Digital Attachment: Praise for the Internet For the past few years, the digital world has captured my attention. A creation made in 1969 by the Defense Department has become my release from reality; a way to explore, learn, and discover something new day after day. The Information Super-Highway is my community. As with almost everything, being attached to something so strongly has both positive and negative effects. For some people, the Internet is nothing more and nothing less than a bundle of information. For others such as myself, the Internet is not only a form of learning - it's a way to express myself. For example, owning a personal webpage gives me the opportunity to express myself in a way that is much different from offline expression. Not only is it an emotional release, but I can also incorporate my artistic abilities within the layout. Chatrooms are a fantastic form of communication. One has the opportunity to speak with someone in a different country without the cost of long distance charges. The knowledge one can gain from viewing an educational, informative website is phenominal. It can do anything from helping you with a term-paper, to keeping track of your ancestry. These examples all reflect the positive effects of the digital world. On the other hand, the Internet somewhat resembles the game Telephone. Accurate information is hard to come across when browsing the Web for educational purposes. One must research several pages to acquire correct information. The Internet tends to tear you away from important things such as family and friends. Because the Internet is a fairly new concept, it remains interesting - thus pulling you in from your every day life. Another negative effect I've aquired is my personal dependency on the Web when dealing with emotion. Most people have a paper diary - mine is consisted of HTML (HyperText Markup Language). Without the Internet, I would definitely be a different person mentally. Comparing my attachment to the Internet in comparison with Bettelheim's theories is a somewhat easy task. Bettelheim had the notion that if one is too involved in his/her community, they may be shielded from crucially important truths. I'm shielded from the actuality of every day life. I experience things in
...concrete theories and empirical truths, no matter how factual, that we may attempt to use
theories can be defined as a way that a student grows, progresses, or increases his or her
Theory: A general statement about some parts of the world that fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related
There are many definitions to theory. According to Akers (2009) “theories are tentative answers to the commonly asked questions about events and behavior” (Akers, (2009, p. 1). Theory is a set of interconnect statements that explain how two or more things are related in two casual fashions, based upon a confirmed hypotheses and established multiple times by disconnected groups of researchers.
... a theory should be able to explain a wide variety of things, not just only what it was intended to explain.
...ually throughout the processes of the theory, certain words and definitions need to be decided on and kept. Confusion prevails when the terms and ways to understand the theory are continually changing.
There are many definitions to theory. According to Akers, “theories are tentative answers to the commonly asked questions about events and behavior.” Theory is a set of interconnected statements that explain how two or more things are related, based upon a confirmed hypotheses and established multiple times by disconnected groups of researchers.
The scholarly views on the nature and types of theory are different between scholars. Therefore, one scholarly view on theory is that a theory must fit certain criteria to be considered a good-theory (Wacker, 1998). As a result, a theory should contain four components, which include the definitions of variables, a
12.) Theory - is a system of ideas to explain how a certain situation or event might have came about.
The internet is a medium used to access almost any information at any time, and...
The internet is a vast network of computers that connects many of the world’s businesses, institutions, and individuals. It allows millions of people throughout the world to send and receive messages to each other, share information, and play games (Naughton 4). It was initially designed to aid the government and help people expand academically, but it is now becoming more commercialized and used in ways that it was not made for.
The "pervasive, invasive information infrastructure...is as much a part of our lives as religion was for medieval surfs" (Tetzeli 1994, p. 60). But is it too much? We've all seen the mind-numbing statistics about the exponential growth of information and of technological means of distributing and accessing it. However, some people question whether the problem really is one of overload. One source of the problem is actually the multiplicity of communication channels. Unlike earlier eras, such as when printing presses replaced manuscript copying, new technologies are not replacing older ones but are adding to the host of media choices (Davidson 1996). With these multiple channels the information flow is now simultaneous and multidirectional. However, most traditional information management practices are too linear and specific: they were pipes developed for a stream, not an ocean (Alesandrini 1992). The sheer quantity of information and the speed with which it can be acquired give an illusion of accomplishment (Uline 1996).
the Internet can be all or none of the above depending on how it is used.
Theory is a hypothesis or a system of ideas envisioned to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
The Internet is one of the greatest inventions of humanity. It is a massive network of computers, each with the ability to access any of the others. Ungodly amounts of information can be found on the Internet. It is the ultimate form of media, a combination of newspaper, radio, and as the average bandwidth is increasing, television. Using