A SURVEY

PLEASE EMAIL YOUR RESPONSES TO THE INSTRUCTOR, BARBARA LATTANZI blattanz@email.smith.edu

You are not being graded on this in any way! For the ones you don't know, you can skip them or feel free to guess at them. Enjoy!

 1. List up to 3 software applications (if any) with which you consider yourself familiar. (Indicate how familiar: "very", "moderately", or "a little").

 2. Name the computer operating system with which you feel most familiar: Windows PC, Macintosh, Linux, or other.

 3. List your 3 favorite websites (web-addresses not necessary).

 4. List your 3 favorite computer games.

 5. List 3 multinational corporations.

 6. Pick one of the following:

Is the Internet...

- around 10 years old?

- around 20 years old?

- around 30 years old?

 7. Put the following list of technologies in order (as best you can) - from the oldest technology to the most recent:

cinema, radar, computer, vinyl video, photography, television, fax, stereoscope

8. How old is the World Wide Web? (estimate within 5 years)

9. Do you ever have gatherings on-line with friends in multiplayer gaming environments?

10. Have you ever spent time reading a software manual while you were away from a computer?

11. Have you ever participated in a club, a collective project, or an art or music group that involved electronic media?

12. Given that the United States has an estimated population of just over 290 million and World population is estimated at over 6 billion is the following statement True or False: the United States has more computers than the number of computers in the rest of the world combined.

13. Given that the overdeveloped industrialized nations (U.S., Japan, Europe, etc.) have approximately 15 percent of the world's population, what percent of all Internet users in the world do you think are in industrialized nations?...

Pick one: 15 percent, 30 percent, 54 percent, 75 percent, 88 percent

14. True or False: Internet users in Africa and West Asia together account for just 1 percent of people in the world connected online.

15. The industrialized countries have nearly (pick - or guess - one of the following) 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, or 50 telephone lines for every 100 people.

16. What the industrialized world calls (referring to everyone else) "poor countries" have nearly (pick - or guess - one of the following) 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, or 50 telephone lines for every 100 people.

17. True or False: As of 2002, more than half of the world's population has yet to make a telephone call.

18. Given that 8 of 10 Web sites are in English, the English language is understood by (pick one or the following) 1, 4, or 8 out of 10 people on the planet.

19. Did you learn computer programming of any kind in primary, middle, or secondary school?

20. Did you learn video or audio production of any kind in primary, middle, or secondary school?

21. What college-level programming experience do you have?

22. What college-level audio-video production experience do you have?

23. what is "machinima"?

24. what is a "video mash-up"?

25. What is "tactical media"?

26. What is a "demo scene"?

27. What is the "Open Source" movement?