Unit 3 Reading Hortatory Exposition Text (Activity 2)

What is the communicative purpose of the text?

• to describe how social media becomes a

  phenomenal emergence

• to discuss the controversy of delivering hate speech on social media

• to convince the readers how dangerous social

  media in internet are

• to inform about the Indonesian Internet Network User Association

• to explain digital literacy for some communities

  in the internet

Why does hate speech on social media platforms may lead to violence?

• Since it is a form of tolerance of other groups of people in an event

• Because it is considered as an attacking sentence only by youngsters

• As it has recently been a form of confusion on social media like twitter

• Because it may initiate the provocation of a certain race or religion

• Since it is the expression of freedom to a particular community

From the text, we may define digital literacy as .......

• the availability and use of digital tools to communicate on the Internet, digital devices, smart devices and other technologies.

• a form of currency that is available only in digital or electronic form called digital or electronic money.

• an individual’s ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information through typing and other media on various digital platforms.

• any communication media that operate with the use of any of various encoded machine-readable data formats.

• the component of marketing that uses the Internet and online based digital technologies promote products and services.

To make a better internet environment, the author suggests that …

• the government makes use of digital literacy in remote areas.

• digital literacy through proper regulation is devised comprehensively.

• digital media need to be dispersed so there won’t be hackers.

• the recent worsening effects of social media on the internet.

• popular social media must be aware of their adverse impacts.

Digital literacy helps reduce the negative effects of social media because ….

• it lets internet users access, sort and understand different information types used to improve their quality of life

• it keeps the popular media voice their perspectives by harming others so that one can’t participate in social life better

• it drives social media influencers to improve their quality of life with better regulations for the digital community

• it leaves common people participate in social life, state and politics by denying their aspirations in any places

• it encourages social media experts to formulate better regulations for merely the digital community in Indonesia

The author states, “However, I am afraid that the flexibility of discussion in social media is implying some negative impacts: the presence and increased intensity of hate speech and insecurity.” in paragraph 1 is to …

• elaborate further information of social media

• reveal the main objective of social media

• develop the idea of having social media

• present the drawbacks of social media

• emphasize the importance of social media