Deck 7: Inernet & Social Media

Question 1

Upon release of the iPhone here in 2009,Apple had to agree to what country's rules on censorship to be allowed to enter the market?

A) China
B) India
C) North Korea
D) Russia

Answer 1

A
Apple,partnering with China Unicom,had to adhere to China's censorship rules with its devices and apps.

Question 2

Who believes net neutrality is a prerequisite for Internet freedom and ultimately as important as the First Amendment,according to Mackinnon?

A) Tim Wu
B) Rebiya Kadeer
C) Lawrence Lessig
D) Al Franken

Answer 2

D
According to Mackinnon,Al Franken,the Democratic senator from Minnesota,is among many who believe this.

Question 3

What concept describes the values or assumptions that become manifest in technological design?

A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology

Answer 3

B
Andrew Feenberg coined the term to describe the underlying values and norms that are reflected in technological design.

Question 4

According to whom does legislation not anticipate innovation?

A) Tim Wu
B) Rebiya Kadeer
C) Lawrence Lessig
D) Al Franken

Question 5

What science-fiction film featured an artificially intelligent supercomputer named HAL that malfunctions?

A) The Matrix
B) Star Trek
C) Inception
D) 2001: A Space Odyssey

Question 6

Which Columbia professor states that technologies go through a cycle where they are first revolutionary,then locked down by monopolists?

A) Tom Wolfrom
B) Tim Wu
C) George Bush
D) Al Franken

Question 7

Which publication in 2010 criticized purists for failing to handle the issue of lack of competition among Internet providers?

A) The Economist
B) The Atlantic
C) Foreign Policy
D) The Wall Street Journal

Question 8

What process calculates the preferences of a group of people that is used to make recommendations to target individuals?

A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology

Question 9

What is the notion that science and technology have a symbiotic relationship,each one helping the other,while social values shape the precise forms that technological artifacts take?

A) Collaborative filtering
B) The Technical Code
C) The Technical Design
D) Social Construction of Technology

Question 10

Enhanced agency is also evident in the functionality and philosophy of:

A) Web 2.0
B) Social media
C) Search engine optimization
D) HTML programming

Question 11

Which Italian humanist worried that the printing press would make intellectuals lazy and less studious?

A) Hieronimo Squarciafico
B) Leonardo Di Vinci
C) Michelangelo
D) Galileo Galilei

Question 12

Which two German magazines' apps did Apple censor in 2010 because of displays of nudity?

A) Bidlt and Der Spiegel
B) Der Spiegel and Stern
C) Bildt and Stern
D) Stern and Focus

Question 13

Maryanne Wolf argues deep reading is indistinguishable from:

A) Intellectual conversation
B) Deep thinking
C) Deep study
D) Internet research

Question 14

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires was written by which Columbia University professor?

A) Tim Wu
B) Rebiya Kadeer
C) Lawrence Lessig
D) Al Franken

Question 15

What alternative to iOS can be run on several platforms,unlike iOS's restriction to Apple devices?

A) Google's Android
B) Sony's Ericsson
C) Microsoft's Windows Mobile
D) Mozilla's Ubuntu

Question 16

How does Lessig describe the "code" of the Internet that makes it open to control by various forces?

A) Malleable
B) Sustainable
C) Stagnant
D) Comprehensible

Question 17

Al Franken feels what concept is a prerequisite to Internet freedom?

A) Wireless Internet technology
B) Net neutrality
C) Free Internet
D) Liberal democracy

Question 18

At a 2010 conference on net neutrality,what two bodies decided it was within a company's rights to interfere with Internet traffic so long as they inform consumers?

A) The British and French Parliaments
B) The OECD and European Parliament
C) European Parliament and European Commission
D) The European Union and the European Parliament

Question 19

Flanigan states that the Internet's end-to-end structure is well-suited for:

A) Incubation
B) Infrastructure
C) Isolation
D) Innovation

Question 20

According to Bijker and Law,current and alternative forms of what are consequential in their designs?

A) Economies
B) Social values
C) Technologies
D) Social practices