CMN Midterm Exam Prep 2025: 100+ Questions & Answers | Communication Studies

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CMN MIDTERM EXAM PREP QUESTIONS WITH
100% SOLVED ANSWERS!!



What is ICT? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Information and
Communication Technology


True or False. The invention of the telephone was not the
world's first "tele-communication" or "distance
communication" device, smoke signals can and were
used for distance communication - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
True


How has communication evolved? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Smoke signals → Trumpet, horns (100 B.C.) → News
paper (1502)→Chappe Telegraph
(1794)→Electromagnetic Telegraph (1837)→Telephone
(1876)→Radio (1918)→TV (1927)→Cellular (1973)


How has information storage evolved? - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ Wall-painting→Chinese paper (105
A.D.)→Printing Press (1450)→Punch cards
(1801)→Magnetic disk (1956)→CD-Rom (1982)

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How has computation evolved? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Abacus calculator → Mech. Calculator (1500
A.D.)→Relay (1935)→Vacuum tube (1942)→
Transistor(1959) → Microprocessor(1973) → Laptop
(1975) → Mac (1981)


What three areas have converged into ICT? -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ Communication, information
storage, and computation


Who is Claude Shannon? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Father
of the information and digital age


"Digital convergence" or "ICT convergence" on the bit
refers to the fact that... - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Three
previously separate technologies trajectories
(Communication, Information Storage, and Computation)
converges on the digital paradigm


True or False. Time online has dramatically decreased. -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ False. Time online has
dramatically INCREASED.

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True or False. Technology is a tool and a means to an
end. - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ True.


What is technology determinism? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Technology determines the outcome


Is this an example of technology determines or social
construction of technology? Example: internet implies
freedom and democracy, the internet is inherently good,
or, technology implies a informational dictatorship, total
control, surveillance, internet is inherently bad -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ Technology determinism


Is this an example of technology determinism or social
construction of technology?
Example: "The internet increases productivity" -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ Technology determinism


What is social construction of technology? - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ technology has different outcomes and they
have to be socially constructed, technology is a tool like
a hammer

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Is this an example of technology determines or social
construction of technology?
Example: "The internet can be used in a way to increase
productivity" - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Social constructivism


What is the Cube Framework? - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Frame of reference that enables us to sort out the
intricate relationships between information and
communication tech. and development


What does the Cube Framework focus on? - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ -interdependency among technology
-policy interventions
-socioeconomic sectors


What are the horizontal layers of the Cube Framework?
- .....ANSWER ...✔✔ -Infrastructure: tangible like
hardware, computers, mobile phones, cables
-Generic services: software, apps, email services, social
networks
-Capabilities, skills and culture: ability to use it