Chap. 2 & 5

Question 1

What is encoding and decoding? 

Answer 1

It’s the way in which we take the ideas in our head and translate them into a form that we can do something with 

Question 2

What was one of the first ways of encoding? 

Answer 2

Words/language 

Question 3

What was one of the first technological inventions of the digital communication era

Answer 3

The transistor invented in 1947 

Question 4

What does the micro processor do? 

Answer 4

It’s the tiny chip that goes inside computers and enables people to do more with ones and zeros. It also made computers, more affordable, and portable. 

Question 5

What did fiber optics help with? 

Answer 5

Fiber, optics allowed more computers to connect with each other and more information to be shared. Also making it more accessible to different areas. 

Question 6

What does technological determinism suggest. Is it a way of thinking?

Answer 6

Technological determinism is a way of thinking about tech. Is it just that take appears out of nowhere and changes everything. Basically says the tech determines how we live.

Question 7

Who was the Internet in initially built for? 

Answer 7

It was initially developed for in by the government during the start of the Cold War. 

Question 8

What were the primary reasons according to lecture about why the Internet was developed? 

Answer 8

The primary reasons were for the military, communication for during warfare and for research. 

Question 9

What taste culture and environment significantly impacted the ideas in the value of the Internet? 

Answer 9

Universities, academics, and large research companies or the environment and taste culture that significantly impacted the Internet.

Question 10

What did the Teays culture give to the Internet? 

Answer 10

Open source ethos. Which is based in the idea that the Internet and information ship should be free, ideas, and info should be able to move freely and be free. 

Question 11

What is Transmedia storytelling? 

Answer 11

It’s a type of storytelling across many different media channels. This can create world building, and the universe is, which is common in action, packed media and interactive media. Some examples would be iCarly, American idol, and fantasy football. 

Question 12

Who is most likely to get a utopian perspective on media? 

Answer 12

Tech companies 

Question 13

What are the three aspects and forces of the Internet and digital communication 

Answer 13

Number one democratize is access to info. Number two it democratize is the production of information (can lead to more misinformation and this information and causes there to be really any gate. Keepers and people can drop the free-speech argument ), and number three and enables manipulation of the information (allows consumers to do things with the media that consume, such as remix ).

Question 14

What is an example of satellite radio? 

Answer 14

 SiriusXM 

Question 15

What is remediation and what is an example it can apply to 

Answer 15

Remediation is something that happens all the time due to humans trying to make sense of new technology through the lens of old technology. A great example would be streaming services like Spotify using the word radio on the platform. 

Question 16

What what were the most famous genres of radio when it was born? 

Answer 16

Sitcoms, soap operas, political, commentary, and minstrel. 

Question 17

 What’s another word for the electromagnetic spectrum? 

Answer 17

The Ether

Question 18

What did the telegraph separate human communication? 

Answer 18

Transportation 

Question 19

Who is that millions of dollars to construct telephone and graph lines around the United States? 

Answer 19

AT&T 

Question 20

Who is one of the notable people who contributed to the invention of the telephone? 

Answer 20

In Italian teen named Marconi 

Question 21

Why did the US Navy want access to radio and ships?

Answer 21

For ship to ship and ship to shore communication 

Question 22

Why were there so many amateurs and hobbyist of radio? 

Answer 22

Because they figured out how easy it was to build your own radio receiver, using crystals 

Question 23

What does the quater of early radio reveal? 

Answer 23

The clatter revealed scarcity and airwaves 

Question 24

What has become the predominant way that we experience the world? 

Answer 24

Socially mediated

Question 25

What are the main things that the Internet includes technically wise? 

Answer 25

Fiber, optic lines, wireless connections, and satellite systems

Question 26

What are one and zeros called?

Answer 26

They are called bits and eight bits equal a byte 

Question 27

What are the four phases of Internet history? 

Answer 27

The pre-web Internet, web 1.0, web 2.0, and web 3.0. 

Question 28

What department of the military develop the Internet 

Answer 28

The department of defense 

Question 29

What were the four colleges that link their super computers to network and speak to one another? 

Answer 29

Stanford, University of California Santa Barbara, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Utah. 

Question 30

What was the ARPANET? 

Answer 30

The ARPANET was with a network was called established by the four universities that enabled researchers, the pool, computing power and establish the corner stone. What will become Internet infrastructure

Question 31

What are fiber optic cables made of and what did they replace? 

Answer 31

They were made of glass and replaced metal wires as the standard for network connections. This increase the amount of data networks could handle and the speed by which data could be transmitted. 

Question 32

As the Cold War ended, how did the responsibility of the Internet shift? 

Answer 32

The responsibilities shifted from government agencies to private industry 

Question 33

What made it easier for the Internet to navigate? 

Answer 33

The World Wide Web, which came about in the 1990s 

Question 34

What helped form, webpages, and links between files

Answer 34

HTML or hypertext markup language 

Question 35

What did the section 230 of the communications decency act do? 

Answer 35

It protected any company operating an “interactive computer service “ from liability for anything published on their service by a third party.

Question 36

What is the Internet of Things?

Answer 36

It’s integrating the internet into almost every part of our environment

Question 37

Again, what are the 3 complex dynamics that arise from 3- key digital era developments?

Answer 37

Decentralization of digital tech, the creation of online communities, and the manipulation of digital content.

Question 38

Who is being mainly affected and out of jobs because of the decentralization of creation on the spreed of info

Answer 38

Centralized gatekeepers ( editors, TV managers, record execs. )

Question 39

What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation?

Answer 39

Misinformation is when false or mislendig info is spread by someone who believer it’s true. Disinformation is false or misleading info spread by people who know it’s false with malicious or bad intent

Question 40

How does the bonds we build on social media and the internet contribute to the issues of fragmentation and polarization?

Answer 40

Those bonds can make it harder to build bonds with others that don’t fit into a rich we associate with

Question 41

What are online filter bubbles?

Answer 41

They’re spaces where we’re only exposed to ideas and opinions that match or existing beliefs.

Question 42

What can make us none vulnerable to false info?

Answer 42

Surrounding ourselves with networks of like-minded people can make us none vulnerable to false information.

Question 43

What can make it harder for democratic society to function effectively?

Answer 43

Fragmentation

Question 44

What is common way of manipulating media?

Answer 44

Remix culture