How Technology Affects Family Interaction
Family Relations
Research Assignment
How Technology Impacts family Interaction
Researched and Written By: Rick Luebbert
Technology has had a profound effect on the modern family. This research paper will explore how technology has a specific impact on the way families interact with each other. The technological advances of home computers and cell phones are just a few of the things that have transformed the way families interact and communicate with one another. Technology will continue to change the landscape of how the modern family networks together. Technology gives us the opportunity to communicate with people around the world through a computer screen as if the person were right in front of you.
Although, this technology makes communicating easier it has negative effects on the families as well. This electronic wave of communicating has been a detriment to the development of certain face to face social skills that children need as they grow up. The vast amount of information that is attainable from the internet and the education and entertainment provided by television are wonderful breakthroughs of applied science that will forever be a part of our lives. These changes have altered the way families interact with one another. Technology effects the communicational interaction in families by impacting the social development of children and the relationship that they share together with their parents and siblings.
I have sat down with and interviewed eight families and asked them about what they observed in the role technology as influenced their social connection with each other. Every family had positive and negative opinions on the issue. When speaking to each family, most of them also spoke about rules and guidelines they would implement to try and prevent any negative impacts that this issue could affect their families. Each family also had many positive things to say about technology’s impact on their family’s ability to communicate and interact with
Research Assignment
How Technology Impacts family Interaction
Researched and Written By: Rick Luebbert
Technology has had a profound effect on the modern family. This research paper will explore how technology has a specific impact on the way families interact with each other. The technological advances of home computers and cell phones are just a few of the things that have transformed the way families interact and communicate with one another. Technology will continue to change the landscape of how the modern family networks together. Technology gives us the opportunity to communicate with people around the world through a computer screen as if the person were right in front of you.
Although, this technology makes communicating easier it has negative effects on the families as well. This electronic wave of communicating has been a detriment to the development of certain face to face social skills that children need as they grow up. The vast amount of information that is attainable from the internet and the education and entertainment provided by television are wonderful breakthroughs of applied science that will forever be a part of our lives. These changes have altered the way families interact with one another. Technology effects the communicational interaction in families by impacting the social development of children and the relationship that they share together with their parents and siblings.
I have sat down with and interviewed eight families and asked them about what they observed in the role technology as influenced their social connection with each other. Every family had positive and negative opinions on the issue. When speaking to each family, most of them also spoke about rules and guidelines they would implement to try and prevent any negative impacts that this issue could affect their families. Each family also had many positive things to say about technology’s impact on their family’s ability to communicate and interact with
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