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UNIT 7: TECHNOLOGY
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- 1Since the creation of technology, what has become a new form of currency?Data. By using new technologies, users are giving away their personal information which is heavily relied on by service providers to customize user experience and compete for user attention.
- 2What is a growing concern about new technologies which have become essential to day to day life?They are at risk of being used to manipulate and misinform, undermining Canadian values and institutions and threatening individual privacy and safety
- 3Why is achieving barrier-free access to communications services importantBecause communications technologies are becoming an essential part of Canadian society. This is why many policy recommendations argue that having access to some kind of communication technology should be a human right.
- 4How can affordability of telecommunications services be ensured for all canadians?Policy change. Connectivity/Access (internet, tech) and Digital Literacy (capability).
CRTC has responded to concerns by order the creation of cheaper data plans and cheaper tv packages. - 5What affects affordability of telecommunications technology?social class, citizenship status, age, gender, race, disability (ex. blindness) .
- 6What is the Digital Divide?The gap between people who do have access to the internet and those who don't, who are therefore unable to participate socially and economically with an Internet driven society.
- 7What are aspects of Digital and media literacy?- ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create content in a
variety of forms
- skills to contribute to competitive and innovative society and economy
- awareness of the risks associated with online activities - 8What does the organization MediaSmarts do?conducts research and creates learning tools to help Canadian children gain digital literacy skills and critical thinking.
- 9Why is the government currently concerned with the lack of trust Canadians have with the digital environment>Lack of trust could cause users to seek disconnection and a outcry for reform which will stifle values and potential innovation.
This trust can be built by implementing policy that ensures Canadians that they will be protected (privacy, autonomy). - 10What makes imposing privacy policy on communications difficult?Personal information is important to how communications services operate successfully
- 11What is Big Data and why is it important to in communications?Big data is collected not just from individuals but from everything that is connected to the network.
This Big data is used to understand consumer behavior and target users, increasing revenue directly through product and service sales, and indirectly through advertising sales - 12What is Technological Utopianism vs Technological Dystopianism?Technological Utopianism: Technology as instrumental means to solve human problems, advance society
Technological Dystopianism: Technology is adopted or developed without adequate consideration of significant negative effects - 13What is cultural determinism?Human culture determines what technology is developed, how technology is used.
(Any tech-related problems were introduced by humans and thus reflect human standards, needs.etc)
(E.g.: We have always had a desire for more information, more efficiently, and current tech simply has addressed this need the same way the invention of the printing press did.) - 14What is technological determinism?Technological development and use develop along the opportunities and logic of technological need, rather than human need.
(humans adapt to technology, technology determines us)
(E.g.: We learned writing, typing skills because this is what technology required, rather than this being our best/preferred way to communicate.)
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- Media and Journalism (MEDIA STRUCTURE) FlashCards sobre UNIT 7: TECHNOLOGY, criado por Bailey Reinhart em 11-12-2020.
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