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He signed into law legislation and money to create the Library of Congress, the largest, most comprehensive library in the world--and sold his personal book collection to kick-start the new library .
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
It is the separation of those who have access to technology and those who do not.
What is the digital divide?
100
If stacks of books are not gathering dust on bookstore shelves, it's probably because of this.
What is print on demand?
100
It might be a Nook, a Kindle, or an iPad.
What is an e-reader?
100
This is the stage of technological development when the visionaries and dreamers have not yet invented what they "see" in their minds.
What is the precursor stage?
200
In his book "Future Shock," Alvin Toffler warned that rapid computer and media technology changes might overwhelm people and cause this social upheaval.
What is information overload?
200
This stage of technology development is when a clear winner emerges in the market.
What is the maturity stage?
200
The idea of a book as we know it is changing. This is the name of a book when it is translated into a digital format that may then be read across a variety of computerized readers.
What is an e-book?
200
This program is designed to run cheaply, on alternative power, and to close the digital divide for children in developing countries.
What is OLPC..One Laptop Per Child?
200
If your teacher orders a text book with fewer chapters and no photos to lower the cost of the book to students she is engaging in __________.
What is text book customization?
300
To address the digital divide, his vision is to give laptops to children around the world.
Who is Nicholas Negroponte?
300
If you are buying a VCR player to look at your grandmother's collection of movies, you are purchasing technology that has entered which stage of technological development?
What is the antiquity stage?
300
This partnership between the Library of Congress and other national libraries throughout the world, seeks to create the largest online collection of documents in the world and offer them free of charge to anyone with Internet access.
What is the World Digital Library Project?
300
It's a place where you can check out books....but the books are all online.
What is a digital library?
300
The cable goes out in the middle of an important news broadcast. This would be a form of _______ as defined by the Shannon-Weaver communication model
What is noise?
400
His company launched the iPad in 2010 and it changed the way we consume all print--and all other--media.
Who was Steve Jobs?
400
This is a form of publishing that does not create a book until it has been ordered by the customer
What is print-on-demand?
400
This is the largest library in the world.
What is the Library of Congress?
400
You read a tweet about the Cowboys game from your favorite sports broadcaster and you tweet him back. In a mass communication model like the Shannon-Weaver, your tweet would be this.
What is feedback?
400
This stage of technological development follows the invention stage and is when format wars (such as that between DVD and Blu-ray) often occur.
What is the development stage?
500
The text says this inventor, although a visionary, is an example of someone who had many ideas that never made it out of the precursor stage of technological development.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
500
A television ad tries to convince you that you need an alarm system for your home. It shows young children asleep in their beds as someone attempts to break into the house. Advertisers could be appealing to one of Maslow's Hierarchy of Human needs in an attempt to sell you the alarm system. Which one?
What is the security need?
500
Vinyl records and Polaroid cameras are examples of media technologies that, only a few years ago, had entered the "antiquity" stage of technological development. Now we could say they have re-entered which stage of technological development?
What is the maturity stage?
500
Record players, Walkman CD players, and Betamax video players are all examples of products in the ________ stage of technological innovation.
What is the antiquity stage?
500
This term is defined as: communication platforms that allow the exchange of information between individuals and groups.
What is mass media?