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Currently, several companies are competing to become “the leading” mobile online payment solution (pay-by-phone). This race includes industry giants like Apple, Google, PayPal, Venmo, and eBay. These companies try very hard to quickly grow their user base because they hope to benefit from one important digital trait that will convert them from “one app” into “the app”:

According to Carlota Perez’s framework, which of the following conditions is NOT (!) one of the conditions required for a technology to trigger a ‘great surge’ / ‘long-wave’ of societal evolution?

Not all aspects of every digital trait apply to all fields of application. For example, it is impossible that online video-conferencing software (like “Zoom” or “Teams”) provide solutions to implement all four features of poly-directional communication.

Why is there a sheer endless debate about whether the digital divide is closing or widening? 

What is the most famous concept of the “prophet of innovation”, Joseph Schumpeter?

Which of the following is NOT an effect caused by digital technology? 

The “Differential Susceptibility Model” proposes that it is enough to know the developmental psyche of the user to predict the (positive and negative) effects of media on the user.

The statement “The internet fosters control and dictatorship” is an example of:

It has been shown that persuasive tech, such as recommender engines, targets a series of long-standing and well-known human decision-making biases. Among them, the human tendency to favor information that supports one’s prior beliefs is known as: 

 During lecture we have seen a case study from the ancient civilizations of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia and the Incas in South America. What was the key take away message?