either via the cellphone network, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.)
 * 3) The **First Gulf War,** also known as the __Persian Gulf War__**,** was a United Nations certified military conflict between Iraq and a union force from 34 nations commissioned with ejecting Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's occupation and invasion of Kuwait in August 1990.
 * 4) **Twitter** is a new free social networking service that enables its users to send and read each others updates. Twitter was currently ranked as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1382%, Zimbio of 240%, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228%. [[image:http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/ca/reviews/2006/0307/tv-transition.jpg width="360" height="208" align="right"]]
 * 5) **Digital Television** is the new standard for television watching. Digital uses progressive and interlaced scan, features more lines of resolution, and offers a much clearer and stable picture able to quickly decipher fast, moving images. All stations are required to make a full transition to digital by December 31, 2006 and everyones TV should be Digital by June 12, 2009.
 * 6) **BBN Technologies** is a high technology company which provides research and development services. BBN is next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is perhaps best known for its work in the 1978 acoustical analysis for the House Select Committee on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but it is also a defense contractor.
 * 7) **Interactive-Voice-Response System, or I.V.R** is the automated service you get whenever you dial a utility or an airline or any other big American company. I.V.R.s are the speaking tube that connects corporate America to its clients.[[image:http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/robot_convo.jpg width="343" height="201" align="left"]] Companies admit that they are interested in what their customers have to say, but they don’t want to pay an employee to talk to a caller if they can avoid it; the average human to human call costs the company at least five dollars. Once an I.V.R. has been paid for, a human to I.V.R. call costs practically nothing.