1.1 Digital Life

Key Vocabulary

• • media: communication, including television, radio, and newspapers, that often reaches and impacts a large audience

  • digital media: electronic devices and media platforms such as computers, cell phones, digital video, social networking sites, the Internet, video games, and virtual worlds that allow users to create, communicate, and interact with one another or with the device or application itself

  • simile: a literary device for comparing two unlike things