Social Networks + Ireland

Hey,

today we first warmed up with your internet habits and particularly your Facebook habits. I was suprised that some of you didn't have a Facebook account but also that some of you were real Facebook ADDICTS (20 hours a day... ... ... how is this even possible...?).

Here is the document we watched about the subject:

Here is what we said about it:

The document is a spoof. It deals with social networks and more precisely Facebook.

The story is set in the 1950's or 60's when Facebook didn't exist. There is a discrepancy between the fact that Facebook existed and real history.

The story features Alice who comes back home from work and connects to Facebook to read the newsfeed of her friends and in particular the news of Timmy, her fiancé.
She realizes that Timmy has broken up with her. His relationship status is now "Single". He has a new lover: Donna Whitehouse.
Alice starts a hate group in which she says that Timmy "doesn't buy things made in the USA" and "is a communist". Her revelation leads Timmy into being arrested.

Indeed, at that period, Mc Carthy was in power in the USA and there was a witch-hunt against communists.

The document intends to denounce the way some people use Facebook. They don't take the "common sense rules" of Facebook seriously.

Then we started a new sequence with you knew about Ireland and we saw that lots of things had to be taught about that country to avoid stereotyping and build up correct knowledge.

HW: for tomorrow, you need to answer questions A and B from your worksheet.

Files:

- Download the worksheet here.