University of Ontario Institute of Technology

COMM 1050U

uNIT 4 : THE NEW ART OF TECHNOLOGY

Q1: According to Nicholas Carr, because of the Net's emphasis on immediacy and efficiency, we users of the Net risk becoming this.

a      Technological Students.

a      Mere information decoders.

a      Students in a technological sense.

b     Students of computers.

c      Students of technology.

Q2: According to Stephan Marche, Facebook (and by implication other social media platforms) has revealed this about human nature.

a      That we can only really know someone when we are friends with them on Facebook.

a      That instant and total connection is no salvations, no ticket to a happier, better world or a more liberated version of humanity.

1. That the human condition is crappy.
2. That we thrive best when we are alone.

Q3: According to Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, the following is one of the big psychological lessons that can be learned from the "Tinder effect":

a      Tinder does not emulate dating in the real world.

a      Tinder does emulate dating in the real world.

1. Physical eligibility exceed digital eligibility.
2. Tinder does not serve any social or evolutionary needs. c        None of these answers.

Q4: According to Jeffery Rosen, this is one of the potential problems with new social technologies.

a      They are forcing us to disclose all of our information to other people.

a      They are forcing us to merge identities that used to be separate.

a      They are making us unable to think clearly. b        All of these answers.

c      None of these answers.

Q5: According to Sherry Turkle, the new communications technologies are all about this:

a      Making relationships better.

a      Control

a      Bringing together different ideas. b        Knowledge.

c      Comprehension.

Q6: According to Nicholas Carr's metaphor in article, the effect of the internet on reading is sucj that whereas he once was a scuba diver in a sea of words, now he is this.

a      Seaweed washed onto the shore of a sea of words.

a      A jet skier on a sea of words.

1. A wordsmith on a sea of jets.
2. A sea of words without a shore in sight. c        Skippin.

Q7: According to the article by Rosen, 70% of U.S. recruiters reported that they have rejected candidates for employment because of this:

a      Because information found online (including photos, discussion board conversations, and membership in controversial groups)

a      Because of bad behaviour while working for other employers, which they found out about online b     Because candidates for employment assumed they should be able to play video games at work

3. Because of stupid Twitter Handles
4. Because candidates for employment assumed that they should be able to speak on their cell phones while at work

Q8: According to Turkle, with technology we sacrifice this for mere connection:

a    Conjunction b     Connection c Truth

a    Conversation

a    All of these answers

Q9: According to Jared Diamond, the following is one of the reasons why agriculture is one of the worst mistakes in the history of the human species:

a      It made technological progress possible and Diamond sees technological progress as a negative thing b     It made people mean-spirited

a      This was the origin of major class distinctions

a      It made everyone equal

b     None of these answers

Q10: According to this view, technology creates new social/political/cultural systems which it then structures and controls

1. Objectification

a     Substantivism

a Emboism

2. None of these answers c All of these answers