This article is all about how instant messaging is effecting out youth. The author spoke to teachers and students for this article. Instant messaging is all about saying something using less letters and/or words. Our youth is so used to writing in this lingo it just comes natural to them. It comes so natural that it is making its way into schoolwork. Students are so accustomed to using this language they don' t realize they are doing it. Even when they are proofreading they don't see it as being wrong. They should know when and where its appropriate to use internet lingo. Some teachers believe this form of shorthand is just a fad and won't be around long. There are other teachers that use it as a way to teach their students about the way language evolves. Some teachers encourage their students to use it in the first draft in order to get their thoughts out, just don't put it in your final draft. The author wants you to know how and why instant messaging is effecting students, and what teachers are doing to deal with it. Here we have a very bold statement about powerpoint corrupting our society. He states it effects our business, schools even our government. He boldly states, "It induced stupididty turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication." (390) He is very one sided on this topic, to him powerpoint is all bad there is nothing good about it. The author believes information gets lost when taking the facts and turning it into a powerpoint. To him these presentations are just disruptive and lack a proper amount of data. He wants to see more simple presentations, just statistics and facts nothing more nothing less. He thinks that teaching our youth to make a powerpoint takes away their ability to write a full sentence. He can draw from this article that the author thinks that our society would be better off without the use of powerpoint. The Youtube effect is the way that information, mainly videos are spread across the internet and across the world. The author mentions the CNN effect, it was an expectation that through the television they could shed light on serious topics and expose government truths. This is pretty much what the Youtube effect is, but it spreads like wildfire. In our world today there are so many camera phones anyone can take a video and post it online. Once it's online anyone can view it and share it, then next thing you know it's being viewed around the world. He states, "There are 65,000 new videos posted everyday." (424) Sometimes it can be hard to decipher between fact and fiction, but our demand for reliability is getting stronger. We want to see reliable sources in a video or we have doubt it is real. Governments are trying to find ways of controlling and censoring video content being uploaded, but these are pretty much failed attemtpts. The web of videos can become very confusing, but that is all just part of the Youtube effect. Greg Gutfield is very upset with Time magazine and online writers. He feels Time magazine doesn't put enough effort into it's articles anymore He even suggests they do it purposely because they know no one reads their magazine anymore. He also attacks the writing styles of online writies. He says they are a bunch of cowards hiding behind their computers saying what they couldn't say in person. The author uses a satiric style that is hard to understand. His sense of humor comes off more hostile, than funny. What is clear is the author is very dissatisfied with the writings of the present. He believes more harm comes from online commentors than points being made. He also thinks the focuses of today in the media and online are effecting our children in a negative way. He feels they no longer aspire to be great, they only want to be rich and famous. It really comes doen to the author thinking the internet is having a bad effect on all of us. This article is really just about that finding out if google is making us stupid. The author feels that since he has been using google his thought process and concentration have been effected. He can no longer handle reading anything more than a couple paragraphs long. He also talks about how technology has changed our society throughout the years. He says the machine we use to write with can have an effect on our thought process and the way we write. He mentions when Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter and a friend noticed a slight change in his style of writing. He believes that with new technology comes new ways of thinking and reading. He also did call the web a godsend. He can now look up information in minutes verses days of library research. He does express fears of us relying on technology too much and it taking over us. In conclusion he does see some good to it, but it doesn't out weigh how harmful it is to us. |
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November 2013
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