Information, Communication and Information Policy Questions and Answers

Q: Which of the following are the problems of present information environment ?(i) Information indiscipline(ii) Information literacy(iii) Information overload(iv) Information technology

The problems of the present information environment are information indiscipline and information overload, so the answer is A.Information indiscipline is the uncontrolled, unorganised and unreliable production of information, and information overload is the flood of it that no user can absorb. Both are difficulties of the present situation.Information literacy (ii) is a skill that helps to meet the problems and information technology (iv) is a tool, not a problem, so options B, C and D are wrong.

Q: Assertion (A) : The exclusive rights conferred by Intellectual property rights can generally be transferred / licenced to third parties.Reason (R) : The creators want to make monetary benefits out of their intellectual product.

Both statements are true, so the answer is C.The exclusive rights conferred by intellectual property rights can, in general, be assigned or licensed to third parties, as when an author assigns copyright to a publisher. Creators also wish to gain financially from what they produce, and this is the reason why they transfer or license their rights for payment.Options A, B and D call one of them false, which is not so.

61.

According to Machlup the difference between information and knowledge is

A.Information increases with use, whereas knowledge is constant.
B.Information is stimulatory, whereas knowledge is practical.
C.Information is shareable, whereas knowledge is one's property.
D.Information is piecemeal, fragmented, particular, whereas knowledge is structured, coherent and universal.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

Fritz Machlup distinguished information from knowledge by describing information as piecemeal, fragmented and particular, and knowledge as structured, coherent and universal. Information is the raw, scattered material, and knowledge is what a person builds out of it by organising and relating it. The other options give differences that are not Machlup's: that information increases with use, that it is stimulatory, or that it is shareable while knowledge is personal property. The answer is the fourth option.

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62.

Assertion (A) : Knowledge is growing exponentially.

Reason (R) : Number of researchers have increased.
Codes :

A.Both (A) & (R) are true.
B.Both (A) and (R) are false.
C.(A) is false but (R) is true.
D.(A) is true but (R) is false.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

Both statements are true. Knowledge, measured by the volume of publications, is growing exponentially, as Price showed in his studies of the growth of science. The number of researchers has increased too, and it is one reason for the growth in literature. So both (A) and (R) are true. The options that call the assertion or the reason false are wrong. The doubling of scientific literature every few years is the standard way the growth is described in information science.

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63.

Which of the following are the fundamental conditions for a subject to be protected by IPR ?

(i) The work must be original
(ii) The work must be man made
(iii) The work must be intelligible
(iv) The work must be recorded/ fixed

A.(i), (ii) and (iii) are correct.
B.(i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
C.(ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct.
D.(i), (ii) and (iv) are correct.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

The fundamental conditions for a work to be protected by IPR are that it must be original, man-made and recorded or fixed, so the answer is D.

Copyright protects an original work made by a person, and the work must have been fixed in some tangible form, since an idea that has not been expressed is not protected.

Whether the work is intelligible (iii) is not one of the conditions, so options A, B and C are wrong.

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64.

Which of the following are the problems of present information environment ?

(i) Information indiscipline
(ii) Information literacy
(iii) Information overload
(iv) Information technology

A.(i), (iii) are correct
B.(i) and (iv) are correct
C.(ii) and (iv) are correct
D.(i) and (ii) are correct

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The problems of the present information environment are information indiscipline and information overload, so the answer is A.

Information indiscipline is the uncontrolled, unorganised and unreliable production of information, and information overload is the flood of it that no user can absorb. Both are difficulties of the present situation.

Information literacy (ii) is a skill that helps to meet the problems and information technology (iv) is a tool, not a problem, so options B, C and D are wrong.

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65.

Assertion (A) : E-publications have added enormous quantity of literature but adversely affected the quality of literature.

Reason (R) : Present decade has accepted E-publication as channels of fast communication.

A.(A) is true (R) is false.
B.(A) is false, but (R) is correct.
C.Both (A) & (R) are false.
D.Both (A) & (R) are true.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

The key accepts both statements as true, so the answer is D.

Electronic publication has added an enormous quantity of literature, and the lack of strict screening and review has lowered the quality of part of it. In the same decade, electronic publication has been accepted as a channel of fast communication.

Options A, B and C call one of the statements false, which the key does not accept.

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66.

Assertion (A) : The exclusive rights conferred by Intellectual property rights can generally be transferred / licenced to third parties.

Reason (R) : The creators want to make monetary benefits out of their intellectual product.

A.(A) is true but (R) is false.
B.(A) is false but (R) is true.
C.Both (A) & (R) are true.
D.Both (A) & (R) are false.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

Both statements are true, so the answer is C.

The exclusive rights conferred by intellectual property rights can, in general, be assigned or licensed to third parties, as when an author assigns copyright to a publisher. Creators also wish to gain financially from what they produce, and this is the reason why they transfer or license their rights for payment.

Options A, B and D call one of them false, which is not so.

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67.

Match the following :

List - I	List - II
a. William Martin	i. Little Science Big Science
b. Alvin Toffler	ii. Information society
c. Eric J de Solla Price	iii. Documentation
d. S.C. Bradford	iv. The Third Wave

A.a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i
B.a-iv, b-ii, c-iii, d-i
C.a-ii, b-iv, c-i, d-iii
D.a-i, b-iv, c-ii, d-iii

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The correct matching is William Martin with the information society, Alvin Toffler with The Third Wave, Derek de Solla Price with Little Science, Big Science and S. C. Bradford with documentation, so the answer is a-ii, b-iv, c-i, d-iii, option C.

Martin wrote on the information society, and Toffler's The Third Wave (1980) described the information age. Price's Little Science, Big Science (1963) is a founding book of the science of science, and Bradford's work on the scatter of articles and his book Documentation make up his contribution.

The other codes pair the authors with the wrong titles.

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68.

Match the following :

List - I	List - II
a. Communication Barrier	i. Radio
b. Communication Medium	ii. Shanon & Weaver
c. Communication Model	iii. Videoconferencing
d. Interactive Communication	iv. Noise

A.a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
B.a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii
C.a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
D.a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

The correct matching is communication barrier with noise, communication medium with radio, communication model with Shannon and Weaver, and interactive communication with videoconferencing, so the answer is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii, option B.

Noise is anything that disturbs the message on its way and so is the barrier. Radio carries the message, so it is a medium. Shannon and Weaver gave the best-known model of communication, and a video conference allows two-way, interactive exchange.

Each other code assigns noise or radio to a different element of communication.

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69.

Match the following :

List - I	List - II
a. Osgood and Schramm	i. General Model
b. Berlo	ii. Mathematical Model
c. Shannon and Weaver	iii. Circular Model
d. George Gerbner	iv. S-M-C-R Model

A.a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
B.a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
C.a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i
D.a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The correct matching is Osgood and Schramm with the circular model, Berlo with the S-M-C-R model, Shannon and Weaver with the mathematical model and Gerbner with the general model, so the answer is a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i, option C.

Osgood and Schramm drew communication as a circle in which each party both sends and receives. Berlo's model has four parts, source, message, channel and receiver. Shannon and Weaver's is a mathematical theory of the transmission of signals, and Gerbner proposed a general model.

The other codes assign the models to the wrong authors.

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70.

Match the following :

List - I	List - II
a. Information contribution to the GNP of a nation	i. Social information
b. Information that changes human activity	ii. Technological information
c. Information that establishes interaction between government and people	iii. Economic information
d. Information that forms a modern society	iv. Political information

A.a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii
B.a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii
C.a-iv, b-ii, c-i, d-iii
D.a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The correct matching is economic information with the contribution to the GNP, social information with the information that changes human activity, political information with the interaction between the government and people, and technological information with the information that forms a modern society, so the answer is a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii, option A.

Information that adds to the gross national product is economic. Information that changes the ways in which people act is social, information that connects government and citizens is political, and the information that shapes a modern, technological society is technological.

The other codes give these four descriptions to different kinds of information.

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