Dan and Alice talk about an experiment at Bournemouth University in England to see how students react if they don't use any media for 24 hours. The people who volunteered were asked to unplug their media devices, such as laptops, phones and TVs for a full day.
This week's question:
How many active Facebook users are there in the world? Is it:
a) 300 million
b) 500 million
c) 800 million
Listen out for the answer in the programme.
Listen
Media Blackout
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Vocabulary
- media blackout
a ban on all media or making media unavailable
- unplugged
disconnected (from all media devices)
- guinea pig
someone who takes part in a new experiment or test
- mental well-being
a person's emotional health or how someone feels
- overeating
eating too much food
- isolated
lonely or detached from other people
- disconnected
lonely or detached from other people
- long-term effects
changes that last for a long time
- waking hours
the time when we're awake
