Final Review Flashcards
What day was the internet invented?
October 29, 1969
According to Flew and Smith, what is social production?
Transformation of Web 2.0 where users create content with a platform created by a company.
According to the video Facebook Foolies, what’s the primary product Facebook creates?
Audiences (users of Facebook)
What are the four aspects of the intelligence framework?
- Capacity to communicate
- Capacity for self-reflection
- Capacity for abstraction
- Capacity for analysis (reasoning)
What is the single defining feature of the knowledge economy?
Knowledge has become a commodity.
What are four forms of intellectual property?
- Patents
- Trademark
- Copyright
- Licensing
What are the two ways media is regulated?
Content is regulated and carriage is regulated
What is CanCon
Canadian Content
What is “forbearance”?
Making a conscious policy option not to regulate in a given area.
What are the issues at play in the Goldsmith and Wu reading?
Yahoo was displaying websites that allowed users bid on Nazi paraphernalia (which is illegal in France). Yahoo believed the internet could not be regulated but ruled in favour of French government. France government seized Yahoo assets when they ignored decision.
According to Flew and Smith, what are the three factors that have led to the development of the “knowledge economy”?
- Prevalence of ICTs
- Globalization
- Increasing value of information.
What is our natural tendency to use the internet as?
A tool of amusement (social, gaming) and convenience
According to Flew and Smith, what are the three problems related to information and our attempt to access it?
- Misinformation (Information that is wrong)
- Disinformation (Information that is intentionally wrong)
- Excess (having too much information available at our finger tips)
What is the purpose of intellectual property protections?
To protect the value of information, in a knowledge economy marketplace.
What are the four ways intellectual property differ from traditional commodities?
- In-consumable
- Untransferable
- Indivisible
- Accumulative