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Amusing Ourselves to Death focuses on the consequences of the Internet and the Web as media. T/F

False

At the end of the introduction to Amusing Ourselves to Death, the author says the book is about the possibility that _____________ was right. Orwell not Huxley
Huxley not Orwell

Huxley not Orwell

According to Amusing Ourselves to Death our media are our metaphors. * T/F

True

According to Amusing Ourselves to Death our languages are our media. *

True

In the Kidney Transplant Algorithm reading it was argued that the main issues to be resolved were technical rather than ethical. T/F

False

Professor Hollan discussed the process of writing. He argued that all creative processes can be described as a reflective conversations with materials. T/F

True

The Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research reading mentioned which of the following?

Boundaries of the unit of analysis
Embodied cognition
Ethnography
Intelligent use of space
All of the above
Only three of the above

All of the above

Last week we discussed *2/2 representations in class. It was argued that a photograph is not a representation. T/F

False

Text is a type of representation. * T/F

True

In discussing representation *2/2 Professor Hollan argued that:

Representations allow us to abstract away from the concrete.
Representations are concrete forms themselves.
Both of the above
None of the above

Both of the above

One of the premises of Amusing *2/2 Ourselves to Death is that the form in which ideas are expressed affects what those
ideas will be. T/F

True

Postman argues that prior to the written word analytic thought was not possible. T/F

False

A surprising thing about the String Around the World problem discussed in class is that

1. When the world and the basketball are represented as squares rather than circles the result in terms of the lengths of string that needs to be added reverses.
2. When the world and the basketball are represented as spheres rather than circles the result in terms of the lengths of string that needs to be added reverses
3. Both of the above are true
4. None of the above are true

None of the above are true

When Professor Sayeki replicated Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation experiment in Japan he got a very different result. His conclusion was that the difference was a result of culture. T/F

False

In the Jonathan Haidt reading, Why The Past 10 years of American Life Have Been So Uniquely Stupid, he argues that
the story of Babel is the best metaphor he has found for what is happening to America.

1. He argues that red America and blue America are becoming like two different countries claiming the the same territory, with two different versions of the Constitution, economics and American history.
2. This metaphor applies between red and blue segments of the country.
3. This metaphor applies within red segments of the country.
4. This metaphor applies within blue segments of the country.
5. Haidt argues for all of the above
6. Haidt only argues for three of the above

Haidt argues for all of the above

Haidt argues Babel is not a story about tribalism. It's a story about the fragmentation of everything. T/F

True

Haidt ends his article by arguing that he expects Congress and the tech companies to save us.
T/F

False

Maneesh Agrawala designed a route visualization algorithm that was effective because

It didn't contain the inaccuracies of hand-drawn maps
It included some of the distortions of hand-drawn maps
Neither of the above are true

Neither of the above are true