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From the Ted Talk by Clay Shirky: How social media can make history

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I want to talk about the transformed midea laacnsdpe, and what it means for anybody who has a meagsse that they want to get out to anywhere in the world. And I want to illustrate that by telling a couple of stories about that transformation.

I'll sartt here. Last November there was a presidential election. You probably read something about it in the papers. And there was some concern that in some parts of the country there might be voter suppression. And so a plan came up to video the vote. And the idea was that individual citizens with phones cpalbae of taking photos or mnikag video would document their polling pelcas, on the lokuoot for any kind of voter suppression techniques, and would upload this to a central place. And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation — that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes, but also to help ensure the sanctity of the vote overall.

Open Cloze


I want to talk about the transformed _____ _________, and what it means for anybody who has a _______ that they want to get out to anywhere in the world. And I want to illustrate that by telling a couple of stories about that transformation.

I'll _____ here. Last November there was a presidential election. You probably read something about it in the papers. And there was some concern that in some parts of the country there might be voter suppression. And so a plan came up to video the vote. And the idea was that individual citizens with phones _______ of taking photos or ______ video would document their polling ______, on the _______ for any kind of voter suppression techniques, and would upload this to a central place. And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation — that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes, but also to help ensure the sanctity of the vote overall.

Solution


  1. lookout
  2. capable
  3. places
  4. message
  5. landscape
  6. media
  7. making
  8. start

Original Text


I want to talk about the transformed media landscape, and what it means for anybody who has a message that they want to get out to anywhere in the world. And I want to illustrate that by telling a couple of stories about that transformation.

I'll start here. Last November there was a presidential election. You probably read something about it in the papers. And there was some concern that in some parts of the country there might be voter suppression. And so a plan came up to video the vote. And the idea was that individual citizens with phones capable of taking photos or making video would document their polling places, on the lookout for any kind of voter suppression techniques, and would upload this to a central place. And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation — that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes, but also to help ensure the sanctity of the vote overall.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
media landscape 6
great firewall 3
obama campaign 3
voter suppression 2
creating conversations 2
creating groups 2
printing press 2
twentieth century 2
big change 2
geological survey 2
pointing people 2
school buildings 2
affect people 2
crazy change 2
media environment 2


Important Words


  1. capable
  2. cast
  3. central
  4. citizen
  5. citizens
  6. concern
  7. country
  8. couple
  9. document
  10. election
  11. ensure
  12. idea
  13. illustrate
  14. individual
  15. kind
  16. landscape
  17. lookout
  18. making
  19. means
  20. media
  21. message
  22. november
  23. observation
  24. operate
  25. papers
  26. parts
  27. phones
  28. photos
  29. place
  30. places
  31. plan
  32. polling
  33. presidential
  34. read
  35. sanctity
  36. start
  37. stories
  38. suppression
  39. talk
  40. techniques
  41. telling
  42. transformation
  43. transformed
  44. upload
  45. video
  46. vote
  47. voter
  48. votes
  49. world