What do we mean by the “digital divide”?.
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PART 1: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability using a few short sentences.
1. What do we mean by the “digital divide”? 2. What is one (1) of the causes of the divides described in “Without a Net”? Briefly describe. 3. In our discussions of copyright, I mentioned that some kinds of intellectual property are in the “public domain.” What do we mean by “public domain”? 4. In one of your readings for week 6, Burton (2015) talked about similarities in the ways we consume both information and other consumer products. She focused on 1) Authority, 2) Authenticity, 3) Location, 4) Freshness, 5) Quality, 6) Accessibility, 7) Scarcity and 8) Aesthetics. Choose one of these characteristics and describe how it applies to information. 5. Some college students experience “information overload.” Give an example of how information overload might affect a student’s ability to complete a class project. PART 2: Answer each of the following essay questions. Be clear and support your statements with evidence from the classes and readings. Be sure to cite your sources using APA style These responses should be in your own words. You should be able to answer each of these question in roughly 500 words. Essay Question 1: In week 2, I talked about the challenges of living in a complex information environment. Please respond to the following questions in your essay. 1. What do we mean by this complex information environment? 2. If a novice internet user looks for information on climate change, what problems might this complex information environment create? Essay Question 2: In week 4, we talked about “alternative facts”, “post-truth” and “fake news” all of which are used to describe certain kinds of information. Please respond to the following questions in your essay.
1. Describe the kinds of information that “alternative facts”, “post-truth” and “fake news” refer to. Give examples. 2. Describe the impact that these kinds of information can have on a free and democratic society. Sources that should be used are as followed (if necessary): (Week 2 sources)Badke, W. E. (2017). Infolit land: The authority crisis, trust, and information literacy. Online Searcher, 41(6), 57-59. Glaser, A. (2019, June 6). Bring back the golden age of broadcast regulation, especially for YouTube and Facebook. Slate. Retrieved from https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/youtube-facebook-hate-speech-regulation-how.html Herther, N. K. (2011). All the news that’s fit to post. Or is it? Searcher, 19(5), 20-28. (Week 3 sources)Hargittai, E., Neuman, W. R., and Curry, O. (2012). Taming the information tide: Perceptions of information overload in the American home. The Information Society, 28, 161-173. Horrigan, J. B. (2016, December 7). Information overload. Pew Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/12/07/information-overload/ (Week 4 sources)The Freethink Tank. (2018, July 17). Give truth a chance: Fake news and the post truth world. Retrieved from http://www.thefreethinktank.com/fake-news-post-truth/ Keane, J. (2018, March 22). Post-truth politics and why the antidote isn’t simply ‘fact-checking’ and truth. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.com/post-truth-politics-and-why-the-antidote-isnt-simply-fact-checking-and-truth-87364 (week 5 sources)Marshall, C. C., & Shipman, F. M. (2017). Who Owns the Social Web? Communications of the ACM, 60(5), 52-61. doi:10.1145/2996181 Victor, L. A. (2012). What’s the point with Pinterest? Intellectual Property Litigation, 24(1), 12-17. (week 6 sources)Burton, B. (2015). Managing information as a consumer product. Online Searcher, 39(4), 50-53. Foster, J., & Clough, P. (2018). Embedded, added, co-created: Revisiting the value of information in an age of data. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 69(5), 744-748. (week 7 sources)Eastin, M. S., Cicchirillo, V., & Mabry, A. (2015). Extending the digital divide conversation: Examining the knowledge gap through media expectancies. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 59(3), 416-437. doi:10.1080/08838151.2015.1054994 Howell C. and West, D.M. (2016, November 7). The internet as a human right. Brookings. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/11/07/the-internet-as-a-human-right/ (week 8 sources)Castells, M. (2014, September 8). The impact of the internet on society: A global perspective. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved from https://www.technologyreview.com/s/530566/the-impact-of-the-internet-on-society-a-global-perspective/ (Castells’ full report is listed in the recommended reading below.) Thorson, E. (2016). Belief echoes: the persistent effects of corrected misinformation. Political Communication, 33(3), 460-480. Walsh, D and Rashwan, N. (2019, Sept. 6). ‘We’re at War’: A covert social media campaign boosts military rulers. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/world/middleeast/sudan-social-media.html