White Noise By Jennifer Fisher Summary

In this article “living and learning in a World of ‘White Noise’ Jennifer Fisher interprets the meaning in the novel “White Noise” and discusses how Don DeLillo conveys the message that technology is taking over lives within the youth and directly affecting the education system. Fisher comments on how the education system is failing the new generation of technology driven youth where the intellectuals are not able to deliver them the ability for think and act responsibly. Fisher discusses how the ‘modernizing’ of the world today is the cause of the University failing at its main duty, which is to teach students valuable information. It is now being taken over by the media and “celebrity culture” as fisher states. It is losing the ability to connect and teach responsible thinking and acting to the new wave of youth who are becoming increasingly ‘technosized’.
In Fishers interpretation of “White Noise” she discusses how the new age of people who are privileged enough to own and be surrounded by technology and devices are so connected to them that they don’t realize how dependent they have become, because everyone else around them is
With these attributes, per Bauerlein they have no interest in education and becoming socially aware because of technology taking over their lives. This theory itself is controversial because according to another scholar Marc Prensky who believes that millennials have the opportunity to become the smartest generation because they have a plethora of information at their fingertips to you at any opportunity that need it. The “digital Natives” as Prensky refers to them as, are much more connected therefore can be more socially, intellectually and socially minded than other