Media and Technology

Question 1

Refers to the application of science to solve problems in daily life. Most of the devices, equipment, and manufactured materials can be considered________.

Answer 1

Technology

Question 2

Refers to the difference in information that builds as groups grow up without access to technology

Answer 2

Knowledge gap

Question 3

Refers to the ability to sort through, interpret, and process digital knowledge

Answer 3

E-readiness

Question 4

Refers to the uneven access to technology around race, class, and geographic lines.

Answer 4

Digital divide

Question 5

An economic
system centered around
the commodification of personal
data with the core purpose of profit-making.

Answer 5

Surveillance Capitalism

Question 6

The principle that all Internet data should be treated equally by Internet service providers, is part of the national debate about Internet access and the digital divide.

Answer 6

Net neutrality

Question 7

A term that refers to all print, digital, and electronic means of communication.

Answer 7

Media

Question 8

These are granted for the invention or discovery of any new and useful process, product, or machine, or for a significant improvement to existing technologies.

Answer 8

Utility patents

Question 9

Commonly conferred in architecture and industrial design, this means someone has invented a new and original design for a manufactured product.

Answer 9

Design patent

Question 10

Recognize the discovery of new plant types that can be asexually reproduced.

Answer 10

Plant patents

Question 11

In which a breakthrough in one form of technology leads to a number of variations.

Answer 11

Evolutionary model of technological change

Question 12

Encompasses all interactive forms of information exchange.

Answer 12

New media

Question 13

The business practice of planning for a product to be obsolete or unusable from the time it is created.

Answer 13

Planned obsolescence

Question 14

The worldwide integration of media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas,

Answer 14

Media globalization

Question 15

Refers to the cross-cultural development and exchange of technology.

Answer 15

Technological globalization

Question 16

A process in which fewer and fewer owners control the majority of media outlets.

Answer 16

Media consolidation

Question 17

In which a few firms dominate the media marketplace.

Answer 17

Oligopoly

Question 18

The spread of technology across borders.

Answer 18

Technological diffusion

Question 19

A result in which people are too overwhelmed with media input to really care about the issue, so their involvement becomes defined by awareness instead of by action

Answer 19

Narcotizing dysfunction

Question 20

The sorting process by which thousands of possible messages are shaped into a mass media-appropriate form and reduced to a manageable amount.

Answer 20

Gatekeeping

Question 21

Envisioned by Jeremy Bentham, depicted in the form of an all-powerful, all-seeing government by George Orwell in 1984, and later analyzed by Michel Foucault (1975) is increasingly realized in the form of technology used to monitor our every move.

Answer 21

Panotopic surveillance

Question 22

The application to, and promotion of, feminism online.

Answer 22

Cyberfeminism

Question 23

People who see technology as symbolizing the coldness and alienation of modern life.

Answer 23

Neo-Luddites

Question 24

People who view technology as a symbol of potential for a brighter future.

Answer 24

Technophiles

Question 25

Refers to a product, service, or process (such as a new manufacturing method) that affects an entire industry or way of doing things

Answer 25

Disruptive technology