CMI 3358 EXAMINATION 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Earliest Human Writing - ✔✔Sumeria: Cuneiform (baked clay), international graphic
medium of writing in the Ancient Middle East
Translation: "The king established the freedom of the citizens".
✔✔Paper (Egypt) - ✔✔Ancient Egyptians created the word from the papyrus reeds of
the Nile, East & Northeast Africa. Wrote in hieroglyphics (holy script)
✔✔Paper (China) - ✔✔Chinese invented it from wood pulp, produced world's earliest
dated, printed book, the Diamond Sutra. It was produced on the 11th of May 868 AD
✔✔Copyright - ✔✔Technology based
✔✔Counter-diffusion - ✔✔Movement of ideas and technologies from the periphery to
the Center
✔✔Diffusion of Innovations - ✔✔the process whereby a new product, service, or idea
spreads through a population; starts from the center and goes to the periphery of the
global system
✔✔International Telecommunication - ✔✔Transnational transmission, emission or
reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sound by wire, wireless networks, radio,
satellites, or other electromagnetic systems including the internet
✔✔Cyberspace - ✔✔electronic networks of interaction between individuals at different
computer terminals
✔✔International Telecommunications Union - ✔✔1844: When the Morse Telegraph was
invented, messages were translated at the borders & transmitted on the telegraph
network of the receiving country.
To solve problem of lack of interconnection, countries concluded several agreements to
interconnect networks and standardize equipment.
1865 founding of the International Telegraph Union (ITU)
1948, it became UN agency responsible for the planning and regulation of
telecommunication services world-wide. Sets the standards for analog & digital radio,
TV, satellite & Internet communications
✔✔ISO/JPEG - ✔✔Joint Photographic Experts Group, Computer graphics compression
standard/file format for still images & graphic files
,✔✔MPEG - ✔✔Moving Picture Experts Group
✔✔MPEG-1 - ✔✔digital still photography
✔✔MPEG-2 - ✔✔Used for DVDs
✔✔MPEG-3 - ✔✔MP3 digital audio compression & encoding
✔✔MPEG-4 AVC - ✔✔Advanced Video Compression) global video standard
✔✔MPEG-DASH - ✔✔Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer
Protocol, Internet video streaming format)
✔✔MPEG-UHD - ✔✔Ultra-High Definition TV. Video compression/encoding
✔✔Genesis 11 - ✔✔In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech....
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth... 9 That is why it was called
Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world
✔✔English - ✔✔British, Scottish, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, American, Indian,
African, international English. Slang, sports references, and cultural abbreviations don't
translate well into international English (Globish).
international language, a global language,, and language of science, technology, ICT &
intercultural communication driven by "international information elite."
global lingua franca, a 'contact language' between persons who share neither a
common native tongue nor a common (national) culture
The number of people using English for international communication is increasing
rapidly. Non-native English speakers outnumber native speakers.
World's worst communicators
A lot of native speakers are happy that English has become the world's global language.
They feel they don't have to spend time learning another language But they have to
learn to speak English internationally
✔✔Databases and knowledge capitalism - ✔✔Digitization and transfer of content from
real space to cyberspace for easy retrieval. For example: iCloud
✔✔Word processing - ✔✔Creation of original English and global language versions
, ✔✔Linguistic capitalism - ✔✔the internet search business model
✔✔French academy - ✔✔creates new words to match new English words: software,
hardware, chat, etc.
✔✔France and other countries - ✔✔resist the globalization of English: Movie/TV quotas
✔✔Great Firewall of China - ✔✔A system of "tools" used by the Communist Party to
tightly control the Internet in China
✔✔LexisNexis - ✔✔Commercial, computer searchable, digital databases pioneered in
1980s. Evolved from disk-based systems like CD-ROMs to interconnected Internet
servers, and so-called or "cloud" storage
✔✔The algorithmic search phenomenon - ✔✔the stock-in-trade of global information
and communication technology behemoths: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Apple Inc.
(Safari), Netscape, Opera, etc,
✔✔The algorithmic's secret - ✔✔perpetually changing, proprietary, algorithmic formulae
determine the kinds and hierarchies of knowledge and information made available to
users of different languages in different regions, and countries, around the world
✔✔Globalization and internationalization of popular culture - ✔✔led to cultural
appropriation and harmonization with loss of cultural diversity (Back to Babel)
✔✔Subtitling - ✔✔writing the translation of dialogue or commentary in the lower third of
the screen
✔✔Voice-over narration - ✔✔Oral translation of an original audio track leaving parts of
the original language intact to establish authenticity
✔✔Lipsynchronization dubbing - ✔✔Using actors to create a new language track of a
movie
✔✔Movement synchronization (in animated programs) - ✔✔matching the movement of
characters in a new language version of a movie
✔✔Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore - ✔✔Coined the term "global village" and they
envisioned instantaneous communication linking all peoples of the world with the help of
computers and satellites
✔✔Media & Technological determinism - ✔✔The very presence of telecommunications
and media technologies change the way of life of people in modern societies
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Earliest Human Writing - ✔✔Sumeria: Cuneiform (baked clay), international graphic
medium of writing in the Ancient Middle East
Translation: "The king established the freedom of the citizens".
✔✔Paper (Egypt) - ✔✔Ancient Egyptians created the word from the papyrus reeds of
the Nile, East & Northeast Africa. Wrote in hieroglyphics (holy script)
✔✔Paper (China) - ✔✔Chinese invented it from wood pulp, produced world's earliest
dated, printed book, the Diamond Sutra. It was produced on the 11th of May 868 AD
✔✔Copyright - ✔✔Technology based
✔✔Counter-diffusion - ✔✔Movement of ideas and technologies from the periphery to
the Center
✔✔Diffusion of Innovations - ✔✔the process whereby a new product, service, or idea
spreads through a population; starts from the center and goes to the periphery of the
global system
✔✔International Telecommunication - ✔✔Transnational transmission, emission or
reception of signs, signals, writing, images and sound by wire, wireless networks, radio,
satellites, or other electromagnetic systems including the internet
✔✔Cyberspace - ✔✔electronic networks of interaction between individuals at different
computer terminals
✔✔International Telecommunications Union - ✔✔1844: When the Morse Telegraph was
invented, messages were translated at the borders & transmitted on the telegraph
network of the receiving country.
To solve problem of lack of interconnection, countries concluded several agreements to
interconnect networks and standardize equipment.
1865 founding of the International Telegraph Union (ITU)
1948, it became UN agency responsible for the planning and regulation of
telecommunication services world-wide. Sets the standards for analog & digital radio,
TV, satellite & Internet communications
✔✔ISO/JPEG - ✔✔Joint Photographic Experts Group, Computer graphics compression
standard/file format for still images & graphic files
,✔✔MPEG - ✔✔Moving Picture Experts Group
✔✔MPEG-1 - ✔✔digital still photography
✔✔MPEG-2 - ✔✔Used for DVDs
✔✔MPEG-3 - ✔✔MP3 digital audio compression & encoding
✔✔MPEG-4 AVC - ✔✔Advanced Video Compression) global video standard
✔✔MPEG-DASH - ✔✔Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer
Protocol, Internet video streaming format)
✔✔MPEG-UHD - ✔✔Ultra-High Definition TV. Video compression/encoding
✔✔Genesis 11 - ✔✔In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech....
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth... 9 That is why it was called
Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world
✔✔English - ✔✔British, Scottish, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, American, Indian,
African, international English. Slang, sports references, and cultural abbreviations don't
translate well into international English (Globish).
international language, a global language,, and language of science, technology, ICT &
intercultural communication driven by "international information elite."
global lingua franca, a 'contact language' between persons who share neither a
common native tongue nor a common (national) culture
The number of people using English for international communication is increasing
rapidly. Non-native English speakers outnumber native speakers.
World's worst communicators
A lot of native speakers are happy that English has become the world's global language.
They feel they don't have to spend time learning another language But they have to
learn to speak English internationally
✔✔Databases and knowledge capitalism - ✔✔Digitization and transfer of content from
real space to cyberspace for easy retrieval. For example: iCloud
✔✔Word processing - ✔✔Creation of original English and global language versions
, ✔✔Linguistic capitalism - ✔✔the internet search business model
✔✔French academy - ✔✔creates new words to match new English words: software,
hardware, chat, etc.
✔✔France and other countries - ✔✔resist the globalization of English: Movie/TV quotas
✔✔Great Firewall of China - ✔✔A system of "tools" used by the Communist Party to
tightly control the Internet in China
✔✔LexisNexis - ✔✔Commercial, computer searchable, digital databases pioneered in
1980s. Evolved from disk-based systems like CD-ROMs to interconnected Internet
servers, and so-called or "cloud" storage
✔✔The algorithmic search phenomenon - ✔✔the stock-in-trade of global information
and communication technology behemoths: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Apple Inc.
(Safari), Netscape, Opera, etc,
✔✔The algorithmic's secret - ✔✔perpetually changing, proprietary, algorithmic formulae
determine the kinds and hierarchies of knowledge and information made available to
users of different languages in different regions, and countries, around the world
✔✔Globalization and internationalization of popular culture - ✔✔led to cultural
appropriation and harmonization with loss of cultural diversity (Back to Babel)
✔✔Subtitling - ✔✔writing the translation of dialogue or commentary in the lower third of
the screen
✔✔Voice-over narration - ✔✔Oral translation of an original audio track leaving parts of
the original language intact to establish authenticity
✔✔Lipsynchronization dubbing - ✔✔Using actors to create a new language track of a
movie
✔✔Movement synchronization (in animated programs) - ✔✔matching the movement of
characters in a new language version of a movie
✔✔Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore - ✔✔Coined the term "global village" and they
envisioned instantaneous communication linking all peoples of the world with the help of
computers and satellites
✔✔Media & Technological determinism - ✔✔The very presence of telecommunications
and media technologies change the way of life of people in modern societies
