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Terry Wolfisch Cole may seem like an ordinary 40-year-old mom, but her neighbors know the truth-. She’s one of the "Pod People.
Terry Wolfisch Cole may seem like an ordinary 40-year-old mom, but her neighbors know the truth-. She’s one of the "Pod People.
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2014-06-30
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Terry Wolfisch Cole may seem like an ordinary 40-year-old mom, but her neighbors know the truth-. She’s one of the "Pod People. " At the supermarket she wanders the aisles in a self-contained bubble, thanks to her iPod digital music player. Through those little white ear buds, Wolfisch Cole listens to a playlist mixed by her favorite disc presenter—herself.
At home, when the kids are tucked away, Wolfisch Cole often escapes to another solo media pod— but in this one, she’s transmitting instead of just receiving. On her computer web log, or "blog" , she types an online journal chronicling daily news of her life, then shares it all with the Web.
Wolfisch Cole—who also gets her daily news customized off the Internet and whose digital video recorder(DVR)scans through the television wasteland to find and record shows that suit her tastes—is part of a new breed of people who are filtering, shaping and even creating media for themselves. They are increasingly turning their backs on the established system of mass media that has provided news and entertainment for the past half-century. They’ve joined the exploding " iMedia" revolution, putting the power of media in the hands of ordinary people.
The tools of the movement consist of a bubbling stew of new technologies that include iPods, blogs, podcasts, DVRs, customized online newspapers, and satellite radio.
Devotees of iMedia run the gamut(范围)from the 89-year-old New York grandmother, known as Bubby, who has taken up blogging to share her worldly advice, to 11-year-old Dylan Verdi of Texas, who has started broadcasting her own homemade TV show or " vlog" , for video web log. In between are countless iMedia enthusiasts like Rogier van Bakel, 44, of Maine, who blogs at night, reads a Web-customized news page in the morning, travels with his fully loaded iPod and comes home to watch whatever the DVR has chosen for him.
If the old media model was broadcasting, this new phenomenon might be called ego-casting, says Christine Rosen, a fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The term fits, she says, because the trend is all about me-me-media—" the idea is to get exactly what you want, when and where you want it. "
Rosen and others trace the beginnings of the iMedia revolution to the invention of the TV remote, which marked the first subtle shift of media control away from broadcasters and into the hands of the average couch potato. It enabled viewers to vote with their thumbs—making it easier to abandon dull programs and avoid commercials. With the proliferation(激增)of cable TV channels in the late 1980s followed by the mid-1990s arrival of the Internet, controlling media input wasn’t just a luxury. "Control has become a necessity," says Bill Rose. "Without it, there’s no way to sort through all the options that are becoming available. "
Why was the invention of the TV remote important according to the passage?
选项
A、Because it enabled ordinary people to control media to some extent.
B、Because it made more cable TV channels available to people.
C、Because it led to the invention of Internet in the 1990s.
D、Because it made life easier for couch potatoes.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。本题考查对段落的理解。最后一段第一句指出,电视遥控器标志着媒体的掌控权从广播者手里转移到普通电视迷手里的第一个微小改变,由此不难推断出电视遥控的出现使人们或多或少地拥有了媒体的掌控权,A)与此相符,故为答案。文中虽然提到了电视频道的增加和互联网的发明,但并没有说明原因,因此B)“遥控器使人们能够接收到更多的频道”和C)“导致了20世纪90年代互联网的发明”没有依据,故排除;D)“使电视迷的生活更加方便”,根据常识来说并没有错,但这并不是文中所讲的电视遥控的重要性所在,故排除。
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