How can we make the web a better place? - 6 Minute English

In this programme, we’ll hear about a new academic subject called Web Science, which studies the technology behind the internet. But from the human side, it’s also interested in how people interact with each other online. So we’ll be asking whether studying Web Science could make the internet better for humanity in the future. Neil and Sam talk about the subject and teach you vocabulary along the way.

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Vocabulary
interdisciplinary
involving two or more academic subjects or areas of knowledge

social media network
website, app or computer programmes, like Facebook and Instagram, allowing people to communicate and share information on the internet using electronic devices

ecosystem
complex pattern of relationships and mutual influences between living things are their environment

public health
system of providing services to improve the standard of health of a country’s general population

does what it says on the tin
does exactly what it is intended to do (informal)

trials
tests carried out over a limited time period, to discover how effective or suitable something is

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