Final Review

Question 1

What day was the internet invented?

Answer 1

October 29, 1969

Question 2

According to Flew and Smith, what is social production?

Answer 2

Transformation of Web 2.0 where users create content with a platform created by a company.

Question 3

According to the video Facebook Foolies, what’s the primary product Facebook creates?

Answer 3

Audiences (users of Facebook)

Question 4

What are the four aspects of the intelligence framework?

Answer 4

1. Capacity to communicate
2. Capacity for self-reflection
3. Capacity for abstraction
4. Capacity for analysis (reasoning)

Question 5

What is the single defining feature of the knowledge economy?

Answer 5

Knowledge has become a commodity.

Question 6

What are four forms of intellectual property?

Answer 6

1. Patents
2. Trademark
3. Copyright
4. Licensing

Question 7

What are the two ways media is regulated?

Answer 7

Content is regulated and carriage is regulated

Question 8

What is CanCon

Answer 8

Canadian Content

Question 9

What is “forbearance”?

Answer 9

Making a conscious policy option not to regulate in a given area.

Question 10

What are the issues at play in the Goldsmith and Wu reading?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

According to Flew and Smith, what are the three factors that have led to the development of the “knowledge economy”?

Answer 11

1. Prevalence of ICTs
2. Globalization
3. Increasing value of information.

Question 12

What is our natural tendency to use the internet as?

Answer 12

A tool of amusement (social, gaming) and convenience

Question 13

According to Flew and Smith, what are the three problems related to information and our attempt to access it?

Answer 13

1. Misinformation (Information that is wrong)
2. Disinformation (Information that is intentionally wrong)
3. Excess (having too much information available at our finger tips)

Question 14

What is the purpose of intellectual property protections?

Answer 14

To protect the value of information, in a knowledge economy marketplace.

Question 15

What are the four ways intellectual property differ from traditional commodities?

Answer 15

1. In-consumable
2. Untransferable
3. Indivisible
4. Accumulative