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1、ALIENATION AND THE INTERNETUnit 3Unit 3ALIENATION AND THE INTERNETUnit 3采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Watch the video and answer the following questions.1. According to Mark, why did people come t
2、o the Facemash in a stampede?Audiovisual supplementCultural informationIt wasnt because they saw pictures of hot girls, but because they saw pictures of girls they knew.For one thing, there was nothing to hack. People would provide their own pictures, their own information, and people had the abilit
3、y to invite, or not invite, their friends to join. In addition, in a world where social structure was everything, that was the thing.2. According to Eduardo, what was so great about the idea?采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Audiovisual supplementCultural information
4、From Youve Got Mail采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Mark: Eduardo:Mark:Eduardo:Mark: People came to the Facemash in a stampede, right?Yeah. But it wasnt because they saw pictures of hot girls. You can go anywhere on the Internet and see pictures of hot girls.Yeah.Th
5、ats because they saw pictures of girls they knew. People want to go on the Internet and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers that? Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you can visit, browse around. Maybe its someone you just met at a party. But Im not talking about a dati
6、ng site. Im talkingAudiovisual supplementCultural information采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Eduardo:Mark:Eduardo:Eduardo:Mark: Mark: about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online. I cant feel my legs.I know. Im totally psyched about th
7、is, too. But, Wardo?Yeah?(recalling): “It would be exclusive.” You would have to know the people on the site to get past your own page, like getting punched. Now, thats good.Wardo, its like a final club, except were the president. 采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Ed
8、uardo: (recalling): I told him I thought it sounded great. It was a great idea. There was nothing to hack. People were gonna provide their own pictures, their own information. And people had the ability to invite, or not invite, their friends to join. See, in a world where social structure was every
9、thing, that was the thing.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物 The Internet is a wonderful source from which we can retrieve valuable information. Moreover, it facilitates our communication with people far away from us at a cost substantially less than that of traditio
10、nal means of communication. Also, it can be an important building block to childrens learning because a vast amount of information is only clicks away. There is evidence suggesting that computer use is linked to slightly better academic performance.Audiovisual supplementCultural informationPros and
11、Cons of the Internet采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Audiovisual supplementCultural information However, there is sufficient evidence indicating that the Internet can exert a harmful influence on people. For example, its addictive power has increased children andyou
12、ngsters time spent in front of the computer screens at the expense of other healthier physical activities, thus increasing their chance of getting overweight and short-sighted. In addition, children have limited ability of telling right from wrong and therefore are subject to the potential contamina
13、ting influence of the harmful materials on the Internet.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Structural analysisRhetorical features If the Internet allows for the free exchange of ideas, it helps to unify us. Then how does it alienate us while uniting us? How does it fr
14、agment society while globalizing ideas? This is the issue that the author tackles in the text. This piece of argumentative writing falls into three parts.Part I (Paragraphs 1 2): The writer presents his thesis in the opening part: the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of s
15、ociety by alienating its individual users.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Structural analysisRhetorical featuresPart II (Paragraphs 3 6): The author supports his point with evidence and reasons in the body of argumentation.Part III (Paragraph 7): The writer reitera
16、tes his main idea in the conclusion of the text.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Structural analysisRhetorical featuresThe thesis statement of the text is in the second paragraph: “. the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alie
17、nating its individual users.” The concluding statement appears at the beginning of the last paragraph: “All this being said, I believe that the key to realizing the potential of the Internet is in achieving balance in our lives.”采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Stru
18、ctural analysisRhetorical features The seeming self-contradiction that the Internet can lead to globalization on the one hand and cause the alienation of the users from the people around them on the other is reinforced by the use of pairs of antonyms. Some examples: globalization/alienation; real /
19、not real; reality / virtual existence; outside playing with his friends / play his games against his friends in the cyberspacePractice: Please find more examples of antonyms in the text.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物 The Internet provides an amazing forum for the
20、 free exchange of ideas. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international waters. It is my personal belief that the human potential can only be realized by the globalization of ideas. I developed this position years before t
21、he Internet came into widespread use. And I am excited at the potential for the Internet to dramatically alter our global society for the better. However I am also troubled by the possible unintended negative consequences.Will BakerALIENATION AND THE INTERNETDetailed reading1采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配
22、件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物 There has been much talk about the “new information age.” But much less widely reported has been the notion that the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users. At first this might sound like
23、an apparent contradiction: how can something, that is on the one hand responsible for global unification by enabling the free exchange of ideas, alienate the participants? I had a recent discussion with a friend of mine who has what he described as a “problem” with the Internet. When I questioned fu
24、rther he said that he was “addicted,”Detailed reading23采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物and has “forced” himself to go off-line. He said that he felt like an alcoholic, in that moderate use of the Internet was just not possible for him. I have not known this fellow
25、to be given to exaggeration, therefore when he described his Internet binges, when he would spend over twenty-four hours on line non-stop, it gave me pause to think. He said, “the Internet isnt real, but I was spending all my time on line, so I just had to stop.” He went on to say that all of the ti
26、me that he spent on line might have skewed his sense of reality, and that it made him feel lonely and depressed.Detailed reading采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物 The fragmentation of society has been lamented for some time now. It seems to me that it probably began
27、in earnest after World War II when a generation returned from doing great deeds overseas. They won the war, and by God they were going to win the peace. Automobile ownership became commonplace and suburbs were created. “Progress” was their mantra. So even prior to the Internets widespread popularity
28、, folks were already becoming distanced from their extended families and neighbors. And when we fast-forward to today we see an almost cruel irony in that people can and often do develop on-line relationships with folks on the other side of the globe, without leaving their homes. Detailed reading4采用
29、PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingBut at the expense of the time that would have otherwise been available for involvement in other activities which might foster a sense of community in their villages, towns and cities. Last weekend my wife and I invited
30、 our extended family to our home to celebrate our daughters birthday. During the celebration my young nephew spent the entire time on my computer playing a simulated war game. My brother-in-law and I were chatting nearby and it struck us that in generations past, his son, my nephew, would have been
31、outside playing with his friends. But now the little fellow goes on line to play his games against his friends in cyberspace.5采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed reading It seems to me that the Internet is a powerful tool that presents an opportunity for the a
32、dvancement of the acquisition and application of knowledge. However, based on my personal experience I can understand how, as they surf the web some folks might be confronted with cognitive overload. And I can also understand how one might have his or her sense of reality distorted in the process. I
33、s the Internet a real place? Depending upon how a “real place” is defined it might very well be. At the very least, I believe that when we use the Internet, 6采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingwe are forced to ask fundamental questions about how we per
34、ceive the world about us perhaps another unintended consequence. Some would argue that the virtual existences created by some users who debate, shop, travel and have romance on line are in fact not real, while others would argue that, since in practical terms, folks are debating, shopping, traveling
35、 and having romance, the converse is true.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed reading All of this being said, I believe that the key to realizing the potential of the Internet is in achieving balance in our lives. This would allow us to maximize its potential
36、without losing our sense of place. However, like most things, that is easier said than done. It seems to me that we are a society that values immediate gratification above all else, and what better place to achieve it than in cyberspace, where the cyber-world is your cyber-oyster. The widespread use
37、 of the automobile forever changed our society and culture, and perhaps a similar sort of thing is occurring now. I am not at all7采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingcertain where the “information superhighway” will lead us: some say to Utopia, while ot
38、hers feel its the road to hell. But I do know that we all have the ability to maintain our sense of place in the world. Whether we choose to take advantage of this ability is another matter.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物How does the author start his argument? The
39、 author starts his argument by presenting an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, the Internet facilitates global unification by enabling the free exchange of ideas; on the other, it alienates the participants.Detailed reading采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Det
40、ailed readingWhat is the authors purpose of citing the example of his friend in Paragraph 3? How is the example related to his argument? With the example of his friend, the author intends to convince the reader of the negative consequence of the Internet. His friend was addicted to the Internet and
41、stayed on line too long. The side effect of the Internet upon his friend, i.e. distorting his sense of reality and making him feel lonely and depressed, is evidence that the Internet contributes to the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管
42、材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingWhat is the “cruel irony” concerning the use of the Internet mentioned at the end of Paragraph 4?The “cruel irony” means that on the one hand the Internet provides users with a convenient means of communicating and making friends with people far apart, bu
43、t on the other, it estranges them from people around them by curtailing their availability for face-to-face communication even with their families and close friends and for involvement in community activities.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingWhat is
44、the main idea of Paragraph 6?In this paragraph, the author means to illustrate how the overuse of the Internet may distort the users sense of reality.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingDoes the author believe it is within human capacity to reap the ben
45、efit of the Internet without being penalized?Yes. He thinks that people are able to maintain their sense of place while exploiting the resources of the Internet.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingGroup discussionDo you find the Internet useful in your
46、life? What advantages does the Internet bring to you? Are there any disadvantages of the Internet? Share your opinions about the pros and cons of the Internet with your groupmates.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物given: prep. when you consider sth.e.g. Given his age
47、 (= considering how old he is), hes remarkably active. Given her interest in children, teaching seems the right job for her.Detailed readinggiven that: conj.e.g. It was surprising the government was re-elected, given that they had raised taxes so much.a. fixed for a purpose and stated as suche.g. Th
48、ey were to meet at a given time and place.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingequivalent:n. sth. equal in value, measure, force, effect or significanceThe dress cost the equivalent of a weeks salary.What is the equivalent of fifty pounds in US dollars?
49、e.g.Comparison: equivalent (of/to sth.) a. equal in value, amount, meaning, importance, etc.Eight kilometers is roughly equivalent to five miles. e.g.Comparison: equivalent (to sth.) 采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆度，保持熔接部位干净无污物Detailed readingRewrite the sentence using “equiva
50、lent”:Breathing such polluted air has the same effect as smoking ten cigarettes a day. Answer:Breathing such polluted air is the equivalent of smoking ten cigarettes a day.Breathing such polluted air is equivalent to smoking ten cigarettes a day.采用PP管及配件：根据给水设计图配置好PP管及配件，用管件在管材垂直角切断管材，边剪边旋转，以保证切口面的圆