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Q4037187 Inglês
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New research unveils the "dark side" of social media influencers and their impact on marketing and consumer behaviour

Social media influencers (SMIs) pose psychological, health and security risks and need tighter regulation, a new study finds.

SMIs have revolutionised marketing, shaping consumer behaviour, brand strategies, and even societal norms. However, new research exposes a lesser-known side of influencer culture, one that raises ethical, psychological, and regulatory concerns.

A recent study by the University of Portsmouth systematically examines the negative impacts of SMIs, highlighting issues such as misinformation, endorsement of dangerous products, unrealistic beauty standards, the fostering of a comparison culture, deceptive consumption, and privacy risks.

With influencer marketing projected to reach an estimated $480 billion by 2027, companies increasingly rely on SMIs to promote products and foster consumer trust.

A Digital Marketing Institute (2024) survey found that 60 per cent of consumers trust influencer recommendations, with nearly half of all purchasing decisions being influenced by these endorsements. However, as influencer culture grows, so do concerns about its unintended consequences. 

Many SMIs act as opinion leaders or experts within their respective areas, frequently reviewing products and leveraging their authority, expertise, or relationships with followers to influence purchasing decisions. Some inspire and entertain; others deceive and upset. The deception and damage, and their impact on consumption, need to be carefully regulated.

Yuksel Ekinci, Professor of Marketing and Sales at the University of Portsmouth

The paper, published in Psychology and Marketing, warns power of SMIs is creating a worrying consumer landscape. Unlike traditional celebrities, whose fame is typically rooted in institutional settings - such as acting, music, or sports - SMIs gain recognition through social media platforms, often relying on personal branding and consistent engagement with their audiences.

Yuksel Ekinci, Professor of Marketing and Sales at the University of Portsmouth, said: "Many SMIs act as opinion leaders or experts within their respective areas, frequently reviewing products and leveraging their authority, expertise, or relationships with followers to influence purchasing decisions. Some inspire and entertain; others deceive and upset. The deception and damage, and their impact on consumption, need to be carefully regulated."

This study organises the negative aspects of influencer marketing into six key themes:

1. Promotion of harmful products − SMIs often endorse unhealthy or dangerous products such as diet pills, detox teas, and alcohol without full disclosure, influencing consumption habits, particularly among younger audiences.

2. Dissemination of misinformation − many influencers, despite lacking expertise, spread false information about health, politics, and social issues, leading to widespread disinformation.

3. Reinforcement of unrealistic beauty standards − by presenting filtered and curated images, influencers contribute to body dissatisfaction, low self-esteem, and harmful beauty practices.

4. Fostering of comparison culture − influencer-driven content fuels lifestyle envy and social anxiety, leading to negative self-comparison and diminished wellbeing.

5. Deceptive consumption practices − some influencers engage in unethical behaviours such as undisclosed sponsorships, promotion of counterfeit goods, and misleading advertisements, undermining consumer trust.

6. Privacy concerns − the extensive data collection and sharing by influencers raise significant security and regulatory issues, posing risks for both influencers and followers.

Social media influencers hold immense power over consumer decisions and cultural norms. While they provide entertainment, inspiration, and brand engagement, the unchecked influence of some SMIs can lead to serious ethical and psychological consequences. Our study highlights the urgency for both academic and industry stakeholders to address these challenges proactively.

Dr Georgia Buckle, Research Fellow in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth

The study calls for more stringent oversight, increased transparency, and ethical marketing strategies to mitigate these risks. Researchers suggest the following strategies for policymakers and marketeers:

Transparency and ethical compliance: brands must enforce clear disclosure policies to ensure responsible influencer partnerships. 

• Regulation and consumer protection: governments should strengthen policies on influencer marketing to prevent deceptive practices and misinformation. 

• Mental health awareness: companies and influencers must prioritize authentic content that promotes well-being rather than unattainable ideals. 

• Data privacy protections: stronger safeguards and awareness campaigns are needed to protect users from privacy breaches and data exploitation.

Dr Georgia Buckle, Research Fellow in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the University of Portsmouth, said: "Social media influencers hold immense power over consumer decisions and cultural norms. While they provide entertainment, inspiration, and brand engagement, the unchecked influence of some SMIs can lead to serious ethical and psychological consequences. Our study highlights the urgency for both academic and industry stakeholders to address these challenges proactively."

This research offers a critical framework for analysing influencer culture beyond its commercial benefits, emphasising the need for ethical marketing practices and a healthier digital ecosystem.


https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/new-research-unv eils-the-dark-side-of-social-media-influencers-and-their-impact-on-mark eting-and-consumer-behaviour
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"Unlike traditional celebrities, whose fame is typically rooted in institutional settings - such as acting, music, or sports - SMIs gain recognition through social media platforms, often relying on personal branding and consistent engagement with their audiences."

An English teacher preparing advanced reading comprehension activities for upper-intermediate students identifies this sentence as exemplifying complex syntactic structures that warrant explicit instruction. When analyzing the sentence's grammatical architecture, discourse function, and pedagogical implications for teaching academic English reading skills, particularly focusing on contrastive constructions and non-restrictive relative clauses embedded within comparative frameworks, the teacher should recognize that:
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Q4034375 Inglês
Digital archeology

The City Gallery presents Filip Popov with his exhibition "Digital Archeology"

With a large exhibition, including works from his most famous cycles, the visual artist Filip Popov will exhibit in the Hall "2019" at 32 Gladstone Street from March 2 to 31.

For the first time the artist makes such a large-scale performance in the city where he was born.

The opening will be on March 2 from 17:00 to 19:30.

The topics that excite the author of the exhibition "Digital Archeology" can be deciphered in the titles of the series of works created over the past 8 years: TransOrganic, Para Bellum, Order, Posthuman, Paleomatic Monologues and Prayers to the latest series - Bunker City and Zero City. As Velizara Ivanova emphasizes in her analysis:

Combining works dating back to 2014, Digital Archeology reflects Philip Popov's continuing focus on the posthumanism and transhumanism, confronting technology and our uncertain future and insight into the way machines are woven into our tomorrow's world. "

Born in 1964 in Plovdiv, Filip Popov spent several years of his childhood in Germany, where he formed his ideas for unity between art, architecture, design and technology. He studied art at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, moved to Basel to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule, and later lived in Zurich.

He has had solo exhibitions at EASA, West Berlin (1988), EKG, Wetzikon, CH (1993), Binz Foundation 39, Zurich (1994), Kunsthalle Liesthal, CH (1996), ArtFront Gallery, Tokyo (2005). It is presented in the most famous galleries in Sofia and the country. In 2014 he participated in the National Autumn Exhibitions in Plovdiv. Filip Popov exhibits his works in numerous group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, France.


https://www.visitplovdiv.com/en/node/10577
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"Combining works dating back to 2014, Digital Archeology reflects Philip Popov's continuing focus on the posthumanism and transhumanism, confronting technology and our uncertain future and insight into the way machines are woven into our tomorrow's world."
A linguistics professor analyzing this sentence identifies several grammatical and stylistic issues that impact comprehension and translation. Regarding syntactic ambiguity, punctuation problems, and parallelism in coordinate structures, which analysis demonstrates the most sophisticated understanding of the sentence's linguistic problems?
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Q4034373 Inglês
Digital archeology

The City Gallery presents Filip Popov with his exhibition "Digital Archeology"

With a large exhibition, including works from his most famous cycles, the visual artist Filip Popov will exhibit in the Hall "2019" at 32 Gladstone Street from March 2 to 31.

For the first time the artist makes such a large-scale performance in the city where he was born.

The opening will be on March 2 from 17:00 to 19:30.

The topics that excite the author of the exhibition "Digital Archeology" can be deciphered in the titles of the series of works created over the past 8 years: TransOrganic, Para Bellum, Order, Posthuman, Paleomatic Monologues and Prayers to the latest series - Bunker City and Zero City. As Velizara Ivanova emphasizes in her analysis:

Combining works dating back to 2014, Digital Archeology reflects Philip Popov's continuing focus on the posthumanism and transhumanism, confronting technology and our uncertain future and insight into the way machines are woven into our tomorrow's world. "

Born in 1964 in Plovdiv, Filip Popov spent several years of his childhood in Germany, where he formed his ideas for unity between art, architecture, design and technology. He studied art at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, moved to Basel to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule, and later lived in Zurich.

He has had solo exhibitions at EASA, West Berlin (1988), EKG, Wetzikon, CH (1993), Binz Foundation 39, Zurich (1994), Kunsthalle Liesthal, CH (1996), ArtFront Gallery, Tokyo (2005). It is presented in the most famous galleries in Sofia and the country. In 2014 he participated in the National Autumn Exhibitions in Plovdiv. Filip Popov exhibits his works in numerous group exhibitions in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, France.


https://www.visitplovdiv.com/en/node/10577
Regarding the morphological and syntactic structures in the text "Digital Archeology," judge the statements below.

I.The compound noun "posthumanism" in the phrase "Philip Popov's continuing focus on the posthumanism and transhumanism" exhibits derivational morphology through the prefix "post-" (meaning after/beyond) attached to the base "humanism," creating a philosophical term denoting ideology beyond traditional humanism, and this word formation process exemplifies productive morphological patterns in academic and philosophical English vocabulary.

II.The prepositional phrase "from 2014" in "Combining works dating back to 2014" functions as a temporal adjunct modifying the present participle "dating," and the phrasal verb "dating back to" is a three-word intransitive phrasal verb meaning to originate or have existed since a particular time, commonly used in historical and chronological contexts.

III.The relative clause "where he was born" in "the city where he was born" is a restrictive (defining) relative clause that specifies which city is being referenced, using the relative adverb "where" to indicate location, and this construction could be alternatively expressed as "in which he was born" with preposition fronting, though "where" is more natural and commonly preferred in spoken and written English.


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Q4034369 Inglês

Cold Kimchi Tomato Bibim Noodles





Ingredients

For the sauce

 3 tablespoons tomato paste

 2 tablespoons gochujang

 1 teaspoon kosher salt

 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil

 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

 3 tablespoons kimchi juice

 1 tablespoon honey

 1 cup chopped kimchi

For the noodles

150 grams somen noodles

For the toppings

 2 Persian cucumbers, sliced into matchsticks

 1 shallot, minced

 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved

 2 soft-boiled eggs (7 minutes, jammy yolks)

 4 radishes, thinly sliced

To finish

Extra sesame oil, for drizzling

 2 tablespoons furikake

Handful of cilantro

Directions

•Step 1


Make the sauce: In a medium bowl, whisk together the tomato paste, gochujang, salt, sesame oil, vinegar, kimchi juice, and honey until smooth. Stir in the chopped kimchi until evenly coated.

•Step 2 

Cook the noodles: Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil. Add the somen noodles and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until just tender. Drain and rinse under cold water until completely cooled, then shake off excess water.

•Step 3

Toss together: Add the chilled noodles to the sauce bowl. Using tongs, gently mix until each strand is coated in the kimchi-gochujang sauce. 

•Step 4

Assemble: Divide the noodles between bowls. Top with cucumbers, shallot, tomatoes, soft-boiled eggs, and radishes. 

•Step 5

Finish & serve: Drizzle with a little extra sesame oil, sprinkle with furikake, and top with cilantro. Mix everything together at the table before eating.



https://food52.com/recipes/cold-kimchi-tomato-bibim-noodles
Consider the following pedagogical scenario:
An English teacher planning a lesson for Brazilian high school students using this recipe as authentic material wants to analyze the syntactic complexity and verb phrase structures to assess text difficulty level and design appropriate scaffolding activities. Examining sentences like "Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil," "Stir in the chopped kimchi until evenly coated," and "Using tongs, gently mix until each strand is coated," the teacher conducts a syntactic analysis focusing on verb phrase types, clause structures, and non-finite constructions. Regarding the syntactic features that impact text difficulty and pedagogical implications for supporting reading comprehension among intermediate EFL learners, which analysis is syntactically and pedagogically accurate?
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Q4034364 Inglês

Cold Kimchi Tomato Bibim Noodles





Ingredients

For the sauce

 3 tablespoons tomato paste

 2 tablespoons gochujang

 1 teaspoon kosher salt

 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil

 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

 3 tablespoons kimchi juice

 1 tablespoon honey

 1 cup chopped kimchi

For the noodles

150 grams somen noodles

For the toppings

 2 Persian cucumbers, sliced into matchsticks

 1 shallot, minced

 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved

 2 soft-boiled eggs (7 minutes, jammy yolks)

 4 radishes, thinly sliced

To finish

Extra sesame oil, for drizzling

 2 tablespoons furikake

Handful of cilantro

Directions

•Step 1


Make the sauce: In a medium bowl, whisk together the tomato paste, gochujang, salt, sesame oil, vinegar, kimchi juice, and honey until smooth. Stir in the chopped kimchi until evenly coated.

•Step 2 

Cook the noodles: Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil. Add the somen noodles and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until just tender. Drain and rinse under cold water until completely cooled, then shake off excess water.

•Step 3

Toss together: Add the chilled noodles to the sauce bowl. Using tongs, gently mix until each strand is coated in the kimchi-gochujang sauce. 

•Step 4

Assemble: Divide the noodles between bowls. Top with cucumbers, shallot, tomatoes, soft-boiled eggs, and radishes. 

•Step 5

Finish & serve: Drizzle with a little extra sesame oil, sprinkle with furikake, and top with cilantro. Mix everything together at the table before eating.



https://food52.com/recipes/cold-kimchi-tomato-bibim-noodles
Regarding morphosyntactic structures and verb phrase analysis in the recipe "Cold Kimchi Tomato Bibim Noodles," judge the statements below.

I.The phrasal verb "shake off" in "shake off excess water" consists of a transitive separable phrasal verb where "shake" functions as the lexical verb and "off" as an adverbial particle modifying the verb's meaning to indicate removal or elimination, and this construction could be paraphrased as "remove by shaking" without significant semantic loss.

II.The passive voice construction "until each strand is coated" demonstrates a grammatical transformation from an active equivalent "until the sauce coats each strand," where the patient (each strand) becomes the syntactic subject while the agent (sauce) is demoted or omitted, and this passivization serves the rhetorical function of maintaining focus on the noodles rather than the sauce throughout the instructional sequence.

III.The temporal subordinate clause "until completely cooled" in "rinse under cold water until completely cooled" exhibits ellipsis of the subject and auxiliary verb, with the complete structure being "until [the noodles are] completely cooled," and this syntactic reduction represents a common feature of procedural discourse where redundant elements are omitted for brevity and efficiency.


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Q3969212 Inglês
Within the extended syntactical sequence Vainly, with the verse of the more inventive poets, the fanciful purple-threaded fabrics of the subtlest looms, the unfamiliar gems and minerals from the uttermost land (l.20–23), the function of the prepositional phrase "with the verse of the more inventive poets" is best described as:

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Q3902513 Inglês
Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100


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The sentences “Despite Woolf’s refusal to compromise with mainstream tastes, Mrs Dalloway was well received.” and “As Woolf’s characters go about their day, scenes and impressions are filtered through their individual consciousnesses…” contain, respectively, a/an
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Q3902510 Inglês
Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100


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The sentences “It follows ordinary people through ordinary activities on an ordinary day…” and “…she splendidly undoes the Victorian conception of plot.” contain, respectively, a/an
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Q3902509 Inglês
Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100


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The sentence “… I devoured Woolf’s revolutionary 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, which criticised the educational, economic and social constraints ...” contains a/an
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Q3902508 Inglês
Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100


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The sentences “She could write whatever she wanted…” and “Her metaphor shows that Woolf’s thinking about time also had a spatial dimension.” contain, respectively, a/an
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Q3902507 Inglês
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The sentence “Characters pass each other on the street, muse on a shared past, or witness the same event from different vantage points and through different filters of personality and psyche.” is
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Q3902506 Inglês
Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100


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The sentence “Woolf’s novel was revolutionary for its depiction of same-sex attraction and mental illness, as well as for its challenge to the novel form and representation of time.” is
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Q3895078 Inglês
The noun phrase is an essential component of sentence structure in English. Analyze the following statements about the components of the noun phrase "My two new students":

I. "My" is a possessive pronoun that indicates possession.
II. "Two" is a cardinal number that quantifies the noun.
III. "New" is an adjective that qualifies the noun.

The correct statements are:
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Q3891721 Inglês
In the sentence, "Although it was raining, we decided to go for a walk," identify the type of clause underlined: "Although it was raining".  
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Q3891720 Inglês
In the following sentence, "She patiently explained the complex grammar rule," identify the grammatical role of the phrase "the complex grammar rule". 
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Q3889316 Inglês

Analyze the following excerpt from a song:


With one person

One very special person

A feeling deep in your soul

Says you were half, now you're whole

No more hunger and thirst

But first, be a person WHO NEEDS PEOPLE

People who need people

Are the luckiest people in the world.


(Available: https://www.letras.mus.br/barbra-streisand/92902/. Access in: September, 2025.)



It is true about the highlighted verse: 

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Q3848428 Inglês
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Driven by pre-salt, oil becomes Brazil's top export

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The discovery of the pre-salt was so significant for Brazil's oil production potential that it led the government to change the regime that authorized companies to explore the submerged resources.

As a result, the pre-salt areas are governed by the sharing regime. Under this model, surplus oil production—the balance after covering costs—is divided between the company and the Brazilian government. During the auction that authorizes exploration, the company offering the highest share of profits to the federal government is granted the right to explore.

This is distinct from the concession model, which applies to the post-salt period. In this system, the risk of investment and exploration lies with the concessionaire, who becomes the owner of all the oil and gas that may be discovered. In return, the company pays royalties and special participation fees, particularly for large production fields, in addition to a signature bonus upon winning the auction.

New frontiers

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With the pre-salt expected to reach its peak in the 2030s, Brazil's oil industry, led by Petrobras, is shifting its focus to new oil frontiers that are believed to hold significant production potential.

One such frontier is the so-called equatorial margin, located off Brazil's northern coast, where exploration is pending a favorable decision from the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), an agency under the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

Another promising region is the Pelotas Basin, located off Brazil's southern coast. The growing interest in this area is fueled by the discovery of oil wells in Uruguay and off the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. Experts suggest that the geological conditions in these regions are similar, as the continents were once joined tens of millions of years ago.

According to Petrobras, the company plans to invest $79 billion in exploring new oil and gas frontiers by 2029. Of this amount, 40 percent will be allocated to the South and Southeast regions, 38 percent to the equatorial margin, with the remainder directed towards other countries.


From MOURA, Bruno de Freitas. Driven by pre-salt, oil becomes Brazil's top export. Rio de Janeiro, Agência Brasil, Jan 18th,2025. Accessed on February 21st, 2025 
Verb +ing can be used as an adjective, as a progressive verb, a noun and an adverb, like in the examples: the winning team, I'm taking my brother to the airport tonight, People make a good living by local standards and She ran out of the room crying, respectively. The extract that presents the −ing form as an adverb is: 
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Q3845347 Inglês

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Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon, by Mike Peters

In Mr. Big Oil's last statement: Solar and Wind isn't feasible there is a different use of subject and verb agreement, such as in:
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Q3845344 Inglês

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Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon, by Mike Peters

The questions Mr. Oil Company asked Ralph: You want coal? You want oil and gas? You want nuclear energy? You want solar or wind power? are acceptable forms in colloquial English. In standard English, however, the word order of those sentences is applied for the affirmatives. The option with the correct interrogative word order is:
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Q3845270 Inglês

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Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon, by Mike Peters 

The questions Mr. Oil Company asked Ralph: You want coal? You want oil and gas? You want nuclear energy? You want solar or wind power? are acceptable forms in colloquial English. In standard English, however, the word order of those sentences is applied for the affirmatives. The option with the correct interrogative word order is: 
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121: B
122: A
123: D
124: D
125: B
126: C
127: C
128: C
129: B
130: B
131: A
132: C
133: D
134: C
135: A
136: A
137: D
138: B
139: D
140: D