Chris Estrada
Ms. Silva
Networking English
17 December 2015
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Introduction
Why do teenagers commit suicide? Cyberbullying has been a thing since the internet started and kids got a hold of it. “Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology” (Cyberbullying 1). In this essay I will go behind the scenes and talk about cyberbullying and why people cyberbully. According to research 14% of high school students and considered about suicide and 7% have actually done it. Also in this essay I will talk about leaving a good reputation and not a bad one. We will also be discussing the basic rules of using the internet and digital citizenship. What is digital citizenship people might say? Digital citizenship helps people understand what they are getting into when the browse the web or their social media accounts. It teaches them to use technology appropriately. “Digital citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology” (Cyberbullying 1). Good Digital Citizenship
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Digital citizenship is setting a good example for the future that’s going to use the internet. People nowadays browse the web without knowing what is happening on social media. People like to tag along and also agree with most people on the web. For example if a person of twitter tweets something racist. It is only right for the other people on social media to not share that post or to spread the message. There can also come consequences for the people that tweet the message and also people who shared the message. These are the people that use technology without care. They were raised with bad digital
In conclusion, Carr and Gladwell’s essays have proven that the internet positive effects are outweighed by its negative effects. Carr has found he is unable to finish a full text anymore or concentrate. He thinks that the internet has taken our natural intelligence and turned it into artificial intelligence. Gladwell discusses how nowadays, social activism doesn’t have the same risk or impact as former revolutions such as the Civil Rights Movement. The internet is mostly based on weak ties based among people who do not truly know each other and would not risk their lives for their
She argues, “Now I suggest that the culture in which they develop tempts them into narcissistic ways of relating to the world” (244). The author argues that the society in which young adults grow up, reflects on their view of the world. Growing up in a technologically advanced society, teens seem ill prepared to deal with their day to day surroundings that require social interaction. Many millennials show little interest in anything dealing in the past. Instead, they are focused on the future and the next great technological advancement. Lastly, at the end of her essay, Turkle expresses the true social issues of teens due to the abundance of technology. She claims, “teenagers who will only ‘speak’ online, who rigorously avoid face-to-face encounters, who are in text connect with their parents fifteen or twenty times a day, who deem even a telephone call ‘too much’ (243). Turkle claims that there are consequences resulting on the heavy reliance of technology. Teens only speak over text and cannot even speak on the telephone, because they are too internal. Rather than speaking externally with others, teens are quiet while only communicating with themselves and over the phone. They would rather write words, than speak them. This is creating a generation of young adults who are not comfortable in normal social
Beato stresses out the idea that “American psychiatric Association (APA) should add internet addiction to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)” by bringing up its consequences, he is extremely right. In its first conception, internet addiction disorder may appear as a negligible issue in our society since some of its effects are the promotion of the stupidity and the increase of the unconsciousness. An example of how ignorant and insensate we have become, Greg writes an anecdote about “the 18-year-old who choose homelessness over gamelessness” (para. 7). However, when in paragraph 8 he presents the tragic brief history of the young man who killed his mother and injured his father because they wanted to take his Xbox one, this leads us to question ourselves on how the internet can seriously affect our behavior like drugs. In addition, internet addiction has a negative impact on our mind. In other words, it may conduct to a depression. In his article Beato backs up this evidence with an example of students who qualify themselves “jittery”, “anxious”, “miserable”, and “crazy” (para.3) when they were deprived of their connections to the Internet. Finally, many young people have prefer their virtual life at the expense of their social life. They do not know what it means to communicate with other methods like a letter or a face to face communication. Greg support this idea by using a statistic graph. According to that graph, “more than 1
The advent of the internet signaled a revolutionary shift for society, in which participation in massive amounts of information was easily and rapidly accessible to any connected country. This digital revolution gave rise to monolithic digital communities that dominate the web and strongly influence the globe; Twitter helped Belarusian youth organize flash-protests against their authoritarian government in 2006, while Wikileaks continues to serve as a public international clearing-house for whistle-blowers. But despite these resounding stories of success, concern is spreading that there is an underlying problem with our digitally enhanced society – especially in the western world. Widespread debate has been sparked by the digital revolution over modern technology's influence on younger generations, with experts combating each other over whether the internet is dulling or expanding young minds. This debate is not restricted to education, but extends to cover issues of morality and perspectives. Education issues are tied to lacking cultural awareness and political activism, but world-views are a separate and altogether more severe problem for the next generation. As the internet becomes more embedded in our lives, youth are retreating into the isolation of private social bubbles and turning reality into a remote abstract concept. Apathetic, amoral and disconnected youth in the western world are spreading to replace the active socially charged older generations.
For example, while computers have replaced typewriters, it helps the students to become a better writer as they can “revise text, rearrange paragraphs, and experiment with the tone and shape of an essay” while using word processing. Thus, the computer helps the students to improvise their writing. Human relationships with computers and technology have come closer than ever before in the recent decades. Erik Erikson’s view on the element “psychological moratorium” implies the identity development in adolescence. According to Sherry Turkle, computers and the internet have given wonderful opportunities to the young generation that helps them to present themselves online through role-playing games, chat rooms, and other technological venues.... ...
After she know about all these cases, she believes that is necessary do something before the damage is done. She explain how much people is affected because cyberbulling. She made a research about why teenagers don’t think before type. She investigated and found that the brains of the teens are like a cars without breaks. They don’t think before act.
In “Digital Citizenship” Simon Lindgren, discusses Digital citizenship looking at how people have an active role in using the internet and social media to engage in political conversation. Lindgren presents the idea of the ‘public sphere’ from the 1962 theory by Jürgen Habermas, by analysing the transformations and developments in media, specifically in social media platforms and how they have altered how politics and news are discussed in today’s society. Arguing that the internet and social media may have created the emergence of a new public sphere. Developed from the work of sociologists ‘Hargittai and Paul DiMaggio’, Lindgren demonstrates the five digital divisions that can affect the access and usage one may have when engaging online. They consist of technical means, the autonomy of use, skill (internet competence), social support and different
Participation is the culminating ethical issue in the new digital media, and it arguably subsumes the issues of identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, and credibility. Participation centers on the roles and responsibilities that an individual has in community, society, and the world. In sum, opportunities for youth to assume empowering social roles online can endow them with a sense of responsibility to others, to their communities, and to society.
The uses of social media and digital world have created an opportunity for young people to face with social norms, explore interests, develop technical skills, and work on new forms of self-expression (“Goff). Mizuko Ito, the lead author of the study, says, “Spending time online helps young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.” Similarly, according to a co-author Lisa Tripp, an assistant professor at Florida State University, as cited in Goff, says that “Using the technology media like YouTube, iPods and podcasting create an avenue for extending one’s circle of friends, boosts self-directed learning and fosters independence.” Thus, the arguments made by opponents is highly supported with strong opinions and
An example of proper citizenship ; If you use information that isn't yours put who you got it from and the site. Many people use the internet for social media(Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) or research (Google and Ask). People on social media post so many things
Suicide is one of the top leading cause of death amongst young people. Since the upsurge of social media and internet access, suicide rates have increased drastically. It can be argued that the internet contributes to the hike in suicidal rates. Although the internet has effective preventative methods for suicidal individuals, it advocates and normalizes self-harm and suicide amongst young people. The internet should not withhold positive and negative suicide information; however, it should place restrictions on who can access this sensitive information.
Technology is one of life’s most impressive and incredible phenomena’s. The main reason being the shockingly high degree to which our society uses technology in our everyday lives. It occupies every single realm, affecting people both positively and negatively. There are so many different forms of technology but the two most often used are cell phones, and the internet/computers in general. Today’s younger generation was raised alongside technological development. Kids now a days learn how to operate computers and cell phones at a very early age, whether it be through their own technological possessions, a friend’s, or their parents. They grow up knowing how easily accessible technology is, and the endless amount of ways in which it can be used. This paper will be largely focused on the effects of technology on the younger generation because your childhood is when these effects have the largest impact. I am very aware of the subject because I am the younger generation. Aside from major effects on study and communication skills, there also exist the media’s effects on teen’s self-esteem and mental health. Maybe more importantly, there is our world’s growing problem of over priced and unnecessary consumerism. Over time, our society has created a very unhealthy form of reliance and dependency on technology as a whole. People essentially live through their devices. Cell phones are always with people making it nearly impossible to not be able to reach someone at anytime, day or night. In 2011, there were 2.4 trillion text messages sent, and 28,641 cell phone towers were added across the US. 1 We use our phones and Internet for directions, communication, information, self-diagnosis, games, movies, music, schoolwork, work, photos, shoppi...
Technology affects everyone! Whether positive or negative, we are all affected, how it manifests itself into problems for youth will be studied and debated for years. Balancing technology throughout the educational process and keeping with current trends and uses of technology will affect everyone. Technology has transformed our youth’s daily and social lives. How do we measure the effects of technology on our ability to socialize or have a successful social life? Socializing is not just talking face to face, it’s our ability to interact, learn, and create original thought. Technology hindering today’s youth and their ability to socialize is affecting their capacity to read, write, and communicate. Today’s youth depends on careful considerations for the implementation of technologies. Our youth do not have the capability to convey their emotions through the use of technology, understand sadness, happiness or joy through simple text or emails. Communicating through the use of text, chat, and social network sites is lost using abbreviations and slang, inhibiting the use of the Standard English language. Using computers and hand held devices for relationships, reading, writing, and entertainment, turning them into introverted and socially inept individuals. Current trends resonating from our educational institutions to our workplace can be examples of how technology has altered the way younger people communicate. This tragedy transcends from youth to adulthood affecting the workplace. Social networking sites have begun to take hours away from employers. How do students understand ethical and moral dilemmas unless they are allowed to make mistakes and work through a particular problem? Creative and original thought needs...
To begin with, this essay is going to expound the positive changes that Internet has brought to public citizens by ex...
When it comes to individuals, the transition to electronic media has had a enormous effect. Individuals used to be passive observers when it came to print unless they were themselves authors. Now with the advent of Facebook and other social media sites, individuals are not the content creators. People can share all types of information with almost anyone via the internet and increased connectivity. Individuals were able to come together via social media, the internet, and smart-phones to mobilize the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and even more recently the “99%” movement as well, as like minded individuals sought each other out in order to stand against economic disparity. With the transition from print to digital media also came the mass collection of personal data. Individuals are sharing more and more information not only with each other but also financial institutions and retail outlets. This information can and will be shared by those entities in order sell people on items and services they may be interested in, or have been interested in in the past. This has brought up concerns with cyber-security and an individuals rights to