1- Use the concept of the information hierarchy and use examples to explain this statement: "Information processing is the primary activity of value generation in the new economy."

2- How does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act strikes a balance between keeping the Internet free and open and protecting copyright and intellectual property?

3- Castells states that it is the emergence of a "network society" that does truly mark a novel society. "I know no society in which information and knowledge have not been absolutely decisive in every aspect of society'. Thus "while we are not in an information society . . . we are in a networked society."Explain this statement and give two examples to illustrate the emergence of the network society.

4- Explain this statement: "Arguments against technological determinism claim that technology is neutral in the sense that it merely provides options; it does not compel anyone to take up those options."