STSC 160 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

STSC 160 Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Gutenberg Myth - Correct Answer ️️ -Printing press (and other major technological developments) don't actually lead to immediate transformations like everyone thinks Change instead occurs much more slowly due to inaccessibility of paper and high rates of illiteracy Technological determinism - Correct Answer ️️ -the concept that technology itself can determine history. Technology is inevitable and once it begins there is no stopping it. *the premise of this course is anti-technological determinism* There is a lot of social work and processes, and political processes had to go along with the invention of new technologies Printing press - Correct Answer ️️ -Freed information from elite control and allowed more access to more information to more people; Democratized and modernized knowledge, and with it, Europe Information overload - Correct Answer ️️ -Information does not stand alone, led to the invention of information management processes in order to maintain information European expansionism - Correct Answer ️️ -; encounters with new worlds, species, and new observations "Voyages of Discovery" Proliferation of print and books among "learned society" Information management - Correct Answer ️️ -What we know is based on how info is managed, ordered and circulated Algorithms of oppression - Correct Answer ️️ -how search engines reinforce racism Severo Bonini () - Correct Answer ️️ -Beneditine monk; italian composer; Published books on music (probably the importance) European Expansionist "Voyages of Discovery" - Correct Answer ️️ -included an effort to organize and catalog different specimens of plants, animals, and people in colonies such as India Rediscovery of Ancient Texts - Correct Answer ️️ -goes hand in hand with information overload and information management, this was an information management process that was able to determine what texts have been lost as a result of analyzing the reference pages of ancient texts. The realization that texts could be lost made Europe much more careful about keeping track of information. Victor Hugo's "This will replace that" - Correct Answer ️️ -printing will destroy architecture because the book of stone which is solid and enduring, is still less solid and enduring than the book of paper Practices of Information Management - Correct Answer ️️ -Textual Locators - page numbers, breaking into sections, numbering passages Censorship - a means by which different authority makers seek to control the movement of information - affronts to the Church, faulty printing, false attribution Note-Taking - production of books with huge margins - an expensive practice that is done so that people can take notes in the margins Indexes Encyclopedia/Reference books Forts - Correct Answer ️️ -the essence of the kingdom, acted as defensive infrastructures that are built in strategic places - at the same time in India they are also viewed as houses of knowledge, wealth, and power They were also viewed as houses of knowledge, wealth, and power - at the heart of philosophies of indian statehood Every fort across the Indian kingdom was staffed with astronomers, scr