首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
When a housewife in a working-class district of Mexico City gets fed up with the lack of working lights in her local park, she l
When a housewife in a working-class district of Mexico City gets fed up with the lack of working lights in her local park, she l
admin
2015-01-31
22
问题
When a housewife in a working-class district of Mexico City gets fed up with the lack of working lights in her local park, she logs on to Twitter and complains directly to the city’s mayor.
In an age of incessant digital chat—and in a city of 22 million—this might seem futile. But the mayor, who has more than 600,000 Twitter followers, replies to her complaint within hours. He orders the city’s public works department to take action. Several weeks later, he posts photos of new lights being installed in the park and thanks the woman for bringing the problem to his attention.
In fact, the mayor’ s Twitter feed reads like a chronicle of life in a metropolis. There are complaints and announcements about garbage collection, crime, traffic lights, construction delays etc. At first glance, it looks like a strange mix of unedited rants by aggravated citizens and upbeat public relations by an ambitious mayor. But a sustained look shows that a surprising number of these virtual conversations follow a cycle— citizen complains, mayor listens, city solves the problem—that until recently would have seemed impossible for an overpopulated and underfinanced metropolis in the developing world.
In Latin America, Mexico City is not unique. Use of social media is growing at a breathtaking pace across the region. When Facebook passed the 1 billion user mark in October, few people noticed that 19 percent of those users live in Latin America(which only accounts for 8 percent of the world’s population). The governments of virtually all large Latin American cities now use social media to engage with citizens, and smaller cities are quickly following suit. The Inter-American Development Bank recently found that social media is used by governments in 70 percent of the region’s 140 "emerging cities"(those having 100,000 to 2 million residents and above-average economic growth rates).
Although the press has focused on Latin American presidents who have embraced social media as a potent new channel for old-fashioned political communications, something very different is happening at the municipal level.
Mayors seem to be betting that by micromanaging urban issues via Twitter or Facebook, they will give voters concrete evidence of their effectiveness in office. This is a risky tactic, of course. Many local governments that find it easy to virtually "engage" with constituents may not have the budgets, the organization, or the staff to actually solve the problems that generate complaints. The result, in that case, could be a voter backlash enlarged, ironically, over the same social media channels.
I predict that social media will have a highly disruptive but largely positive effect in this context. These technologies will give new vitality to the ancient ideals of participation and accountability.
How many emerging cities’ governments have used social media?
选项
A、96
B、97
C、98
D、99
答案
C
解析
推断题。本题考查的是有多少个城市的政府用社交网络处理问题,可以定位到文中The Inter-American Development Bank recently found that social media isused by governments in 70 percent of the region’s 140“emerging cities”(those having100,000 to 2 million residents and above-average economic growth rates),从这里我们可以推到出答案应是140x 70%,所以应该是98个城市。因此,正确答案是C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/fBOFFFFM
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
ImprovingthebalancebetweentheworkingpartofthedayandtherestofitisagoalofagrowingnumberofworkersinrichWe
随机试题
2001年12月,美国克莱顿公司向我国某海事法院起诉,根据其对我国巴林顿公司货轮“明星号”享有的货款抵押权求偿。经法院调查,“明星号”是我国巴林顿公司从英国租用的一艘在利比亚登记并挂利比亚国旗的光船。我国该海事法院在处理该案时,应适用下列哪一法律?( )
某工程预计工期10个月,施工合同价款为600万元人民币。根据《建筑工程施工许可管理办法》的规定,建设单位在申请领取施工许可证时,应当到位的资金原则上不得少于()万元人民币。
根据《建设工程质量管理条例》,下列选项中,( )符合勘察、设计单位质量责任和义务的规定。
下列公式中错误的是()
甲公司为乙公司的母公司,2014年3月31日发生如下业务,甲公司以500万元的价格将其生产的产品销售给乙公司,其销售成本为350万元。乙公司购买该产品作为管理用固定资产使用。乙公司对该固定资产按3年的使用期限采用年限平均法计提折旧,预计净残值为0。乙公司在
方针目标管理通过PDCA循环,以()相结合的经济责任制为考核手段,确保方针目标管理全过程的实现。
甲、乙两地点之间有三条道路相连。某地理活动小组测绘了这三条道路的纵向剖面图(图3)。在对应的地形图上可以看出()。
悉尼歌剧院的设计者是()人。
简述民事法律关系。[中山大学2016年研]
并行数据库系统中,对关系进行划分并把它们分布到多个磁盘,所采用的主要技术有3种:轮转法、散列分布和【】。
最新回复
(
0
)