CA 346 midterm

CA 346 midterm Test with questions and
answers.

tools of the mind - (correct answer) - -tools that support our mental powers
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-they help us understand the world around us
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-help us find and classify information
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-tools that help us articulate and formulate ideas
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-shaping personal identity gf gf




-building relationships gf




-carr

the memex - (correct answer) - -comes from the reading As we may think by vannevar bush
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-bush was an engineer, inventor, and science administration
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-he thought about science and how we can become better people through technology
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he thought the problem was that there is a growing mountain of research and it is impossible to keep tra
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ck of it all
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-the memex: desk like devise that is like a blueprint for computers and the internet
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bush tries to create a new way for people to rely on categorized and organized information from the past
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so they can efficiantley use it to guide future thinking
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a way to connect past knowledge to future endevaors in order to make for more efficiant living and adva
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ncements

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-What do you think Bush might say about Carr's idealized notion of "deep" or close, continuous reading?
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(Look for specific instances where Bush references books, text, reading, etc.) - (correct answer) - -
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, when bush discusses books and reading, he focuses on the human ability to categorize past thought and
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use it to advance future inventions. Because of this, i think bush would have been a supporter of "deep"
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reading rather than the superficial reading which occurs when the reader is distracted by the internet
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technilogical determinism - (correct answer) - - gf gf gf gf gf gfgf




sees technology as the cause of cultural and social change
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-usually looked at in a negative way
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instrumentalism - (correct answer) - -technologies are merely tools, what matters is how we use them
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-it is not the technology that creates social change, but the people that use those technologies
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-"guns don't kill people, people kill people"
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-opposite of determinism gf gf




social construction - (correct answer) - -
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technologies are in inherently social, an interplay between culture and technology
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-people build technologies and are constantly affected by the technologies that they build
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utopians/technophiles - (correct answer) - -technology as a process and as empowering gf gf gf gf gfgf gf gf gf gf gf gf




dystopians/technophobes - (correct answer) - -technology as limiting gf gf gf gf gfgf gf gf




-a detriment
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-new media rarely replaces old media
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the juggler's brain - (correct answer) - - nick carr
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-the internet is a "mind-altering technology"
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when we go online we enter an enviornment that promotes hurried and distracted thinking, and superfic
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ial learning
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-new reading habits are permanently affecting the structure of our brains
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-neuroplasticity: out brain reorganizes and changes over time gf gf gf gf gf gf gf




-multitasking and quick thinking is entirely negative gf gf gf gf gf gf




-deep thinking should be a default
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