Class 1 exam

Question 1

Politics, especially international relations, as influenced by geographical factors.

Answer 1

Geopolitics

Question 2

The profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country’s representatives abroad

Answer 2

Diplomacy

Question 3

the authority of a state togovernitself or another state.

Answer 3

Soverignty

Question 4

relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial position, voltage, etc.

Answer 4

Analogue

Question 5

A series of data as described as a series of 0 and 1

Answer 5

Digital

Question 6

Not physically existing as such, but made by software to appear to do so

Answer 6

Virtual

Question 7

Relating to or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality

Answer 7

Cyber

Question 8

Controlled by or connected to a computer; generally, today, referring to being on the Internet in come capacity

Answer 8

Online

Question 9

Term coined to express our lived experience of the ‘ever increasing’ pervasiveness of information and communication technologies; of being connected-disconnected or online and in ‘real life’ at the same time.

Answer 9

Onlife

Question 10

a dynamic and interactive connection between two or more opposing or contradictory forces/ideas/concepts.

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Dialectical relationship

Question 11

“the vast amounts of digital data which are being produced in technologically and algorithmically mediated practices”

Answer 11

Big data

Question 12

an actor’s authority to exercise its power in cyber-space; includes everything from technological (in)dependence to control over user personal data

Answer 12

Digital Soverginty

Question 13

a form of cultural imperialism in which actors use digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another country or region with nominal benefit to the colonised

Answer 13

Digital colonialism

Question 14

Basically, a quasi-state, a political entity that’s not a fully institutionalised, recognised, or autonomous sovereign
state.

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Proto-State

Question 15

the involvement of users, audiences, consumers and fans in the creation of culture and content

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Participatory Culture

Question 16

the intensification and extension of democracy as grassroots democracy to all realms of society

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Participatory Democracy:

Question 17

A form of government characterised by rejection of political plurality, use of strong central power to preserve political status quo, and reductions in or elimination of rule of law, separation of powers, and free and fair
elections

Answer 17

Authoritarianism

Question 18

Also ‘digital dictatorship’; the use of information technology by authoritarian regimes to surveil, repress, and manipulate domestic and foreign populations

Answer 18

Digital Authoritarianism:

Question 19

from the French for ‘oversight’; the monitoring of behaviour or data for purposes of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing.

Answer 19

Digital survalliance:

Question 20

false information deliberately spread to deceive people.

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disinformation

Question 21

bad/false information, which is not deliberate

Answer 21

misinformation

Question 22

a state’s strategy to communicate directly with foreign publics

Answer 22

public diplomacy