CMN 170V Midterm exam questions with correct answers

CMN 170V Midterm exam questions with
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What is ICT? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Information and
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Communication Technology |\




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




How has communication evolved? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Smoke
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signals → Trumpet, horns (100 B.C.) → News paper
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(1502)→Chappe Telegraph (1794)→Electromagnetic Telegraph |\ |\ |\ |\



(1837)→Telephone (1876)→Radio (1918)→TV (1927)→Cellular |\ |\ |\ |\



(1973)


How has information storage evolved? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Wall-painting→Chinese paper (105 A.D.)→Printing Press |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



(1450)→Punch cards (1801)→Magnetic disk (1956)→CD-Rom |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



(1982)


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

,What three areas have converged into ICT? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Communication, information storage, and computation |\ |\ |\ |\




Who is Claude Shannon? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Father of the
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information and digital age |\ |\ |\




"Digital convergence" or "ICT convergence" on the bit refers to the
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fact that... - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Three previously separate
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technologies trajectories (Communication, Information Storage, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



and Computation) converges on the digital paradigm
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True or False. Time online has dramatically decreased. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔False. Time online has dramatically INCREASED.
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True or False. Technology is a tool and a means to an end. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔True. |\ |\




What is technology determinism? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Technology determines the outcome |\ |\ |\




Is this an example of technology determines or social construction
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of technology? Example: internet implies freedom and democracy,
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the internet is inherently good, or, technology implies a
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informational dictatorship, total control, surveillance, internet is |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



inherently bad - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Technology determinism
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Is this an example of technology determinism or social
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construction of technology? |\ |\ |\

, Example: "The internet increases productivity" - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Technology determinism |\ |\




What is social construction of technology? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔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
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of technology?
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Example: "The internet can be used in a way to increase
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productivity" - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Social constructivism |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




What is the Cube Framework? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Frame of
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reference that enables us to sort out the intricate relationships
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between information and communication tech. and development
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What does the Cube Framework focus on? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔-interdependency among technology |\ |\




-policy interventions|\




-socioeconomic sectors |\




What are the horizontal layers of the Cube Framework? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-Infrastructure: tangible like hardware, computers,
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mobile phones, cables|\ |\ |\




-Generic services: software, apps, email services, social networks
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-Capabilities, skills and culture: ability to use it |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\