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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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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. "
Who is Terry Wolfisch Cole probably according to the passage?
选项
A、A middle-aged housewife.
B、A saleswoman in the supermarket.
C、A disc presenter.
D、An online news writer.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。本题考查根据文章内容推断人物身份的能力。文章的前两段对特丽·沃尔费什·科尔做了描述:她看起来和普通的40岁的母亲没什么区别,但是逛超市的时候会一边逛一边听她的iPod;在家里,当孩子们都出门之后她就沉浸在另一个媒体工具里了。在四个选项中,只有A)“中年家庭主妇”才有时间做上述的事情,故为答案。文章只提到了她在逛超市,而B)“超市女销售”是不会在超市中闲逛的,故排除;根据第一段的内容可知此段最后一句中提到的disc presenter只是一个比喻,而并不是她的真实身份,故排除C);第二段最后一句确实提到她会把自己日常生活中发生的事情放到网上与大家分享,但是真正的新闻作家不可能只写自己的日常生活,由此可以排除D)。
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