Chapter 2: The Digital Media

Question 1

What is internet?

Answer 1

A network of wireless connection, that links digital devices to data centers around the world.

Question 2

What is ARPAnet?

Answer 2

It enables researches to pool computing power and was created by the U.S department of defense. They enabled protocols.

Question 3

What are protocols?

Answer 3

Protocols are supercomputers to join network and communicate.

Question 4

What is the World wide web?

Answer 4

A place to create, post, and locate documents on the internet.

Question 5

What is HTMl?

Answer 5

(Hypertext markup language) This is language for displaying text, images, and other multimedia.

Question 6

What are browsers?

Answer 6

They are software applications that help users navigate the web. (Brought to audiences in 1993)

Question 7

What are ISP’s?

Answer 7

(Internet Service Providers) Offers internet access to home users. This initially occurred via a modem and telephone dial-up.

Question 8

What is a broadband?

Answer 8

These are connections that allow for a much faster download speed.

Question 9

What is a search engine?

Answer 9

These offered a more automated way to find content.

Question 10

What is a WIKI?

Answer 10

They are open and collaborative websites where people work together to create and edit content.

Question 11

What is the semantic web?

Answer 11

This allows computers to examine web pages and databases and provide solutions to people’s needs.

Question 12

What is the internet of things?

Answer 12

This integrates the internet into almost every part of our enviroment.

Question 13

What are gatekeepers?

Answer 13

a person or thing that controls access to something.

Question 14

What is confirmation bias?

Answer 14

The tendency to seek out information that sticks to our beliefs.

Question 15

What are filter bubbles?

Answer 15

Spaces that we are only exposed to ideas that match our beliefs, like social media.

Question 16

What does analog mean?

Answer 16

a category that refers to various ways of encoding information that existed before the binary code.

Question 17

What is a remix culture?

Answer 17

A society in which people are able to create and communicate by mixing around texts/media.

Question 18

What is a right of fair use?

Answer 18

This is a legal doctrine which allows people to use copyrighted material without permission as long as it does not compromise its material.

Question 19

What are deepfakes?

Answer 19

Deepfakes are a result of manipulation, and they are images/videos that use advanced digital editing to create fraudulent but convincing content.

Question 20

What is surveillance capitalism?

Answer 20

This is the way that large corporations make money by controlling user’s personal data. Google, amazon, and facebook do this.

Question 21

What is data mining?

Answer 21

These track search histories, locations, browser settings

Question 22

What are cookies?

Answer 22

These are computer files that automatically collect and transfer info between a website and a users browser.

Question 23

What is an IP address?

Answer 23

The unique number that every device uses when communicating on the internet.

Question 24

What are surveillance states?

Answer 24

These are societies in which governments conduct systematic mass surveillance on their population.

Question 25

What are walled gardens?

Answer 25

These are highly managed environments brought to us through apps.

Question 26

What is net neutrality?

Answer 26

This assumes that all data being sent across the internet will be treated the same.

Question 27

What are opt-in policies?

Answer 27

This requires websites to obtain explicit permission before collecting browsing history data.

Question 28

What is open-source software?

Answer 28

This refers to software built by the public as part of a collective effort.

Question 29

What is universal access?

Answer 29

The notion that every citizen regardless of situation should have access to a technology.

Question 30

What is the digital divide?

Answer 30

The contrast between those who can afford to purchase technology and pay for internet and those who cannot.