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    Sherry Turkle is correct when saying social media is corroding the real community. Social media is broadening our connections‚ but making them shallower. Social media gives people a false sense of belonging and connection. As Sherry Turkle pointed out‚ technology “offers us three gratifying fantasies. One‚ that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; two‚ that we will always be heard; and three‚ that we will never have to be alone. And that third idea‚ that we will never have to be alone

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    RR #4 Adam Gopnik Born in 1959 Adam Gopnik graduated from McGrill University and later became a staff writer for the New Yorker. In his article he illustrates the three types of people and there manner in contemplation towards the internet. The “Never-Betters” those who welcome change and think it will make the world a more desirable place. The “Better-Nevers” who believe that if things are going smoothly‚ why change it? That‚ in this case‚ the internet should never have been. Finally‚ we have

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    Gladstone and Josh Neufeld’s article entitled The Influencing Machine (2011) and Nicholas Carr’s article entitled Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008)‚ each author examines how technology affects the way we communicate with others and the way we think. Turkle writes about how we are choosing our phones over people and losing out on face-to-face communication‚ Gladstone and Neufeld discuss echo chambers and how we can easily block out thoughts we don’t like‚ and Carr talks about how skim reading on the

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    In “Caging of America‚” written by Adam Gopnik is an outline of everything that is wrong with the mass incarceration problem in America. We have come so reliant on methods that do not work that we have become blind to the effects it has on prisoners. We believe have set up a successful model to handle mass incarceration‚ in addition to our miss guided belief that we have fixed a problem. To say nothing of the treatment of prisoner locked in a virtual mindless existence trying to escape the “Groundhogs

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    Final Draft: Slater vs Turkle How can Turkle’s concept of “authenticity” help us see Slater in a new way? Both face-to-face interaction and social networking sites (including Myspace‚ Twitter‚ and Facebook) are forms of staying in contact with friends and family. While Nora from Turkle’s “Alone together” communicates her engagement and wedding date via email to her closest friends and family‚ she could have easily announced it face-to-face‚ at a party or through a Facebook event. While

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    article‚ “Connectivity and Its Discontents”‚ Sherry Turkle illustrates how our attitude about technology in addition to technology itself affects our interpersonal relationships. Ms. Turkle argues that although these online connections began as a simple alternative for when face-to-face communication was inconvenient‚ they’re now serving the complete opposite purpose; “Technology makes it easy to communicate when we wish and to disengage at will” (Turkle‚ para. 1). As previously mentioned‚ what was initially

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    In Reclaiming Conversation‚ the chapter “Friendship” by Sherry Turkle explains how digital technology harms communication over the years because people now care about the media and not communicating with friends. Turkle also states that because digital technology is the main concern and not communicating with friends‚ people are starting to lack empathy. Empathy is defined as the capacity to put yourself in the place of another person and trying to understand what other people are going through.

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    family is always facing one another. Working parents tend to spend less quality time with their children because of work demand. In modern America there’s more responsibilities that have to be taken cared of. Now‚ there is no time to time to waste. Gopnik worries about his daughter’s imaginary friend by writing‚ “I was concerned‚ though‚ that Charlie Ravioli might also be the sign of some “trauma‚” some loneliness in Olivia’s life reflected in imaginary form” (154).  Olivia who is just a three-year-old

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    harmonic relationship which is difficult to achieve in the modern society of the “robot moment”. Sherry Turkle‚ in the article “ Alone together”‚ argues

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    In the introduction to her book‚ The “Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude” (2001)‚ Sherry Turkle‚ an MIT professor suggest that the online personas have negative effects on the growth of a healthy individual‚ healthy relationships‚ and a healthy community. The technology itself and the online personas provide the society a troubling effect. She gives her readers a list of effects in the opening passage. Then‚ she looks at two examples‚ the technological devices‚ and online

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