Changling Zhang Basic Composition RP Paper 4 Rough Draft Dr.Carl Nelson 2/4/2015 The Discussion about Technology: Who Decide How to Use It? With the booming of economy and the remarkable improvement of people’s living standard‚ the advanced science and technology become a symbol of society progress. The convenient and efficient high-tech tools have greatly facilitated people’s lives in all aspects. Besides‚ the applications of high-tech products help humans deal with
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Eng 100 Schantz 17 September 2012 Explanatory Summary of “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” In the Stephen Marche’s May 2012 publication in The Atlantic‚ “Is Facebook Making us Lonely”‚ explores the history and usage of social networking along with the most recent theories in order to argue that social networking depends on the user’s motives not‚ social networking itself. Facebook does not create loneliness‚ but it does not exterminate it either. It all depends on ones usage. Marche begins his
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process is quick and automated and doesn’t require us to intentionally activate it‚ so we cant stop theorizing. We tend to mainly notice our theories when they’re wrong. Babies as young as seven months are already theorizing about gravity. Alison Gopnik assumed that the theory drive exists particularly esfor early childhood‚ but functions throughout lives‚ just like sex drive exists precisely for fertile years‚ but works before and after. Although we are good at making
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Internet decreases social contact for three main reasons. Online activities reduce reality communication‚ social applications impair Internet users’ passion for real lives and Internet users might lose their sociability gradually. As Stoll (1995) and Turkle (1996) argued‚ because most of time people one comes cross on the Internet are anonymous strangers‚ and communications are different from facing to a real person‚ instead‚ replaced by computers as medium‚ so such features of the Internet cuts off
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they interact with others. I am examining this question in the context of two paradigms or premises. The first premise that I will examine underneath is a theory that I call the Turklean model. This model is so named from my readings on Sherry Turkle and her book "Life On The Screen". Using this model I examine how the population views themselves. What do they see as their identity in this paradigm and how do they see others?. The second premise I would like to call the Civinian model. The
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Bibliography: Institute of Ideas (2002) Debating Matters- The internet: Brave new world? ‚ Hodder & Stoughton John Dovey (1996) Fractal Dreams-New Media in Social Context‚ London: Laurence & Wishart Sherry Turkle (1995) Life on the screen: Identity in the age of internet‚ New York‚ N.Y. : Touchstone. Myron W.Krueger (1995) Artificial Reality II‚ Addison-Wesley‚ Reading‚ Massachusetts http://www.facebook.com/principles.php http://secondlife.com
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Family and Technology The internet is affecting the way modern families interact with each other in negative ways. Experts are saying that there is a connection between a recent increase in childhood injury and parents being distracted by technology (Worthen). Additionally‚ young children have to compete with technology for their parent’s attention. Children are lacking the important interaction that should be taking place between parent and child. Consequently since children grow up seeing
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Ahmad Marrouch ID#: 12112047 Did you try before to use your extreme imagination? Where did it lead you in the technological field? If you think that “Man in Black” (1997) movie that uses inhuman people in most of its scenes was just an extreme imagination for Barry Sonnenfeld‚ then you are wrong. After the technological and industrial development‚ the term technology has become widely known for most of human beings. While talking about technology‚ you may feel that we are talking about TVs‚ laptops
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As serendipity often strikes randomly‚ I was reading an article in The New York Times by Jenna Wortham the other day at the same time I was reading the chapter in Sherry Turkle’s new book‚ Alone Together about people who fear they are missing out. Teens and adults text while driving‚ because the possibility of a social connection is more important than their own lives (and the lives of others). They interrupt one call to take another‚ even when they don’t know who’s on the other line (but to be
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cellphone owners said they had used their phones during the last social gathering they attended. But they weren’t happy about it; 82 percent of adults felt that the way they used their phones in social settings hurt the conversation.” (qtd. In Turkle 1). I agree with Turkle that using cell phones ruining the way people communicate in social event like a family gathering. People are so used to texting instead of having a conversation with a person sitting in front of them which can cause them to feel nervous
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