Information Organization and Interaction
Machine Ages
Web 1.0, 2.0, & 3.0
Design and UX
Theoretical Perspectives
100
The sequence "5, potato, #24CC12, unity" is an example of what form of information?
What is data?
100
This is the period in human development characterized by economic activity transferring from human endeavors to work performed by computer algorithms. 
What is the second machine age?
100

A vast, uncontrolled but standards-compliant network of computers  through the hardware of routers, hubs, edge switches, LANs, WANs, MANs and so on that is available almost anywhere in the world.

What is the internet?
100
A psychologist and author deeply concerned with human-computer interaction and the need for attractive interfaces.
Who is Don Norman?
100
This perspective suggests that technology shapes society to a greater extent than society shapes technology.
What is technological determinism?
200
Data about data is also known as this.
What is metadata?
200
Steam engines are considered to be one of the technical advances which propelled us into this.
What is the first machine age?
200

A collection of online “documents” on Internet servers worldwide.

What is the World Wide Web?
200
A law which suggests that networks become more valuable as more people or nodes are added to them.
What is Metcalfe's law?
200
When versions of a new technology begin to diminish and there is a sense of reaching agreement on what the technology is and is not.
What is closure?
300
If you have a taxonomy with additional rules about relationships between data, you have this.
What is an ontology?
300

Creative processes involving human ingenuity, using tools, machines and knowledge to create and control the human-build world, the importance of systems, controls and information, and the practical, useful arts are all involved in this central concept for the course.

What is technology?
300
Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, he is frequently credited with inventing the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
300

Using this design methodology can help to avoid user frustration/dissatisfaction, increased costs, potential safety issues, and many incremental “irritations.”

What is user-centered design?
300
This model of technological development is refuted by SCOT's model of a "seamless web."
What is the linear model of technological development?
400
If you're working with an organization to create online information and you're working first to understand their strategies and user needs before defining the high level structure of the site, you've used this kind of information architectural method.
What is top-down information architecture?
400

A body of research that examines the social aspects of computerization.

What is social informatics?
400
This early prototype for the World Wide Web was introduced in an article in The Atlantic in 1945, but then never got built.
What is the Memex?
400
One of the original thinkers behind the Macintosh OS.
Who is Donald Norman?
400
If you have one of these, you have one of Rothschild's revolutions of technology.
What are tally sticks, writing, movable type, and electronic communications?
500
If I ask my users to create their own tagging system to describe information, I'm asking them to build this.
What is a folksonomy?
500

These include the difference between special skills and ordinary skills, as well as the “right” education.

What are challenges associated with the second machine age?
500

A generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called 'the intelligent Web,' such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies.

What is Web 3.0?
500
There are many ways to get trapped in one of these technical marvels; one way is to not try to interact with people or ideas outside of your usual social or news channels.
What is a filtration bubble?
500
A theoretical perspective centering on the relationship between technology and society that was originally defined by Bruno Latour.
What is Actor-Network theory?
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