"Television: The Plug-In Drug" by Marie Winn

Winn, M. (2011). Games. In S. Cohen (Ed.) , 50 Essays (pp. 196-201). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's.

In “Television: The Plug-in Drug,” Winn argues the effects of television on family life. She reveals the television has changed the way of family activities. Especially, on the children that have been influencing by television which is changing the family’s communication, sleeping time, and child group activities. She pointed out that in the past, television seemed to bring the family together, because each family could only afford one television. In this modern day, with the low price of television, almost every family can have two or three or for each one in the family. From this reason, family member started to separate time of watching television from each other. From my opinion, the television seems not to be the cause of problem but the parent who give their children everything want. What if we just started to think about what really is the cause of the problem and solve it from there?

“The World Wide Web-Miracle or Menace” by Dian Katz

Katz, D. (2009). The World Wide Web-Miracle or Menace. Lesbian News, 34(10), 32. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

This article Katz reveals the reflection on the positive and negative sides of the World Wide Web. From her opinion, the Internet was designed only for technical groups to share information instantly with a few keystrokes. From time to time, it evolved into people life living, all information can be found from the Internet. On the positive side, the Internet is fun, exciting, a learning tool, and you can communicate with a lot of new friend. On the negative side of the Internet, it may cause addictive behavior, invade privacy and also there are a lot of charlatans, liars, cheats and criminals. If we realize that all things have good and bad sides, and being aware of what we are doing, we will avoid any troubles in this high technology world.

An Interesting Blog From My Classmate's Blog

From the post topic “Driving distraction” on “Marc blog,” He suggests, “One of the main distractions during driving that we have now is our mobile devices.  We constantly get texts messages and have this urge to read it while driving.  Not just text messages but status updates from Facebook, or notifications.  Looking at your mobile device is really dangerous to our now society of driving.”

This topic is very interesting because it has become a serious problem that everybody should pay more attention to and not try to be a part of it. However, in this case it is hard to stop what people want to do. Even though, some countries have made a law to not use the phone while driving, but still a lot of people sneak to do it. There are many ways that we can use a telephone with out making any problems. Sometimes, you can pull over in the safe place when you need to use the telephone or wait until you get to your destination if there is no important phone call. It is everybody responsibilities to work together to solve this problem.

“The Machine is Us/ing Us” by Michael Walsh Sheppard


Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

In this interesting video, Sheppard points out how incredible internet can do on writing and how we should use technologies which he calls “The Machine” with realization. From a pencil scratching on a piece of paper has become fingers touching on keyboard and click by one finger. His video shows how simple and fast. We also can simply revise the digital text, and research the sources we want for our wring. Moreover, he shows off the way we can add an element such as, picture, video, and link to design the writing.  From his main idea of this video, he reminds us of the human right such as; copy right, authorship, ethics, privacy, love and family. In my opinion, there are a lot of people who know the limit of what they can make the machine to work for them. Also, there are a lot of people who only want to take all of what they can to get themselves a convenience as they can. It seems like nothing we can do to stop these people, we can only hope that they will stop and think of how much they should expect the machine to do things for them. Before we run too fast to follow the modern machine, we should stop and think of what if we do not have it? What can we do with out it? Can we live with out the machine?

"What Makes Facebook So Popular" By Sturat Mitchel

http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Makes-Facebook-So-Popular&id=1317349

In this article Sturat Mitchel points out four factors that make Facebook, which has over 64 million subscribers, so popular.

1.      Share photos with the word with no limits and add comments under your friend’s photos.

2.      Discovering a friend’s status in current time to let you know what your friend is doing.

3.      Sending time notifications that can become an online invitation.

4.      Interacting with friends through games and applications which require no face-to-face to have fun.

                From these incredible four factors, we are shown how network makers use people‘s needs to have their product succeed. There is no doubt that in the future we will see a newer website which may have a lot more factors than Facebook.

China Bans Electric Shock Therapy for Internet Addicts

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5835417/China-bans-electric-shock-therapy-for-internet-addicts.html

In this article, Malcolm Moore pointed out the way China uses electric shock to treat Internet addiction. Like anywhere else in the world, the revolution of Internet addiction in China has become a serious problem. In my opinion, using the electric shock is not the way to solve the cause of the problem. There are a lot of better ways to solve the internet addiction problem such as: to cut off electronics that can connect to the Internet and limit time that they can spend on the Internet by making them do something else. To solve this problem with children is a parent responsibility to find the way to be in control in the Internet world, by teaching and watching their children, not by hurting them. 

"Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted" by Malcolm Gladwell

In “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” Malcolm Gladwell reveals the way protesters, in the past and today motivate people to join in protest. In the past protester motivated people by: word of mouth, flyers, and poster. All these ways take time to get people together. In today society, high technology in social media abuses people to communicate through network media which take less that a second to send a message to each other. Gladwell shows that social media like Facebook and Twitter have changed social activism which effected traditional relationships between political and popular authority.  This article shows us how the Internet has become the tool which has an authority over people.

Is Google Making Us Stupid by Nicholas Carr

First “Stupid” is a very crude word, so I will avoid using it. From “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr points out the way people, including him research information for their writing on the Internet. This is changing the way people read and think by their senses. He explains that the more people use the Web, the more people can not stay focused on long written pieces. With only a few Google searches, they then click and quote what is right there. From his points people stop listening to their senses and follow the quick information and use the network media as a quick, brainless solution. From my opinion, Google does not make us ignorant (stupid) but shows how increasingly lazy people who think that they are smart. On the other hand, Google helps us save time with reading for only one quote; and we are able to save money, instead of buying a lot of expensive books.

Cheating by Chatting

Mileham, B. (2004). CHEATING BY CHATTING. Hispanic, 17(3), 28-29. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

Mileham reveals that flirting in Internet chat rooms has impacted marital relationships and creates reasons for seeking sexual thrills online. He reveals that the reason for seeking sexual thrills online was the lack of sex in the marriage, boredom, and the excitement of the dating world. From his interviews, about 83 percent did not believe that online liaisons are a form of infidelity. They think that online sex involves no touching of another human being, even though 17 percent believed that it is. His researched points out that if online liaisons are not infidelity, why are the chatters hidden their chatting from their spouses? When the spouses find out they feel betrayed, angry, and hurt. One-third of divorce litigation is caused by online affairs. This high technology world could destroy many marriage relationships if we do not accept that online communication is infidelity.