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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)

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Current Version:
2020
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Media studies
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47 words
Running two live versions of a webpage or a video (the original and a variant) with *viewers automatically divided between them, to see which leads to a better conversion rate (such as ... More
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A Dictionary of Social Media

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2016
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Media studies
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44 words

Running two live versions of a webpage or a video (the original and a variant) with viewers automatically divided between them, to see which leads to a better ...

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr  

(1756–1836)US Democratic Republican statesman. After losing the presidential election to Jefferson in 1800, Burr was elected Vice-President. He was defeated in the contest for the governorship of New ...
abacus

abacus  

An ancient device for performing arithmetic calculations by sliding beads along rods or in grooves. Despite the spread of electronic calculators and computers, the abacus is still widely used in the ...
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A Dictionary of Journalism

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2014
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Media studies
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38 words

A section of the *Audit Bureau of Circulation established in 1996 to measure the audience reach of *digital media...

ABC News

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A Dictionary of Journalism

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Current Version:
2014
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Media studies
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54 words

A major broadcast news network in the USA that is engaged in a *ratings battle with *NBC. ABC News is the news arm of the ...

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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)

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2020
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Media studies
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A form of logical *inference involving the generation of a *hypothesis that, if true, would be a plausible explanation for some otherwise unexplained phenomenon. Peirce argues that ... More
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abduction  

An inference process widely used in artificial intelligence, particularly in expert systems and rule-based systems. In diagnosis, for example, there may be a rule like “if measles then red spots” so ...
aberrant decoding

aberrant decoding  

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Making sense of a message or text in terms of a different code from the one used to encode it (Eco). This can be the basis for cultural misunderstandings: for example, the hand gesture made by ...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)

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Current Version:
2020
Subject:
Media studies
Length:
82 words

Making sense of a *message or *text in terms of a different *code from the one used to encode it (Eco). This can be the basis for cultural misunderstandings: for example, the hand ...

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