9. Read the following article and say how you have understood modern term “cewebrity”. Render the article. Cewebrity

The artist Andy Warhol famously said that he thought everybody would be famous for fifteen minutes, and with the increasing power of the Internet, that’s more true today than ever. Anybody with an Internet connection and a computer can now become a cewebrity.

A cewebrity is somebody who is only, or perhaps mostly famous through their presence on the Internet, an Internet personality who crosses over to the mainstream. A web celebrity.

As people rely on the Internet more and more for their entertainment needs, it is becoming increasingly attractive as a platform for new writing, music, film, and art. The writer Stephen King has published books only on the Internet and some musicians get a recording contract through the popularity they build up on the web.

Recently an American newspaper, the Seattle PI [Post-Intelligencer] decided to abandon its paper copy and only publish online. As its audience grows, the Internet is becoming more powerful in making people famous, and some videos which are posted on the Internet become incredibly popular, being seen by millions of people in a short space of time. This is an age where a video of someone dancing and pretending to sing a famous song can get them an appearance on TV shows and magazines. It’s an age of cewebrity!

10. Speak about the Internet.

11. Extra activity. Solve the following cross-word puzzle.

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The clues:

1. A … name: an internet address that is assigned to different countries and types of organisations.

2. Access to the web that is very fast and enables many messages or large amounts of information to be sent at the same time between computers or other electronic devices.

3. To stop – for example unwanted e-mails.

4. …log – or blog.

5. Searching, looking for, browsing information on the Internet.

6. Somebody who is only, or perhaps mostly famous through their presence on the Internet.

7. Another word for the Internet, specially the space where online communication takes place.

8. Adverts or unwanted messages sent by e-mail.

9. Sir Tim … - Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web.

10. A unit of computer information equal to 1,024 megabytes.

(Answers: 1.domain; 2.broadband; 3.block; 4.web; 5.surfing; 6.cewebrity; 7.cyberspace; 8.spam; 9.Berners; 10. gigabyte)