Shaded terms for chapter four

Digital media literacy: The ability to access, create, analyze and act upon digital media.

Media ecosystem: The interconnected relationships between people, communities, information, news and media. As complex as an environmental ecosystem.

Cloud computing: A general expression used to describe computer memory and programs that reside at another location, usually in a client server, rather than in the device you are using.

Arts journalism: Reporting and commentary on the arts, including coverage and reviews of movies, books, music and theater.

Open journalism: A way to produce news that is transparent to the public and allows for community participation.

Collaborative: The process of multiple people or organizations working together.

Sunshine Laws: Laws requiring government information and meetings to be open to the public. City and state laws differ, though most were inspired by the 1976 federal law, Government in the Sunshine Act.

Some of the shaded terms are in the text; others are in the Learning Layer; still others are in the source material linked to from the book. This list helps define them, wherever they are found.