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    In her essay “Virtual Friendship and the New NarcissismChristine Rosen explores and comments on the various ways social networking sites have affected how users interpret and define a relationship. Rosen starts by comparing how our modern day social media pages are no different from the painted portraits of the people from the past. Rather than the painters retouching their work to define an image‚ we now update‚ tweak and post specific things on our “online” self-portraits to display who we are

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    Christine Rosen’s "Virtual Friendships and the New Narcissism" discusses how social networking gives people the power to portray themselves as they like‚ all while online connections are leading to dwindling human connections. Social media is like a self-portrait and users can portray themselves in any manner‚ Rosen says‚"...self-portraits can at once expose and obscure‚ clarify and distort." With the power to create their image‚ users of social networks become more involved online then offline and

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    Social Networking Has No Feeling In “Virtual Friendship an New Narcissism”‚ Christine Rosen says‚ “Today’s online social networks are congeries of mostly weak ties.” With technology and the social network‚ relationships have become impersonal and cold resulting from a lack of feedback because there is little visual communication to understand each other. In today’s society there is little time to actually talk on the phone and have a deep conversation‚ instead there is short abbreviated words

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    Christine Rosen’s essay makes a brilliant point that social networking sites have become the modern equivalent of a self portrait. People post the pictures they want others to see and information that may be flattering to themselves all in order to create a façade to boost their image. The development of social network sites have not just appeared over night; their origins began with a low tech bulletin board system called WELL which was launched in the 1980s but with the years to come more networking

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    Novelist‚ Christine Rosen‚ in her essay‚ “Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism” ridicules the use of online social networking in today’s society. Rosen’s purpose is to convey the idea that‚ online social networking is a dangerous manipulative addiction of self expression that is frankly a waste of time for all of society and a way to segregate your friends. She adopts a bashing tone to appeal to similar feelings and experiences toward her readers. Rosen begins her essay by arguing that we

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    phone use. Not that the cell phones are physical dangerous‚ but a warning of the effects on human behavior. As I began reading the essays “Our Cell Phones‚ Our Selves‚ by Christine Rosen and Disconnected Urbanism by Paul Golderger‚ I knew which direction the authors were heading. Within the first few sentences Christen Rosen‚ talks about how the cell phone is changing our behavior and how we are becoming disconnected with society. The authors achieved their goal by staying on the topic from start

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    work doesn’t get the credibility or recognition that it should‚ because we are so hung on the idea of simple visual representations. In the beginning of an article written by Christine Rosen The Image Culture accounts for visual pictures and images during hurricane Katrina and how our society interpreted the images. As Rosen expresses‚ “The world was offered‚ in a negligible space of time‚ both God’s-eye and man’s-eye views of a devastated region. Within days‚ as pictures of the squalor at the Louisiana

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    technology is highly used as a tool to read. People are lacking the ability to pick-up a book and read. Since laptops and e-readers are commonly used‚ people are constantly being exposed to distractions. In the passage “In the Beginning of the Word‚” Christine Rosen emphasizes on how E-readers are changing the way people read. E-readers impose distractions on the reader’s experience‚ by causing a barrier to disconnect the reader from the reading; books enhance imagination and allow the reader to feel inclusive

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    Tia Yang English 10 Webley January 30‚ 2014 Writing Project #1: Reading Response to “Our Cell Phones‚ Our Selves” by Christine Rosen Part I – Summary or Identifying the Conversation In the section of the book the author talks about how cell phones integrated into our society and how we adapted to using cell phones every day in our lives. The author first talks about how cell phones first came to be and how they evolved over time and became a trend. As we know it‚ today almost everyone has

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    Summary European Legal Governance Chapter 4: Judicial Order Preliminary reference - Domestic courts can ask legal questions to the ECJ concerning EU law - ECJ gives its answer in a judgment On individual level individuals litigate a point of EU law before a national court‚ who decides whether to refer to the ECJ Courts of Justice of the EU shall have jurisdiction to give preliminary rulings concerning: - The interpretation of the Treaties - The validity and interpretation of acts of the institutions

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