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Abstraction

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Willingly ignore certain aspects of reality to have a better grip on other aspects of reality. / Simplifying complex systems (less details - non important)

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Automation

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Process in which media and technological procedures replace what humans did.

New human-machine relationships

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Modes of Address

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Adapting both the content and the way you are speaking to the situation.

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Geographical space (Straus)

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Closed and therefore transparent, it is systematized. Railway traveling causes a lesser balanced and worse relationship between landscape and geography and destroys the relationship between the traveler and the traveled place.

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The synthetic philosophy of the glance

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The ability to perceive the discrete, as it rolls past the window, indiscriminately.

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Panoramic view

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Passive, distance experience of landscape passing by.

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Optical unconscious

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Idea that photographs can capture more than just what is immediately visible to the eye. Makes us aware of our limitations.

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Visible invisibility

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The revelation of an unseen world that photography does not fully disclose, but makes us aware of it in its invisibility. (Avery Gordon)

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Vaudeville

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Mass entertainment with mixed programs.

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Nickelodeon

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Permanent venue for moving images.

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Imagined Community

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The members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion.

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Domestication

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The process in which a technology is adapted to the private family spaces

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Gamification

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When activities like language learning are structured by levels, achievements, competition.

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Before or after 20th century developments….

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use of photography to analyze motion
image creation through machine learning/AI
electrical telegraphy
international standardization of time

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20th century

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emergence of the internet
experiments with virtual reality
broadcast radio
narrative cinema

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What is the historial relationship between computers and simulation?

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Simulation existed before but computer allowed for more complex simulation

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In his text on the infrastructures of climate science, Paul Edward’s describes how computerization changed climate science. What is his argument?

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Computer calculations were used for the re-analysis of data which allowed for more global and historical consistency.

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In her text on the early web, Tara McPherskn describes three key characteristics of the web experience in the 1990s. Identify two of these characteristics in the following list:

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Transformation
Scan and research

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According to paul edward’s, climate sciences account of climate history keep on changing. Why is this the case?

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The re-analysis of past data offers new details and new perspectives.

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What is the relationship between the internet and the cyberspace?

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Cyberspace is one of the metaphors to describe the internet as spatial experience

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Tara Mcpherson argues that the experience of the web is related to the wider emergence of post-fordism. What characterizes this?

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Increasing valorization of information

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Tom gunning and others suggest that the block buster cinema of recent decades is a return to an earlier period of cinema. Which one?

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Cinema of attractions

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In Mcpherson’s text on the early web in 1990s, she compares the temporal experience of tv and the web, what is her argument?

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In contrast to tv, liveness on the web is experienced through activity and choice

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What is the term used to refer to the historical period that runs from circa 1800 to circa 1970s?

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Modernity

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In his text on the infrastructures of climate science, Paul discuses the role of data and of models for climate science. What is his argument?

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The collection and understanding of data is dependent on modes

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The modeling behavior to predict possible future developments if called:

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Simulation

27
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Industrialization started around…?

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1800 in England

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According to Tom Gunning the model for narrative cinema is:

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The stage play and the novel

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What was the role of indigenous music on early mexican radio?

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It became element in creating a national culture

To counter commercialized US-culture with authenticity

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What was the scale of telegraphy networks at the end of the 19th century?

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There was a global network with several undersea cables

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how did the term cyberspace change?

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While originally introduced as a dystopian concept, it got more utopian later.

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2 consequences of industrialization

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division of labor and
more and more people live in cities

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What was the position of women actors in the early family sitcom us tv?

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They were allowed to be funny as long as the humor was restrained through the domestic setting

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When the tv entered the domestic space of the us families, what were two common strategies to adapt the new technology to the family space?

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decorate the set with photos, vases, etc

hide the tv set in cupboards

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Match the gaming decide with the correct technical feature

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arcarde game * hard wired

home consoles * programmable

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What are similarities between train travel and city life?

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amount of constantly changing perceptions

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1906

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nickelodeon’s
intertitles started getting used
imitating theater
cinema of narrative integration

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1917

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classical hollywood cinema
movie palaces
feature film

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1895-1906

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views
Méliès
vaudeville exhibitor determines program
cinema of attraction

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Two of the following are necessary preconditions for the invention of the cinema. Which two?

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A photographic base flexible enough to pass through a camera rapidly

The existence of an intermittent mechanism for both camera and projectors

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What are two disconnections experienced by travelers?

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the fellows travelers and the landscape

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A historical approach that researched early cinema only as a precursor to later cinematic forms is called

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Teleological

43
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Match media

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electrical telegraphy * decoupling communication from mobility

wireless telegraphy * covering space

44
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What is a good definition of augmented reality?

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The display of digital information is integrated with the user’s physical environment

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How did the sense of time change throughout the 19th century?

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Local times were synchronized across countries eventually leading to global time zones.

Schedules of trains and factory work made time keeping relevant for increasingly more people.

46
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Which transport networks existed already before industrialization?

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Postal routes and
transatlantic slave trade

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