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From the Ted Talk by Eli Pariser: What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So spaces shape behavior, partly by the way they're dnsgeeid and partly by the way that they encode certain norms about how to behave. We all know that there are some behaviors that are OK in a bar that are not OK in a library, and maybe vice vresa. And this gives us a little bit of a clue, because there are online spaces that encode these same kinds of behavioral norms. So, for example, behavior on LinkedIn seems pettry good. Why? Because it reads as a workplace. And so people follow workplace nrmos. You can even see it in the way they dress in their piolfre pictures.

Open Cloze

So spaces shape behavior, partly by the way they're ________ and partly by the way that they encode certain norms about how to behave. We all know that there are some behaviors that are OK in a bar that are not OK in a library, and maybe vice _____. And this gives us a little bit of a clue, because there are online spaces that encode these same kinds of behavioral norms. So, for example, behavior on LinkedIn seems ______ good. Why? Because it reads as a workplace. And so people follow workplace _____. You can even see it in the way they dress in their _______ pictures.

Solution

  1. profile
  2. norms
  3. pretty
  4. versa
  5. designed

Original Text

So spaces shape behavior, partly by the way they're designed and partly by the way that they encode certain norms about how to behave. We all know that there are some behaviors that are OK in a bar that are not OK in a library, and maybe vice versa. And this gives us a little bit of a clue, because there are online spaces that encode these same kinds of behavioral norms. So, for example, behavior on LinkedIn seems pretty good. Why? Because it reads as a workplace. And so people follow workplace norms. You can even see it in the way they dress in their profile pictures.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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