Simple definitions – 4 – Information

1. Information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.

2. Information Age is a term that has been used to refer to the present era. The name alludes to the global economy’s shift in focus away from the production of physical goods (as exemplified by the industrial age) and towards the manipulation of information.

3. Information Technology is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.

4. Communication is the process of attempting to suggest information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium.

5. Media (Singular: Medium) are the storage and transmission tools used to store and deliver information or data.

6. Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience

7. An audience is a group of people who encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium.

8. Commercial advertising media can include wall paintings, billboards, street furniture components, printed flyers and rack cards, radio, cinema and television ads, web banners, mobile telephone screens, shopping carts, web popups, skywriting, bus stop benches, human directional, magazines, newspapers, town criers, sides of buses or airplanes (“logojets”), in-flight advertisements on seatback tray tables or overhead storage bins, taxicab doors, roof mounts and passenger screens, musical stage shows, subway platforms and trains, elastic bands on disposable diapers, stickers on apples in supermarkets, shopping cart handles, the opening section of streaming audio and video, posters, and the backs of event tickets and supermarket receipts.

9. Electronic media are media that utilize electronics or electromechanical energy for the end user (audience) to access the content

10. In media production and publishing, content is information and experiences that may provide value for an end-user/audience.

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Simple defintions -3 (Business)

1. A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers.

2. Consumers refers to individuals or households that use goods and services generated within the economy.

3. A good in economics is any object, service or right that increases utility, directly or indirectly, not to be confused with the adjective “good” as used in a moral or ethical sense.

4. A service is the diametrically opposed non-material counterpiece of a physical good.

5. Trade is the willing exchange of goods, services, or both. Trade is also called commerce.

6. Utility is a measure of the relative satisfaction from or desirability of consumption of various goods and services.

7. An industry (from Latin industrius, “diligent, industrious”) is the manufacturing of a good or service within a category

8. Markets may be any of a variety of different systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby persons trade, and goods and services are exchanged, forming part of the economy.

9. Business-to-consumer (B2C, sometimes also called Business-to-Customer) describes activities of businesses serving end consumers with products and/or services.

10. Business-to-business (B2B) is a term commonly used to describe commerce transactions between businesses.

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Simple definitions – Part 2 – Religion

1. A religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law.

2. Hinduism is a religious tradition that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

3. Islam is a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure.

4. Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the New Testament.

5. Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, “Judah”; in Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, Yahedut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean eáqnov) is the religion of the Jews.

6. A ritual is a set of actions, often thought to have symbolic value, the performance of which is usually prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community by religious or political laws because of the perceived efficacy of those actions

7. Practice or practise (verb form in British English) is the act of rehearsing a behavior over and over, or engaging in an activity again and again, for the purpose of improving or mastering it, as in the phrase “practice makes perfect”.

8. Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.

9. God is the principal or sole deity in religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. The singular, capitalized God of monotheistic religions is commonly contrasted with the gods of polytheistic religions.

10. Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious devotion, typically directed to one or more deities.

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