Digital devices can be helpful like when my sister was using the computer to look up information. I was not being as productive as she was; I was on facebook, AIM, and my MMORPG. My video bored me, as so did all the other videos.
When looked in my sister's point of view, having a computer is an asset. But when looked in my point of view, facebook gets boring, my MMORPG gets boring after a while, and AIM sometimes gets boring too (when you are not talking to anyone).
Maggie, I must say, the second half of your video reminds me of the old horror movie Halloween, and countless horror movies after it, where you see everything from the killers point of view. People thought this would warp people's minds and I think it sets the perfect mood here and casts a great tone to the video. It seemed to me that your opinion was left open ended on digital-representational-devices. You said that for yourself, that they are boring and don't seem to lead to much without another person involved, but for somebody like your sister that they can act as tool to help gather together information. I can connect this to something that many people have stated in class, that many of these devices can be good or bad. You are essentially saying the same thing, that they have many different uses and that it just depends on the how. I think that in order to try and take this to the next step, one has to consider that people are really the ones in control of al of these devices. If people find that these devices are rotting away at our culture, are harmful to our youth, or that they are the greatest thing to happen in the history of ever, they have to see what that says about our society, because these are merely tools that we use to represent our inner selves, or at the very least, an aspect of who we are. This really starts to make me think about how we have to means to direct civilization in any direction we see fit, and in connecting it David Banach, who we are studying in Manley's English class, people have to take more responsibility for the way they act online because it affects everybody eventually and the way the world turns (Metaphorically of course). I really liked your post, even if it was just a little tidbit it led me to find a lot of interesting concepts that I think many people are not aware of, or if they are, ignore. Thanks for the insights, Henry
You're right, we are going in circles. I think that part of the problem here is, if we think that DRDs are leading us to a positive society, then there is nothing we can do to change it (except to advance more in technology).
But you also reminded me to not only point out those sides, but to also come up with a solution.
I don't know if I have mentioned this at all but I met a friend in my college now class and she is the only person I know that does not have an AIM. I believe she does not even have a facebook. Her only form of contact is email. I think that is better than most of us; AIM and facebook are pretty addicting. As I started to think about the homework for Social Studies and English, I found myself on AIM and I know it was becoming a distraction but I could not make myself sign off and cut off all the conversations.
Unfortunately, I recently heard that she was under the influence and created an AIM SN. *Tears* my only role model. But anyway, I have been trying to cut back on AIM and the least amount of time I have been on AIM is 2 hours. Let's see if I can beat that.
You bring up a good point. People do need to be responsible for what they do. I have noticed that people say "it is all technology's fault" or "we live in a generation surrounded by technology, what can we do?" People might be able to do something, even if it is small; like cutting back on computer for half an hour and then an hour, so forth.
BTW, thanks for your comment on my video... I think it sucked >_<
Digital devices can be helpful like when my sister was using the computer to look up information. I was not being as productive as she was; I was on facebook, AIM, and my MMORPG. My video bored me, as so did all the other videos.
ReplyDeleteWhen looked in my sister's point of view, having a computer is an asset. But when looked in my point of view, facebook gets boring, my MMORPG gets boring after a while, and AIM sometimes gets boring too (when you are not talking to anyone).
Maggie,
ReplyDeleteI must say, the second half of your video reminds me of the old horror movie Halloween, and countless horror movies after it, where you see everything from the killers point of view. People thought this would warp people's minds and I think it sets the perfect mood here and casts a great tone to the video.
It seemed to me that your opinion was left open ended on digital-representational-devices. You said that for yourself, that they are boring and don't seem to lead to much without another person involved, but for somebody like your sister that they can act as tool to help gather together information.
I can connect this to something that many people have stated in class, that many of these devices can be good or bad. You are essentially saying the same thing, that they have many different uses and that it just depends on the how.
I think that in order to try and take this to the next step, one has to consider that people are really the ones in control of al of these devices. If people find that these devices are rotting away at our culture, are harmful to our youth, or that they are the greatest thing to happen in the history of ever, they have to see what that says about our society, because these are merely tools that we use to represent our inner selves, or at the very least, an aspect of who we are.
This really starts to make me think about how we have to means to direct civilization in any direction we see fit, and in connecting it David Banach, who we are studying in Manley's English class, people have to take more responsibility for the way they act online because it affects everybody eventually and the way the world turns (Metaphorically of course).
I really liked your post, even if it was just a little tidbit it led me to find a lot of interesting concepts that I think many people are not aware of, or if they are, ignore.
Thanks for the insights,
Henry
Henry,
ReplyDeleteYou're right, we are going in circles. I think that part of the problem here is, if we think that DRDs are leading us to a positive society, then there is nothing we can do to change it (except to advance more in technology).
But you also reminded me to not only point out those sides, but to also come up with a solution.
I don't know if I have mentioned this at all but I met a friend in my college now class and she is the only person I know that does not have an AIM. I believe she does not even have a facebook. Her only form of contact is email. I think that is better than most of us; AIM and facebook are pretty addicting. As I started to think about the homework for Social Studies and English, I found myself on AIM and I know it was becoming a distraction but I could not make myself sign off and cut off all the conversations.
Unfortunately, I recently heard that she was under the influence and created an AIM SN. *Tears* my only role model. But anyway, I have been trying to cut back on AIM and the least amount of time I have been on AIM is 2 hours. Let's see if I can beat that.
You bring up a good point. People do need to be responsible for what they do. I have noticed that people say "it is all technology's fault" or "we live in a generation surrounded by technology, what can we do?" People might be able to do something, even if it is small; like cutting back on computer for half an hour and then an hour, so forth.
BTW, thanks for your comment on my video... I think it sucked >_<