GEO 372 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Alternative Facts, Betting In Poker, Chaos Theory
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Quiz #3 - questions from lectures 6 and 7: digitocracy, environment & resources. Study guide: know what the digital divide is. Difference between developed + developing countries in access to information and communications technology (ict) Travelling public=tourists, business trips, migrants, refugees spread information, disease, terror but can also lead to economic development and the spreading of info/ideas. Everyone gets to vote with their thumbs, a whole new political system. As information becomes more easily available we become more ignorant to it. Evidence/argument has become opinion/dogma, enthusiasm for ignorance, alternate facts, social media lies. Increasing speed and scope: who invented the global village and what are the recent historical events behind it. Marshall mcluhan used it to describe effects of mass media on distance. Leads to demonstration effect and the homogenization of societies begin. Darker side=disease, terror, resource exploitation, underdevelopment, usurpation of democracy by growing power of the tnc.
