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·      BARB- The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) is the organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in the United Kingdom.

·       WEBCASTING LICENSE- A license to legally play a media presentation over the internet.

·       TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE- Media technological convergence is the tendency that as technology changes, different technological system sometimes evolves toward performing similar tasks.

·       WEB 3.O OR SEMANTIC WEB- a proposed development of the World Wide Web in which data in web pages is structured and tagged in such a way that it can be read directly by computers.

·       INTERNET OF THINGS- the interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data.

·       BINGE-VIEWING- watch multiple episodes of (a television programme) in rapid succession, typically by means of DVDs or digital streaming.

·       DAB- Digital audio broadcasting (DAB), also known as digital radio and high-definition radio, is audio broadcasting in which analog audio is converted into a digital signal and transmitted on an assigned channel in the AM or (more usually) FM frequency range.

·       TRADITIONAL MEDIA- Any form of mass communication available before the advent of digital media. This includes television, radio, newspapers, books, and magazines.

·       GOOGLE ANALYTICS- Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.

·       RAJAR- RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK.

·       NRS- The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom. They were originally developed by the National Readership Survey (NRS) to classify readers, but are now used by many other organisations for wider applications and have become a standard for market research.

·       MIDAS- MIDAS media is a specialist PPC advertising agency

·       CULTURAL IMPERIALISM- Cultural imperialism comprises the cultural aspects of imperialism. Imperialism here refers to the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between civilizations, favouring the more powerful civilization.

·       DEMOCRATISATION OF THE MASS MEDIA- Democratisation is the transition to a more democratic political regime. It also refers to substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.

·       EFFECTS OF PIRACY- Decrease in Sales of Legal Copies, the street price will rise if most price-sensitive consumers switch to illegal copies while the most price-insensitive consumers do not.

·       HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION- the process of a company increasing production of goods of services at the same part of the supply chain.

·       VERTICAL INTEGRATION- the combination in one firm of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate firms.

·       DIVERSIFICATION- the action of making or becoming more diverse or varied.

·       ALTERNATIVE MEDIA AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA- Alternative media is media that differs from established or dominant types of media in terms of their content, production and distribution.

·       CONGLOMERATE- a thing consisting of a number of different and distinct parts or items that are grouped together.

·       GRA- Graph

·       PEGI- Pan Europen Game Information is a European video game content rating system established to help European consumers make informed decisions when buying video games or apps through the use of age recommendations and content descriptors.

·       MEDIAWATCH UK- Formally known as the National viewers’ and Listeners Association (National VALA or NVLA), is a pressure group in the UK, which campaigns against the publication and broadcast of media content that it views as harmful and offensive, such as violence, profanity, sex and homosexuality.

·       IPSO- The Independent Press Standards Organisation.

·       WATERSHED- Protecting children from harmful material on TV and radio is one of OFCOM’s most important duties.

·       OFCOM- The Office of Communications, is the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

·       MEDIAWATCH- Journalists analyse the print and electronic media.

·       BBC CHARTER- An Accompanying Agreement recognises its editorial independence and sets out its public obligations in detail.

·       SYNERGY- the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of the separate effects.

·       PSB- Programming produced for the benefit of the public, rather than pure commercial reasons.

·       BROADCAST CODE- The Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters, also known as the Television Code, was a set of ethical standards adopted by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) for television.

·       IWF- The Internet Watch Foundation is a registered charity based in Cambridgeshire, England. It states that it’s remit is to minimise the availability of potentially criminal internet content.