[The Guardian] My sister was found dead. Then I discovered her search history – and the online world that had gripped her
My sister was found dead. Then I discovered her search history – and the online world that had gripped her
Adele Zeynep Walton’s sibling Aimee was a talented artist who loved music. It was only after her death that Walton realised Aimee had been lured into a dangerous community – and that others may also be victims of it
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My sister was found dead. Then I discovered her search history – and the online world that had gripped her
Adele Zeynep Walton’s sibling Aimee was a talented artist who loved music. It was only after her death that Walton realised Aimee had been lured into a dangerous community – and that others may also be victims of it
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Sitting in the garden of her parents’ house in Southampton, Walton explains how she came to write about what had happened. Her book, Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World, is partly the story of her sister, and partly a much broader call to arms to ordinary web-browsing, doom-scrolling, social-media-posting mortals to wake up to the harms that a largely unregulated digital world permits and perpetuates.
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1. 단어
call to arms 행동 촉구, 각성하라는 외침 (직역: 무장하라는 호출)
doom-scrolling 끔찍한 뉴스나 콘텐츠를 계속 스크롤하며 소비하는 습관
wake up to (~에) 눈을 뜨다, 인식하다
perpetuates 지속시키다
2. 요약
Her sister’s death was caused by toxic online communities. These kinds of internet spaces must be controlled or held accountable.