Episode 4 part 2+Mp3+Tape
134 h2’00’’11+ DVD '8''37
Dr Aleks Krotoski
concludes her investigation into how the world wide web is transforming our
lives.
In the fourth programme
in the series, she looks at how the internet is changing our very behaviour -
and even our brain functions.
Joined by Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Al Gore and the neuroscientist Susan
Greenfield, Aleks examines the popularity of social networks such as Facebook.
How are they changing our
relationships? Do they bring us together - or do they end up leaving us more
isolated?
1.
Jim
says that the kids come home and are on Facebook while they are having their
____________.
2.
When
Jackie was young they didn’t even have __________.
3.
Jackie
says that it would be like _______________ if you took her daughter’s Facebook
site away from her.
4.
Louis
(Jackie’s son) thinks that before the web people just ___________
5.
Using
a data sample of eight million people we can reveal how far the UK population
________________________________ the orbit of the online social networks.
6.
Bebo
is for __________________.
7.
More
than half of UK Facebook members ______________ daily.
8.
Facebook
is so ______________ that it has become the main target of parents’ angst
9.
CLAY
SHIRKY: People my age, mid 40s and up, are _____________ over what kids are
doing, teens are doing on Facebook, as if we would not have done those things
had Facebook existed when we were young.
10.
The
key criticism of Facebook is that it makes friendship meaningless and that
________________ society
11.
The
label of friendship is just as easily attained by lifelong buddies as it is by
total strangers _________________ connections.
12.
On the
24th May 2007, just ten days after his 23rd birthday,
Mark Zuckerberg ________________ into this hall and explained the secret of Facebook’s
triumphant success
13.
Zuckerberg’s
aim was that Facebook would become the destination to connect to friends and
share information, text, photos or social events. All that you need to do is
sign up, create a profile, find your mates and___________________ to become
your Facebook friend.
14.
In
this way, each Facebook member ______________ their own group of friends, all
within the larger network
15.
Zuckerberg:
We are building a massive network of real connections between people, through
which information can flow more _________ than it really ever has in the past.
And it’s changing the way the world works
KEY
1.
first
cup of tea
2. a home telephone
3. removing her arm
4. read books
5. has been sucked into
suck
sb in | suck sb into sth[usually
passive] to involve sb in an activity or a
situation, especially one they do not want to be involved in.
6. The early teens.
7. log on
8. pervasive
pervasive: adjective. Existing in all parts of a place or thing; spreading
gradually to affect all parts of a place or thing (Sp. generalizado, dominante,
penetrante):
a pervasive smell of damp
a pervasive smell of damp
A sense of social change is
pervasive in her novels.
9. wringing their hands
angst noun[U] (from German) a feeling of anxiety
and worry about a situation, or about your life:
songs full of teenage angst
songs full of teenage angst
wring
your hands: to hold your hands together, and twist
and squeeze them in a way that shows you are anxious or upset, especially when
you cannot change the situation
wring verb (wrung, wrung)
1 wring
sth (out) to twist and squeeze clothes, etc. in order to get the water out
of them
2 if you wring a bird’s neck, you twist it
in order to kill the bird
10. undermines
undermine verb [vn]
1 to make sth, especially sb’s confidence
or authority, gradually weaker or less effective. E.g. Our confidence in the team has been seriously undermined by
their recent defeats. This crisis has
undermined his position.
11. hoarding
Hoard: verb. To collect and keep large amounts of food, money, etc.,
especially secretly. Sp. Almacenar
12. shuffled
shuffle verb. To walk slowly without lifting your feet completely off the
ground (Sp. caminar arrastrando los pies). E.g. He shuffled across the room to the window. The line shuffled forward a little.
13. have them agree
14. carves out
carve
sth (out) (for yourself) to work hard in order to
have a successful career, reputation, etc. (Sp. forjarse algo):
She has carved a place for herself in the fashion world.
She has carved a place for herself in the fashion world.
He succeeded in carving out a career in the
media.
15. efficiently
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