Tutorial_Quiz_2 Answers

1. What are pull technologies?

They are the technologies that pull information instead of pushing it at consumers. For example: Internet.

2. Define Info-State:

Or Digital Divide; it means the difference between info-use and info-density.

3. What does Info-use means?

It means use of information.
It also refers to the intensity of consumption of ICTs (Information, Communication, and Technology)

4. What does online content divide mean?

It means the difference in on-line content in terms of language. For example, 40% of online content is in English.

5. What does Joseph Nye’ notion “complex interdependence”?

i. States find it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to 'stand alone' in the international system
ii. They find military means of asserting their power increasingly ineffective, and are thus constantly seeking to develop other ways of regulating activity in the international sphere
iii. Normal mechanisms for regulating conduct are little more than loose networks of organizations, based on agreements, treaties, conferences, and summits involving public and private actors

6. Explain the complex nature of poverty in the information age.

Poverty nowadays refers to the lack of access and use of information, communication, and technology.
Poor people are those who do not speak more than two, three languages.
Poverty means lack of access to knowledge

7. Indentify three specialized agencies of the United Nations.

-ITU
-UNESCO
-WIPO

8. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was established on the ethos of perceiving telecommunications as a private business. Explain.

It means that ITU aimed at making ICTs accessible for all people; it is a public utility.

9. Define regime theory.

Rules, norms, principles and decision-making procedures about which actor expectations converge into an area issue.
It is also called: “Global Governance System”

10. Explain the “Shifts in Global Communication Politics”. Explain.

• Over the last decade, the field of global communication politics has witnessed profound transformation
• The international governance system for communication operated during the last 100 years to coordinate national policies that were independently shaped by sovereign state
• Today’s global governance system determines supranationally the space that national governments have for independent policy making
• Global communication politics is defined by trade and market standard and ever less by political considerations