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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Reading Comprehension Activity

"Teenagers Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing" and "How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer"




1.-What are the opinions expressed by the researchers in texts 2 and 3?
In "Teenagers internet socializing not a bad thing", the researcher talks about how it is good for teenagers to use the current internet and technology, that teenagers will learn the right method to use them and in the future will be able to use the devices in a more advanced way. In "How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer", by Tamar Lewin, he talks about how kids use it all day, spend the hole day on the internet, specially Facebook, and do not communicate with their parents enough. Kids are isolated, and will have a risk to die because of spending too much time on it. "Blood clot victim, Chris Staniforth, 20, died after spending up to 12 hours at a time playing on his Xbox."
2.-What are the differences in the ways the researchers view community?
One of them views the learning process that we acquire by the technology and the other one the health damages that this technology brings.
3.-What kinds of distinctions do the researchers make (or not make) in relation to communication?
Lewin says that the online communication or messages are almost the same as face to face, he also mentions that with online communication you are able to communicate at all time, while face to face you have to be there. The other text says that if you don't communicate face to face you may have serious health problems, "increased isolation could alter the way genes work and upset immune responses, hormone levels and the function of arteries."

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