Pre-class worksheet

Task 1. You are going to watch a video about the ways social media is influencing our emotions. What do you think might be the connection between social media and human emotions?

Task 2. Watch the video and check your ideas. Then tick the emotions the speaker mentions.

warmth

irritation

anticipation

happiness

excitement

empathy

Task 3. Watch the video again and mark the following sentences as true or false.

1. The speaker considers Facebook's six reaction features to be innovative because it let people express empathy.

2. Pepper was trained to recognize more than 60 different facial and neck architectural features, but it was a ridiculous invention because Pepper failed to tell what emotions someone was feeling.

3. The timeline and the news feeds are structured badly when it comes to emotions.

4. There are algorithms on social media that make us more emotionally vulnerable.

5. We get a little hit of dopamine when we're waiting for something and then see or get it.