Tour the collectives of cyberspace BY VERO BOTAS

Tour the collectives of cyberspace BY: VERO, BOTAS (RICARDO) Y LALO

• Increasing people are posting opinions on online journalsweblogs or blogs, they are trading songs on illegal filesharing networks, and they are volunteering articles.

• Thanks to new technologies such as blog software, peerto-peer networks, open-source software, and wikis, people are getting together to take collective action like never before…

Webpages: • Amazon: Encourages all kinds of customer participation in site

• My space and Facebook: Are the latest phenomena in social networking, attracting millions of unique visitors a month. There is even a 3 D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents called Second Life

• Flickr • Google Youtube Skype Bit Torrent •

B: Read the article again and match the sentences beginnings (1 -5) with the correct endings (a-e) 1: a weblog, or blog, is an electronic e: that displays in chronological journal order the postings of one or more people 2: A peer-to-peer systems allows c: users to share files on their computers 3: You can use a search engine to find a: web pages on a particular subject 4: Bit Torrent is a peer-to-peer protocol b: for downloading files over the used internet 5: RRS keeps you constantly informed d: about fresh , new content on your favorite

FIND IN THE ARTICLE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS • OPEN-SOURCE, EDITABLE WEB PAGES: WIKIPEDIA • THE SAME ELECTRONIC RETAILER: SECOND LIFE, FACEBOOK, MY SPACE , AMAZON, EBAY • A BLOG THAT INCLUDES VIDEO: YOUTUBE, FLICKR • A PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE VOICE AND VIDEO CALLS FROM A COMPUTER : SKYPE • AN AUDIO BROADCAST DISTRIBUTED OVER THE INTERNET: BIT-TORRENT