Information Age Quiz
Cultural imperialism
A form of domination that involves privileging one culture over a less powerful one or imposing cultural practices of a dominant culture into other cultures, often culminating in the adoption of cultural practices of the imperial power.
World Wide Web
A huge web of interlinked documents, images, and multimedia accessible over the Internet by a system of hypertext links and URLs. Extra: When ARPANET was being decommissioned, Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, in Switzerland, created this system intended to "connect hypertext with the Internet and personal computers, thereby having a single information network to help CERN physics share all the computer stored information at the laboratory."
Post industrial society
A service-oriented information society.
Protocols
A set of rules controlling the transfer of data between computers. Common internet protocols include HTTP, FTP, Telnet, POP3, and IMAP.
Web browser
A software application that enables users to display and interact with content located on the World Wide Web. Extra: CERN was the first to develop one but a National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) team led by Marc Andreesen developed Mosiac.
Knowledge industry
A term designed to separate information-based jobs to industrial ones. It's divided in 52 sectors including publishing, research, broadcasting, and even religion.
Digital Age
A term that refers to the period from approximately 1980 to present day. Characterized by the shift from analog electronic technologies to digital technology.
Sakawa
A term used to describe the scamming culture in Ghana. It also describes the religious practices such as visiting rituals to get good luck for a scam.
The Information Age
A time charecterized by he proliferation of indormation and the ability to transfer, share, and instantly access information that previously would have been difficult to find.
Internet
A worldwide connection of computers and subnetworks exchanging data using wires, cables, and radio links.
IFLA
An information leadership colloquium on information literacy held in Alexandria, Egypt. It recognized information literacy as the "core of lifelong learning" and as a "basic human right in the digital world."
Difference between digital and analog
Analog has many different mediums of information like the grooves on a disk or a tape. Meanwhile digital information is universal in that it is all stored in 0's and 1's.
Physical networks for data
Broadband cable networks, Integrated Switched Digital Networks, satellites, and wireless telephony.
Global digital divide
Disparities in technology access and use between counties or global regions.
Netscape
Eventually Andreesen left and created Netscape for more commercial uses.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol. A network protocol that allows a FTP client to connect to a FTP server to exchange or manipulate files on that server.
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol. A protocol for retrieving interlinked resources that led to the establishment of the World Wide Web.
Information overload
Inability to absorb, manipulate, evaluate and retain information due to cognitive overstimulation. People are forced to adapt to a new life pace and master more things in a shorter amount of time. People are being bombarded with information faster than they can understand it.
First message sent on the internet
On October 29, 1969, the first message was sent over ARPANET from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institution. It prompted UCLA to 'login in' but it crashed after they 'lo'
Search engine
Originally people could not use the internet well without knowing exact URL's; however, search engines made it possible to search for specific topics on the web.
Cultural hybridity
Refers to cultural forms and practices that result from interactions between two or more different cultures.
Digital Divide
Refers to unequal access to physical ICTs, such as computers, mobile phones, and Internet access, as well as to imbalances in education and experience needed to develop information and technology skills.
Analog
Systems that translate a signal into continuously variable, measurable, physical quantities, such as length, width, voltage, or pressure in order to repeat a certain process. (For example, transforming sounds into certain interpretable voltages). Examples of this were like grooves on a vinyl record or a tape recorder.
Critical perspective of the Information Age
That by writers saying that the information age was coming, they created a self-fulfilling prophecy. They also argue that the Information Age is nothing new, it is just as comparable to the printing press and it is only caused by the increase of communication and research.
ARPANET
The Internet's predecessor created by the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It was intended to overcome problems associated with remotely running programs on the computer. By the end of the year, four host computers connected 1000 researchers and this grew to 23 computers. Although it was intended for sending large files, it eventually adopted an electronic mail program. However, with increasing users, the Defense Communications Agency increased security, limited access and split the network into MILNET (for the military network), and the original network was used to connect researches.
Information literacy
The ability to define an information need and to effectively and efficiently find, evaluate, and use information ethically and responsibly.
American Library Association
The association that formed the Presidential Committee on Information Literacy which consisted of seven national leaders from the education field and six from the field of librarianship. They reported on the relationship between information literacy and information overload.
Digital media process
The conversion of data into bits.
Mosiac
The first web browser designed to run on most personal computers. Distributed for free on the Internet and more than 40,000 copies were sold in the first month. By spring 1994, millions of copies were being used.
"The Right to be Forgotten"
The idea that people should be able to choose if they want something to be deleted off of the internet that relates to them.
Future shock
The inability to keep up with the greatly accelerated rate of change in society.
Internet vs World Wide Web
The internet is the physical networking infrastructure that allows multiple computers to communicate through the use of packets distributed to and from senders and receivers. The World Wide Web is a protocol that uses HTTP to allow applications to find and access resources stored on internet connected computers. The Internet existed before the World Wide Web and the World Wide Web requires the Internet as a transport mechanism.
Paul Zurkowski
The man who thought of the term information literacy.
Homogenization
The process of blending or erasing differences to make something uniform in composition
Heterogenization
The process of breaking up into different elements or dissimilar parts.
Bit
The smallest unit of digital information that is either a 0 or a 1.
Purpose of digital information
To easily store videos, images, text, or music in a universal code.
UNESCO purpose in the information age
To foster information and media literate societies by encouraging the development of national information and media literacy policies, including education. They formed the National Forum of Information Literacy and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).
UN Millenium Declaration
United Nations declaration signed in September 200 consisting of eight goals and 21 targets that 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 organizations have agreed to achieve by 2015. The goals are to - Eradicate poverty and hunger - Achieve universal primary education - Promote gender equality and empowering women - Reducing child mortality - Improving maternal health - Combatting HIV, malaria, and other disease - Ensuring environmental sustainability - Developing a global partnership for development
Backbone
Used to describe the part of a network that connects other networks together. The Internet's backbone consists of high-capacity, high-speed lines that can extend over great distances.
Byte
When 0's or 1's are combined into a sequence that carries information.
First website on the World Wide Web
info.cern.ch was created online on August 6, 1991.
