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CMNS 210 - Final Exam Review
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How did the telegraph offer new models for thinking?
It supported late-stage capitalism
It supported monopoly capitalism
It separated communicaiton from transportation
It changed ordinary thought about where people are situated in the world
2
Colourblind conceptions of media and technology are fair and equitable
True
False
3
How is light a channel for communication?
To transmit information
As a signifier of status and class
It can act as a technology of surveillance
It's not
4
Navajo women were used to assemble semi-conductors together because
Their brains naturally thought in patterns of right-angle colors and shapes
They had inherent Indigenous virtues such as stoicism, pride in crafts
They had inherent and inborn manual dexterity
Government incentives to develop light industry as occupational education
5
Los Angeles is a sprawling city because of the way their communication infrastructure was built
True
False
6
The use of Navajo Women to assemble semiconductors was fair and equitable
False
True
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Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb
True
False
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When we talk about Internet history we are talking about the Internet as technology for digital communication
False
True
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How did light act as communication through the lantern laws?
As a form of knowledge
As a media technology
As a form of control
As a form of surveillance
10
The domestication of electric lighting
Positioned as a technology for men
Drew on fear of social shame and exclusion
Was necessary for having a good quality life
Move by the government to bring light into the home
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What info can we draw from looking at this map of cable networks?
The cable was a means of connecting power
Power was distributed evenly across a network
Power was centralized and emanated outwards
Embodied ideologies of Western colonial domination
12
The Information Age
is where information becomes commodified
beomes the building block of modern life
Saw no changes in the way we understand labour and work
is tied to adoption of computing in professional and institutional spheres
13
Black folks were early adopters of the internet and used it to create a Black public sphere
False
True
14
Edison is credited as the inventor of the lightbulb beause of his high visibility and position of power
False
True
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18th century Laterns Laws decreed that all NYC citizens must carry lanterns to walk through the city after sunset
True
False
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Why is domesticity used to stabilize the plasticity of a technology?
It creates an obvious and familiar context for a technology
Applies new and intimidating tech to practices that are very comfortable
The home is a place of contentment
Women are suckers who will buy anything
17
Social imaginaries behind media technologies
are beliefs people have about how a collective practice in a given society
Naturalize one dominant narrative of a media technology
inform how we research, understand, and write about the origins of media
shape how histories of media technologies are told
18
Ideologies provide models for thinking
False
True
19
The erasure of Black people from internet history is part of a larger pattern of white supremacy in media history
False
True
20
The telegraph supported monopoly capitalism by personalizing relations
True
False
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The internet was developed fear of espionage and spies
False
True
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A centralized network is the ideal model for the internet bc messages can be rerouted if a tie breaks or is damaged
True
False
23
Access to infrastructure is equal
True
False
24
The telegraph changed ordinary thought by
standardizing it
making people aware of large, complex, interconnected systems for 1st time
highlighting social, self-sustaining, contained communities
creating time zones
25
A colourblind social imaginary often means that an unconscious bias gets built into the design of a technology
False
True
26
Beautification is the process of not changing the visual and aesthetics of a space because it's so beautiful already
False
True
27
Articulation is the form of the connection that can make a unity of two different elements, under certain conditions
False
True
28
The TV moved from public spaces to private spaces through the process of domestication
False
True
29
Ideology is a system of ideas, beliefs, and common-sense values that form the basis of cultures, economies, or politics
False
True
30
When we talk about Internet history we are talking about the consumer internet
False
True
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Domestication of Technology is
Bringing technology into domestic spaces
An industrial strategy
Always tied to gender and race
A natural process that happens autonomously
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The domestication of electric lighting is entirely in the past
False
True
33
The separation of communication from transporation
The beginning of globalization
Offered new models for thinking about space, distance and speed
Allowed communication to control physical processes actively
Was the start of globalization
34
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
emerged because of WWII
was funded by U.S. Defense Department
begins at Stanford University
was to build a technology that would allow computers to talk to each other
35
Lantern laws deputized white people in New York City
False
True
36
Plasticity describes the inflexibility or rigidity (like hard plastic) of a new tech in its 1st stage of introduction
False
True
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Surveillance is
Monitoring, analyzing, and acting on information about the people
A tool to keep people safe
gathered to regulate behavior, and control/influence individuals + groups
Woven into the fabric of daily life
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Beautification is
Introduction of greenery + plant life, painting murals and/or afforestation
The process of admiring a beautiful space
The process of improving the visual and aesthetics of a space
All of the above
39
What was the broader social context that the TV emerged from?
The growing popularity of public or semi-public spaces
A change in the nature of work
Demands for leisure time
40
Cheap, female labor is held up as THE foundation of digital media’s existence
True
False
41
What was TV's broader social context in the post-war period?
Research and development on technology as state binding/making
Investment in technological progress
DIvestment from technological progress
Post-war gender roles
42
The domestication of the phonograph was a response to it's limited uses
True
False
43
When phonographs first emerged, they were largely used in the home
True
False
44
The first MacIntosh computer was positioned as a tool for democracy
True
False
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The telegraph was invented in 1960
False
True
