Online Journalism - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY
Online Journalism - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY
Online Journalism - Ayo Menulis FISIP UAJY
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252 <strong>Online</strong> <strong>Journalism</strong><br />
open source Programs whose source code is in the public domain and freely<br />
distributed. Anyone can modify or repurpose such programs, or extend them<br />
through the development of other software that will operate in conjunction<br />
with them. The operating system LINUX is open source.<br />
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) A security system mainly for email that employs<br />
public key cryptography. It is based on the notion that users should be able<br />
to choose who they can trust.<br />
plug-in An applications program used in a browser to view or play multimedia<br />
downloaded from the web.<br />
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) A browser-readable file format which<br />
encodes images pixel by pixel.<br />
portal A website designed as a main point of entry to the web usually offering<br />
a combination of news, an index of other sites and a search engine. Users can<br />
set a favourite portal as the default site that their browser will load up to.<br />
push/pull Push technologies send data to clients without the client<br />
requesting it. Pull data is requested by clients. The web is based on a pull<br />
technology with web pages only being transmitted at the request of clients.<br />
Broadcast media are push media in that they send information out regardless<br />
of whether they even have an audience. While they remain the exception<br />
there are now many examples of push media systems (such as Pointcast) on<br />
the web. Email is a good example of push media.<br />
search engine Web-based software which allows users to search web<br />
resources by keyword.<br />
server (see host)<br />
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) The international<br />
standard for markup languages.<br />
Shockwave A Macromedia technology which enables web pages to include<br />
multimedia objects. Most current web editors include the possibility of<br />
adding ‘shocked’ files to web pages. For Shockwave objects to work the client<br />
needs the Shockwave plug-in.<br />
shovelware The inappropriate and direct transfer of text from one medium<br />
to another against the dictates of convention and genre. Early television<br />
drama might be considered to have been shovelled from the stage (see form<br />
and content).<br />
style sheet The instructions that enable a browser to produce a web page,<br />
with its component layout, colours, fonts, etc., from a marked-up document.
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