CMN 170V Final Questions and Answers Graded A

CMN 170V Final Questions and Answers Graded A What are the characteristics of digitalization? -Digital footprint -Timeless Time -Death of Distance -Poly-directionality -Network structure -Network externalities -Economies of scale -Media richness selection -Exposure selection -Algorithmification: A.I What is the digital footprint? -Storage and computation convergence -Examples: Google location tracker, video of amazing mind reader who was able to find out private information about people through the internet, recording everything, What is timeless time? •The social practice that aims at negating sequence to install ourselves in perennial simultaneity and simultaneous ubiquity •Technology allows you to have a real time communication with someone like through a chat or asynchronous communication (like a forum post) •Timeless time refers to the fact that the combination of synchronous and asynchronous information processing allows to negate sequences What is the death of distance? •You can communicate with anyone around the world, distance is no longer a factor What is poly-directionality? -From one to one: telephone, letter -From one to many: radio, TV -From man to one: election, applause -From many to many: meetings What is network structure? •The Internet and World Wide Web are NOT the same, even though they are often used interchangeably •Social Network Analysis DOES NOT exclusively applies to online networks like Facebook. Social network analysis applies to all kinds of social networks, also offline, for example when you think about with whom to go to the movies •There is a small average path length In regards to network structure, who is the father of the world wide web? Tim Berners-Lee In regards to network structure, what is homophily? Love of the like, like friendship by race or political blogs In regards to network structure, what is network centrality? Who is in the center of the network? True or False. In regards to space of flows, what matters is the network space not the geographic space. True What are the three characteristics of digitalization that make up of space of flows? -Death of distance -Poly-directionality -Network structure What are network externalities? When the value of a product