English 13 (Week 4)

Crawford writes, "Pejorative terms such as 'lurking' have failed to capture much detail about the experience of presence online."

What is the meaning of "pejorative"?

• Confusing

• Harmful

• Expressing disapproval

• Expressing agreement

Crawford discusses three modes on online listening: background listening, reciprocal listening, and ________.

Which social media platform does the article use as a case study for how these three modes are experienced and performed?

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

• Reddit

From the text: "Crary has noted the emergence of pathologies of attention in the nineteenth century..."

The word "pathology" is defined as "the science of the cause and effects of..."

• Health

• Ignorance

• Experience

• Diseases

Ian Bogost wrote "ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think," while Ted Chiang wrote "ChatGPT Is A Blurry JPEG Of The Web."

Who wrote this: "I did not actually write the previous three paragraphs. A friend sent them to me as screenshots from his session with ChatGPT."

• Bogost

• Chiang

Who wrote this?

"The fact that Xerox photocopiers use a lossy compression format instead of a lossless one isn’t, in itself, a problem. The problem is that the photocopiers were degrading the image in a subtle way."

• Bogost

• Chiang

Who wrote this?

"A useful criterion for gauging a large language model’s quality might be the willingness of a company to use the text that it generates as training material for a new model."

• Bogost

• Chiang

Bogost wrote, "GPT and other large language models are aesthetic

instruments rather than epistemological ones."

The term "epistemology" is defined as "the study of the nature, origins, and limits of..."

• Knowledge

• Beauty

• Ethics

• Logic