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People & Years
Analog & Digital
Surveillance, Promiscuous machines
web 2.0
Information Society
100
Who invented 'The Difference Engine'?
Who are Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage; early 1800s (1823-1849)
100
This thesis by Claude Shannon described using Boolean (symbolic) logic to the operation of electromechanical relays (digital logic)
What is 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
100
She was the first to communicate the idea of 'Promiscuous Machines'
Who is Wendy Chun
100
Name two (2) characteristics of web 2.0
What is participation-publishing; user-generated content; services not products; lots of free content plus ads
100
List Frank Webster's criteria of Information Society
What is technological; economic; occupational; spatial; cultural
200
AND or NOT
Who is George Boole, lived in 1815-1864
200
This is the short form for 'binary digit' and has the values of 0, 1.
What is bit
200
Surveillance, but of your data
What is dataveillance
200
What came before Web 2.0?
What is web 1.0
200
Who came up with the term 'psychopathology of information overload'?
Who is Geert Lovink
300
Who wrote 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' in 1948?
Who is Claude Shannon, lived 1916-2001
300
What is an example of an Information Communication Technology?
What is an iPhone, or computer, or landline telephone
300
The computational process of discovering patterns in large sets of data
What is data mining
300
What is the term used to describe when thousands of e-businesses crashed in the early 2000s?
What is 'boom & bust' or dot.com boom, dot.com bubble
300
He wrote 'The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society' in 1973
Who is Daniel Bell
400
A conceptual revolution is a radical change in the way human beings understand themselves and their place in the universe. Who coined the term that we are in the 4th revolution?
Who is Luciano Floridi, (today)
400
The term that Claude Shannon is talking about: "Information is closely associated with uncertainty..."
What is entropy
400
Give the definition of when people know they are being watched but act as if they do not
What is 'inverse panopticon'
400
What were the 3 types of new wave of e-businesses to survive and thrive after the boom & bust of the early 2000s?
What is social networks, music & media downloads, and search functions (Google)
400
This term describes the decline of manufacturing jobs and the rise of the service sector
What is services vs goods
500
Who said "raw data" is an oxymoron?
Who is Lisa Gitelman
500
A logic gate has two or more of these types of circuits that amplify and switch electronic signals
What is transistor
500
Software _________ : The illusion of safety, allowing us to be seduced and provide data without realizing what's going on, thus keeping things in line
What is ideology
500
This is an attempt to start a movement to pay Facebook users for their activity on the social network (related to 'net-work')
What is Wages for Facebook
500
A term associate with Frank Webster's spatial criterion, it describes how people associate their citizenship more with the online world than their native country
What is cybercitizenship