Deck 8: Communication Ethics and Digital Communication

Question 1

Digital technology the latest in a long history of technological developments in communication.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Writing is not a communication technology.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The technology humans use when they communicate influences how they communication

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In asynchronous communication, communicators exchange messages at the same time.

Question 5

Live video streams are examples of synchronous communication.

Question 6

Virtual proximity is the "as if" communication experience of people who are physical distant from you feeling as if they are physically close.

Question 7

Telepresence is a psychological state where your experience of digitally mediated communication feels as if it were face-to-face communication.

Question 8

A common characteristic of all digital platforms is that each platform filters out to different degrees nonverbal cues.

Question 9

Digitally mediated and face-to-face communication experiences are essentially identical communication transactions.

Question 10

Filtering out nonverbal communication cues filters out some of the emotional content of communication messages.

Question 11

In his study of how relationships develop through digitally mediated communication, Joseph Walther discovered the hyperpersonal relationship.

Question 12

In hyperpersonal relationships, communicators tend to over-interpret the nonverbal messages not filtered out.

Question 13

All digital personal relationships become hyperpersonal relationships.

Question 14

During a face-to-face conversation, a communicator who checks her cell phone for messages is giving her communication partner continuous partial attention.

Question 15

The presence of digital devices can be enough to prevent dialogic presentness during a conversation.

Question 16

Communication with adults distracted by their digital devices can interrupt the face-to-face interaction needed by children for their healthy cognitive, emotional, and moral development.

Question 17

Developing competence in interpreting the emotional content of nonverbal cues is important for the development of a child's empathic capacity.

Question 18

Mindless use of digital devices and continuous partial attention are related to each other.

Question 19

Mindful use of digital technology is important for development digital communication competence.

Question 20

The increasing speed of digital processing creates digital communication overload and our experience of never having enough time.

Question 21

Research shows that multi-tasking is an effective and productive method for working on tasks

Question 22

Research shows that uni-tasking increases work productivity and efficiency.

Question 23

Multi-tasking and digital distraction are incompetent uses of digital technology that undermine the benefits of digital technology for users.

Question 24

Digital filtering manages the flow of digital messages, reducing communication overload.

Question 25

Privacy settings chosen by a digital communicator is an example of unintentional digital filters.

Question 26

Unintentional digital filters are created by algorithms that are written in computer code.

Question 27

Unintentional digital filters have little impact on the communication experiences of digital communicators.

Question 28

Unintentional digital filters help construct digital filter bubbles.

Question 29

Algorithms sort through massive databases to identify what data is important and counts as knowledge.

Question 30

Algorithms in digital software and hardware collect data about individual digital communicators, creating what is called a "digital dossier."

Question 31

Digital advertisers have found that digital dossiers offer little guidance in customizing online advertising.

Question 32

Public relevance algorithms search databases to certify what data is relevant knowledge for discussions and debates about social issues.

Question 33

How public relevance algorithms certify what data counts as knowledge is an objective process that has few political implications.

Question 34

Calculated publics are created by algorithms that identify some common characteristic among people who do not know each other, and then sending digital messages to create digital connections.

Question 35

Algorithms are designed to be responsive to the habits of digital communicators.

Question 36

When digital communicators intentionally change their digital habits, it is possible to change or hack an algorithm.

Question 37

Symmetrical communication is the ideal dynamic of face-to-face communication.

Question 38

In face-to-face communication, human perception is the primary method of filtering information.

Question 39

Digital filtering enhances human perceptual filtering.

Question 40

Intentional and unintentional digital filtering created customized messages for receivers that can reinforce the perceptions of digital communicators.

Question 41

Unintentional digital filters promote a more asymmetrical communication process that de-emphasizes that communicators share responsibility for the quality of their communication exchange.

Question 42

Checking the consistency of verbal and nonverbal communication messages is one way to check if you have understood someone.

Question 43

Digital filtering reduces nonverbal cues that could stimulate perception checking, when nonverbal messages are inconsistent with verbal messages.

Question 44

Without specific verbal messages communication emotions, it is difficult to competently respond to the emotional content of messages in digital communication than in face-to-face communication.

Question 45

The asymmetrical dynamic of digital communication encourages mindless digital communication.

Question 46

The digital filtering of nonverbal cues creates understanding between communicators by filtering out the messiness of human emotions.

Question 47

Some people prefer digital communication to face-to-face communication because it is emotionally easier.

Question 48

The digital filtering of nonverbal cues makes it easier to children to understand the emotional content of messages.

Question 49

By filtering out nonverbal cues, a child's use of digital communication technology may negatively influence her development of her empathic capacity.

Question 50

The negative influences of digital communication technology are more likely to occur when we use digital technology mindlessly.

Question 51

Mindfulness is an important component of competent digital communication.

Question 52

Freedom from the limitations of time, space, and physical reality is one of the attractions of digital communication.

Question 53

Digital anonymity gives us freedom from our bodies and our identities in physical reality.

Question 54

Digital anonymity promotes sovereignal freedom, but not personal freedom.

Question 55

Digital anonymity is always abusive.

Question 56

Digital anonymity protects communicators from consequences of their communication in physical reality.

Question 57

Digital filtering promotes freedom from the immediate emotional consequences of communication messages.

Question 58

Digital anonymity is unlimited.

Question 59

Digital surveillance more frequently occurs at the network or systems level of digital communication, rather than at the level of the individual digital communicator.

Question 60

Depending on how it is used, digital surveillance can protect your privacy and invade your privacy.

Question 61

Data mining is the use of algorithms to search a digital database to answer questions.

Question 62

Data mining is a surveillance tool used to make digital systems more secure, but also can be used to censor.

Question 63

Surveillance is monitoring and recording of individuals and groups by large organizations such as government or businesses.

Question 64

Sousveillance occurs when average people monitor and record the activity of the world around them, including more powerful individuals and organizations.

Question 65

Digital technology makes surveillance and sousveillance easier

Question 66

Sousveillance is always good, because it protects individuals.

Question 67

Digital surveillance and sousveillance raise questions of personal freedom.

Question 68

Digital communication technology makes it easier for more people to create communities and become involved.

Question 69

Digital communities can be more specialized than communities in physical reality, focusing on the specific needs or interests of its members.

Question 70

Digital communication technology offers citizens new ways to exercise their civic freedom.

Question 71

Digital technology offers governments new forms of surveillance.

Question 72

Some governments have used digital surveillance censor or limit the political participation of its citizens.

Question 73

If current trends continue, digital political participation will replace traditional methods of political communication and organization.

Question 74

Digital technology expands our understanding what is real and true beyond physical reality.

Question 75

Our use of digital technology influences how we think.

Question 76

The words "cyberspace," "virtual reality," and "between screens" offer different ways to think about digital reality.

Question 77

In digital communication, "truth" is the most important communication ethics issue.

Question 78

Issues of truthfulness are important in digital communication, because digital technology can filter out nonverbal cues that could trigger questions about the truthfulness of a digital message.

Question 79

The anonymity and asynchronous nature of digital communication can filter out nonverbal cues that could raise questions about deception.

Question 80

One form of deceptive digital communication are bots, software programs that simulate human communication, e.g. followers on social media or actual conversation.