CA250 Final Review 2025/2026 Exam
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Technological determinism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea that technology is
the primary driver in society
Marshall McLuhan - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A public intellectual from Canada who
rose to prominence in the 1950s; His work has been connected to ideas of
technological determinism, particularly with his famous notion that "The
medium is the message."
Media as mediation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔
"The medium is the message" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Content of any media is
just another medium, developed by McLuhan
"Extensions of Man" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Media extends our senses
Media's inseparability from society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔media is interlaced
with society
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,Codex Book - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ancient book that is the format for books in
the modern world
Effects of Literacy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Writing distances the speaker from the
listener, The development of "virtual" communication, where the speaker
didn't need to be present; Writing allows for built-upon knowledge; Training
and education become more important and "knowledge classes" become
more prominent
Effects of Print - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mass communication is born,
Democratization of knowledge, Development of journalism & advertising,
Rise of public education, Science flourishes, Knowledge becomes more of
a commodity, Prices increase for producers and decreases for consumers
Effects of Photography - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Challenged authority of written
and spoken word, used as identifying documents, provided a different way
of recording history, Religion and print, Martin Luther
Monopolies of Knowledge - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Idea that cultures with
technological advancements hold a monopoly on the amount of knowledge
spreading around the world
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,Time-Space compression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Space is compressed because
one is able to communicate with someone thousands of miles away from
you, Time is compressed because you can access people, info, and ideas
right away, whether it is present or past info
Media as Travel - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔can be in one place, but you can
communicate with someone in a different place
Mobile Privatization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An individual's attachment to a mobile
device which lead to a feeling of being at home while connected to the
device in a mobile setting
Mediated presence/ absence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔presence- be all alone but
feel connected
absence- be with people but not be connected
Reconsidering technology's role in society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔technology is
too distracting from the real world
Technological utopias and dystopias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dystopia- technology
causes fear and hate because biases against the media (harms youth,
"real communication", utopia- technology is always used to improve
communication
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, Projection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔divert a feeling from one source to another
Generational chauvinism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔we are the greatest generation
- bias against shift in media landscape after our generation
Elitism and paternalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔elitism-the attitude or behavior of
a person or group who regard themselves as belonging to an elite
paternalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- people in positions of authority restricting
the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in "best
interest"
Echo chamber - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Information is shared in a closed space
and only repeats, never encountering outside information
Media in service of power - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔media can be used to gain
power
Technological affordances - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔coined by Ian Hutchby as a
reaction against social constructivism. He used it to describe the material
constraints of a technology and their specific applications
Digital divide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inequality among internet access
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers |
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Technological determinism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea that technology is
the primary driver in society
Marshall McLuhan - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A public intellectual from Canada who
rose to prominence in the 1950s; His work has been connected to ideas of
technological determinism, particularly with his famous notion that "The
medium is the message."
Media as mediation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔
"The medium is the message" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Content of any media is
just another medium, developed by McLuhan
"Extensions of Man" - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Media extends our senses
Media's inseparability from society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔media is interlaced
with society
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,Codex Book - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ancient book that is the format for books in
the modern world
Effects of Literacy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Writing distances the speaker from the
listener, The development of "virtual" communication, where the speaker
didn't need to be present; Writing allows for built-upon knowledge; Training
and education become more important and "knowledge classes" become
more prominent
Effects of Print - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Mass communication is born,
Democratization of knowledge, Development of journalism & advertising,
Rise of public education, Science flourishes, Knowledge becomes more of
a commodity, Prices increase for producers and decreases for consumers
Effects of Photography - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Challenged authority of written
and spoken word, used as identifying documents, provided a different way
of recording history, Religion and print, Martin Luther
Monopolies of Knowledge - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Idea that cultures with
technological advancements hold a monopoly on the amount of knowledge
spreading around the world
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,Time-Space compression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Space is compressed because
one is able to communicate with someone thousands of miles away from
you, Time is compressed because you can access people, info, and ideas
right away, whether it is present or past info
Media as Travel - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔can be in one place, but you can
communicate with someone in a different place
Mobile Privatization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An individual's attachment to a mobile
device which lead to a feeling of being at home while connected to the
device in a mobile setting
Mediated presence/ absence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔presence- be all alone but
feel connected
absence- be with people but not be connected
Reconsidering technology's role in society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔technology is
too distracting from the real world
Technological utopias and dystopias - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dystopia- technology
causes fear and hate because biases against the media (harms youth,
"real communication", utopia- technology is always used to improve
communication
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, Projection - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔divert a feeling from one source to another
Generational chauvinism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔we are the greatest generation
- bias against shift in media landscape after our generation
Elitism and paternalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔elitism-the attitude or behavior of
a person or group who regard themselves as belonging to an elite
paternalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- people in positions of authority restricting
the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in "best
interest"
Echo chamber - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Information is shared in a closed space
and only repeats, never encountering outside information
Media in service of power - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔media can be used to gain
power
Technological affordances - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔coined by Ian Hutchby as a
reaction against social constructivism. He used it to describe the material
constraints of a technology and their specific applications
Digital divide - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inequality among internet access
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