Unit 1: 1 Introduction
Topic 1.1: What is digital society? Questions
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Identify **two** factors that can cause a digital divide within a single country.
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Describe **one** way in which the digital divide has changed over the past twenty years.
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With reference to Source A, explain **one** consequence of a place being missing from a widely used map.
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Outline what is meant by the **skills divide**.
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Discuss the claim that providing internet access is enough to close the digital divide.
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Discuss a university's decision to offer a faster paid connection alongside its free one.
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Identify **two** terms that have been used to describe contemporary society.
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Identify **two** changes that the term **digital society** is used to describe.
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With reference to Source A, identify **two** claims the speaker makes about the microprocessor.
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Explain **one** reason why the term **digital society** is described as contested.
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Identify **two** differences between an analogue signal and a digital signal.
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Compare and contrast the views expressed in Source A and Source B about what counts as a milestone in digital society.
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Identify the **three** stages in converting an analogue signal into digital form.
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Identify **two** risks to material that has been digitized.
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Identify **two** kinds of data that a computer represents using binary digits.
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Explain **one** reason why digital systems represent data using only two states.
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With reference to Source A, suggest **two** ways the archive could reduce the storage its recordings require without losing what its users need.
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Identify **two** changes an organization makes when it digitalizes a process.
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Suggest **two** measures a library could take to ensure a digitized collection is still readable in fifty years.
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Explain **one** reason why increasing the sampling rate does not always improve a digitized recording.
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