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22 Digital jungle 02 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS Read the web postings about the article. Who thinks the woman should go to prison? LanguagE FOCuS 7 Justifying your point of view Of course they should send her to prison. (1) Otherwise, everyone’ll start doing this! Sue756, Oct 26, 7.27 She should pay a fine, OK. But prison? No way. Keep prison for the real criminals. SpaceMan, Oct 26, 22.45 A virtual fine? Ha ha! But seriously, this is a real crime and we need to get tough on it. Sue756, Oct 26, 23.27 Agreed, but I’d rather she did something like community service. (2) That way, she’ll be paying something back to society. Whiz, Oct 27, 9.14 Sue756 got it right. This kind of crime is increasingly common and no one’s stopping it. We need tough sentences (3) or it’ll get totally out of control. Mortimer, Oct 27, 14.14 Consequences Replace expressions 1–3 in the web postings with: a If not,  b or else  c Then  Circle  the correct options. 1 We need to pass new laws against virtual crimes, then / or else they’ll continue to increase. 2 Maybe – but if not / then I think we’ll end up giving too much importance to this type of crime. 3 We need to be aware of new kinds of crime. That way /Otherwise, criminals always have the advantage. 4 We’ve got to pay attention to real crime. If not /That way, things are going to get a lot worse in real life! In groups, consider each situation in the list on p. 190. What punishment do you think would be suitable? Use expressions from 7 and 8 to justify your ideas. a 8 b SPEaKing 9 Cover the definitions below. What do you think the terms ‘datafication’ and ‘big data’ refer to? Talk in pairs. Read the definitions to check your ideas. a SPEaKing 10 b Talk in class. 1 How do you think you personally contribute to big data? What kind of data about you is saved without you knowing:   when and where it is saved?    with which devices it is saved? 2 What purposes does this data primarily serve? 3 What could the data be used for without your consent? 4 How do your friends deal with this situation? Your parents? Your school? 11 Big data datafication [ £deçt‹fç}keçS‹n ] noun a process of understanding the world by transforming everything, from our actions to our thoughts, from social media to the internet of things, into a numerically quantified format or ‘data’. Data storage, data management and data analysis technologies now provide us with the tools to spot the patterns, trends and relationships in political, economic, social and environmental relationships. big data [ £bçg }deçt‹ ] noun very large and complex data sets that can only be stored and analysed using special tools and methods. Since so much of organisations’ IT investment is going toward managing big data, it’s important to leverage these resources as effectively as possible. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv