Test Preparation on IBPS SO Mains Reasoning Mock Test

In the first few lines of the passage, it has been stated that "cheap personal computers (PCs) and servers, the Internet and its local wired/wireless feeder networks, and powerful, low-cost software..." has resulted into "a democratization of publishing and media production using digital technology" which implies that it is no more a privilege of the few.

It can be interpreted from the following statements of the passage "Nor is it to say that entertainment companies (e.g., film, music, radio, and television companies) and information companies (e.g., book, database, and serial publishers) have ceded the digital-content battlefield to the upstarts. Quite the contrary. High-quality, thousand-page-per-volume scientific journals and Hollywood blockbusters cannot be produced for pennies, even with digital wizardry."

It can be interpreted from the following statement of the passage, "Unconstrained access to past works helps determine the richness of future works."

The central theme that runs through the passage is a digital technology and its impact on conventional media which is analysed while concluding by juxtaposing it to the challenge of copyright laws.

Statement (i) can be inferred from the following statements of the passage, "Information and entertainment companies still have an important role to play, and, even if they didn't, they hold the copyrights to a significant chunk of our cultural heritage." Moreover, it has been again stated in the passage that, "The thing about the future is that it is rooted in the past. Culture, even digital culture, builds on what has gone before." Hence, option (i) is correct. Statement (ii) can be inferred from the following statement, "Citizens have morphed from passive media consumers to digital-media producers and publishers". Statement (iii) can be inferred from the following statements of the passage, "Not to say that print and conventional media are dead, of course, but it is clear that their era of dominance is waning."

Concocting stands for "creating or devising" whereas "manipulating" has a negative connotation that means "to control or influence". Hence, "devising" is the most similar word.