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WorksheetsBSIM4020_1
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 19mins
How many questions do you expect to get right? （12 questions in total; ? / 12 ）
What is censorship?
The suppression of information.
The official name of that 'bleep' sound.
The reduction of the five senses.
Allowing equal access to all information.
What was the Arab Spring?
The rise of a series of dictators who suppressed information in Arabic-speaking nations.
The development of the Internet in Arabic-speaking nations.
A series of revolutions in Arabic-speaking nations largely organized using social media.
The creation of the first governments in history in Arabic nations millennia ago, and the first government censorship
Which of these is an example of self-censorship?
Galileo was arrested for presenting an idea that was opposed to the mainstream view of the Church.
Youth in Arabic-speaking nations decide to oppose censorship and start a revolution.
A newspaper editor chooses not to write the entire truth because he is afraid of being red.
Josef Stalin often had people erased from pictures after they were executed.
How confident are you about attaining at least that score?
Not very sure
Quite sure
Absolutely sure
Which of these is not a reason that people allow censorship?
For security and protection.
To prevent the truth from being known.
To preserve moral values.
All of these are common reasons that people accept censorship.
The information society has also been described as a _____ society.
Industrial society
Post-industrial society
Technological society
Communications society
Who is the first person who developed the concept of information society?
Stephen Hawking
Alessandro volta
Fritz Machlup
Charles robert
Which of the following is NOT a major characteristic of the information society?
Production of material goods has increased as the primary economic sector in the information age.
Information now functions as a key economic resource.
Economies now have special infrastructures to facilitate the circulation of information.
Consumers now use and consume information at rapid rates.
Which of the following best explains the relationship of consumers and citizens to the information society?
Consumers rely more on technology today.
Consumers rely less on technology today since information is everywhere.
Consumers use more technology at work but less at home.
Technology and the self are becoming more separated.
Which of the following best explains the relationship between production and the information society?
In the information age, production is anchored in particular places and not in a global economy.
In the information age, production has shifted from knowledge and information to material goods.
In the information age, production has not changed much but our use of technology has increased.
In the information age, production has shifted from material goods to knowledge and information.
A government uses it's power over the media to only let people see the good things they are doing. What is this an example of?
Religious censorship
Military censorship
Self-censorship
Political censorship
Manuel Castells saw technological innovations changing the capitalist economy on a global scale as well as the intertwining of technology and society. He called this _____.
Post-industrial age
Information society
Network society
Information age
Since the first book, ' Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone', was published in the US in 1999, JK Rowling's boy wizard series has faced more than the challenge of having its books restricted, banned or even burned.
Some censors claim that Harry Potter glorifies magic and mysterious, confusing children and leads them to try to imitate the spells and curses they read. And there are some concerns about the violent and increasingly dark tone of the later books in the series. But most censorship attempts against Harry Potter have been for religious reasons. As recently as 2019, a Catholic school in Tennessee decided to stop checking out the Harry Potter series from its library, citing concerns that they 'risked invoking evil spirits'. Harry Potter is also regularly displayed during ALA's Banned Books Week for being 'anti-family, occult/satanist, religious views, violent'.
In 2006, a secondary school in Gwinnett County was challenged by a mother over whether Harry Potter should be kept in school. The mother argued that the Harry Potter books promoted witchcraft and contained violent content that was inappropriate for her 15-year-old daughter to read. After the initial censor panel rejected the request to remove the books from the school, the petitioner appealed to the school board. However, the school board upheld the decision of the censor panel to keep the books. The parent, however, then took her fight to the Georgia State Board of Education and the civil courts. Those bodies also upheld the original decision, but the parent vowed to keep fighting.
Can you make any arguments for or against for ‘Harry potter’?
