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  • Sophie: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Sophie.

  • [pause]

  • Sophie: Neil? ... [sound of a smartphone] Neil!

  • Neil: Oh, sorry! ... And I'm Neil.

  • Sophie: Neil, please put down your phone. We're doing the show!

  • Neil: Yeah, I know. Hang on a minute. I just need to tweet something and... Done!

  • Sophie: And the subject of today's show is social media and its impact on our daily lives.

  • Neil: Hmm, well, I suppose it has had quite a big impact on mine.

  • Sophie: That's all too clear. Now, perhaps we can move on to today's quiz question?

  • Neil: Of course ... I'm all ears. [sound of a smartphone] Oh, hang on, wait a second...

  • Sophie: There's a word to describe what you're doing, you know.

  • Answer me this: Which word describes a situation where you're talking to someone and they suddenly

  • look down at their phone or answer it?

  • Is it... a) phobbing? b) phibbing? Or c) phubbing?

  • Neil: Well, you've got me there, Sophie! I have no idea! But I'll guess that it's c) phubbing!

  • Sophie: Well, we'll find out later on in the show whether you got the answer right or not.

  • Now, let's move on and talk about phone etiquette etiquette means rules of polite behaviour

  • in society or among people in a certain group.

  • Neil: Well... interrupting conversations to check your phone has become a social norm, hasn't it, Sophie?

  • Sophie: Social norms are the rules of behaviour considered acceptable in a group or society.

  • I don't agree, Neil!

  • Let's listen to Professor Sherry Turkle of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • talking about social norms amongst students.

  • Sherry Turkle: I interviewed hundreds of college students

  • and what they talked about was what some of them called "the rule of three".

  • And what the rule of three is which is that if you go to dinner with friends,

  • you don't want to look down at your phone

  • until you see that three people, let's say you're six at dinner,

  • are looking up in the conversation.

  • So there's a new etiquette where you don't look down

  • unless three people are looking up kind of to keep a little conversation alive.

  • Neil: Professor Sherry Turkle.

  • Sophie: Why don't you try out the rule of three once in a while?

  • Neil: There are only two of us here, Sophie - do the math!

  • And I'm listening to you... mmm... let me just send a text message here on my phone ... hang on...

  • [pause]

  • Sophie: Neil... NEIL! I'm not going to carry on with the show unless you pay attention!

  • Neil: Sorry, Sophie. Actually I was just doing that to wind you up.

  • I wasn't really using my phone... Sorry.

  • Sophie: And to wind someone up means to say or do something deliberately in order to annoy someone.

  • Well, I do get wound up about people constantly checking their devices.

  • Yesterday, I was in a cafe... and two girls came in.

  • They sat down and started chatting away but not to each other they were tapping away at their devices.

  • And there was no face-to-face conversation at all!

  • Neil: But you can have moments of connection using your devices, you know?

  • Sophie: If you have a connection with someone you engage emotionally.

  • Neil: Exactly. I was on the train this morning and there were a couple sharing a tablet.

  • They were looking at the screen, and talking about what they saw there.

  • It was very intimate, and they were... well... very connected.

  • Let's hear from Ian Sinclair, British poet and filmmaker, talking about a new generation of connected humans.

  • Iain Sinclair: Physiologically we're changing, that almost the neck muscles are tipped over to look down.

  • We're getting a new kind of human being.

  • And I think ... maybe I'm not getting it, but there is actually a different kind of intimacy emerging

  • in which these instruments are very important.

  • Sophie: So Iain Sinclair says our physiology is changing... our bodies, our neck muscles are changing

  • to make it easier to look down all the time at our devices!

  • But it isn't only muscles that might change as a result of our techie habits.

  • It's the way we interact or engage with each other too.

  • Ian Sinclair talks about a different kind of intimacy emerging, what does he mean, Neil?

  • Neil: Our intimacy or closeness with other people is somehow connected up with our devices.

  • They've become part of us.

  • And I expect some day devices will literally be part of us an implant in our necks or something.

  • Sophie: What a horrible thought!

  • Neil: Let's have the quiz question again Sophie to take your mind off it.

  • Sophie: OK. I asked: Which word describes a situation where you're talking to someone

  • and they suddenly look down at their phone or answer it?

  • Is it& a) phobbing? b) phibbing? Or c) phubbing?

  • Neil: And I said c) phubbing.

  • Sophie: You were right, Neil! Well done!

  • It's a combination of "phone" and "snubbing" snub means to deliberately ignore someone you know.

  • New words formed by putting together parts of existing words are known as blends or portmanteau words.

  • And "phubbing" is starting to appear in some online dictionaries.

  • Now can we hear the words we learned today?

  • [Silence, as Neil is concentrated on his phone]

  • Sophie: Neil? OK! I'll say the words myself:

  • etiquette

  • wind someone up

  • have a connection with someone

  • physiology

  • interact

  • intimacy

  • snub

  • Sophie: Well, that's the end of today's 6 Minute English.

  • Don't forget to connect with us again soon! Come on Neil, connect with us! Come on!

  • Neil: Oh, yeah, hang on, just got to...

  • Sophie: Goodbye!

  • Neil: Hang on... I'll be with you in a second... Yes. OK. Bye!

Sophie: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Sophie.

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BBC 6 Minute English 2016年3月31日 - ソーシャルメディアは気晴らし? (BBC 6 Minute English March 31, 2016 - Is social media a distraction)

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