Language and Media Dictionary of Key Terms (April 2016) Martin Montgomery

vox pop (abb. from Latin vox populi, ‘voice of the people’) media n. a technique used in primarily in news and current affairs broadcasting, but also in reportage and documentary, in which ordinary people are interviewed for their responses to an event or issue, usually in chance encounters in public spaces, so that their views can be incorporated, usually in heavily edited form, into a news item or other forms of documentary footage, in such a way as to suggest a range of reactions and opinions. mmo

white space print n. portions of a page left unmarked or the space between words in a text. sj

Wikipedia media n. a collaborative, open-access, and multilingual online knowledge and information resource launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, which provides reference articles that can be written by anyone with access to the internet. The etymology of its name implies its principles and methodology: a combination of “wiki” from the Hawaiian word meaning “quick” and “encylopedia” from the Greek meaning “general education” or “complete knowledge”. SJ

wired society media n. a society connected by telecommunication and mass communication networks. The term was coined by the British information technology expert, James Martin (b.1933), and formed the title of his Pullitzer prize-winning book The Wired Society: a challenge for tomorrow (1977) which anticipated many future developments such as the internet and the creation of the world wide web. With the advent of digitization the term has been superseded by alternatives such as the network society. mmo syn. wired world.