...Teens get about 9 hours of media a day. 6:40 of those 9 hours are on a screen, says the “Common Sense Media”. Is that too much time? I think that teens are not having too much screen time. Is what teens do with the screen time good? Most of it is a waste of time but if used right, those 9 hours can benefit them a whole lot. The “Common sense media” says that only 25% of the things that teens do on a screen are not good. The other 75% are things that benefit us and let us become creative and let us concentrate. I know that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) , causes a lot of attention problems. Music allows me to concentrate when working. I think it helps me because I am able to listen and work at the same time . if it is benefiting...
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...some sort of media screen a day. These hours increase to almost six hours a day for children ages eight to eight-teen years of age. This is a huge difference to what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends; children under the age of two years should not watch any TV (screen time could interfere with brain and social development) and children older than two years of age should not watch any more than two hours of quality programming a day (screen time could interfere with social, academic, and physically actives). There are a lot of positive attributes TV can offer: quality programming can teach young children the alphabet or interesting facts about nature and adults can stay current with the evening news. However, a little TV goes a long way. Children who watch violent media are less likely to trust the outside world and more likely to have aggressive behaviors. American children watch, on average, two hundred thousand violent acts on TV by the time they reach the age of eight-teen years old. All this violence gives children a mixed message. While us adults say it is “not nice” to hit the so-called “hero” shows hitting is the way to fight the “bad guys”. How is this showing our youth the difference between right and wrong? Young children cannot distinguish between what is real and what is fantasy. The older child can be reasoned with, telling them the violent images are not real or giving honest information to help with fears of what they saw. But, why would anyone need...
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...Iphone Is Not Worth the Pay Samsung and Apple are all major brands of cell phones. Out of both of these Apple is the worse to buy or own. Apple Iphone is the worse phone because they break easily, makes noises when it gets too hot and every time a new one comes out nothing changes. Nobody should buy an Apple Iphone, they never live up to the standards. One reason why no one should get an Apple phone is because it breaks, how it breaks people drop the phone or throws it up in the air. To fix the screen on the phone alone is $200. A design defect is breaking a ton of Iphones. They have flickering gray bars and all with glitchy touch functionality. Up to 100 Iphones a month are reported with cracked or broken screens. I have a friends with a Apple I phone. They’re always telling me how there screen broke and it only fell off their bed. Or they spilt a drink on it and the screen is frozen....
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...pressure on businesses to raise their prices, lower the quantity of the product they are making, or push them in to having to reduce the availability of their product because they are no longer making the profits they had before the iPad came on the market. 2. What makes the iPad a disruptive technology? Who are likely to be the winners and losers if the iPad becomes a hit? Why? * The iPad is a disruptive technology because it is more expensive than the products it is replacing. It cost more to buy an iPad per megabyte than it does to by a notebook. * It doesn’t necessarily work as well as the products it is replacing. Trying to type a document on an iPad is difficult, and if you truly want to take notes, you need to buy an apple keyboard, which will run you another $100 or so. * Research shows that consumer didn’t greatly desire a new technology and were satisfied with the products they currently had. * It gives people another reason to separate from reality and other basic human interactions. You can talk to someone via face-time, text someone if you don’t want to see them screen-to-screen, surf the web to do shopping, and allows people to buy things at the click of a...
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...cancer. Then why do we keep sunbathing, when it is dangerous? That is a really good question! We humans love a good tan, it makes us stand out a little, and look different from the others. It also means that you have done something different than lying at home on a couch. You have been outside and maybe did some activities. When you think you look a little better, you get satisfaction and more confidence, and everybody loves that. All these things sound great! So why aren’t we all doing it? Well, then there is also all the cons. And the cons are bad. Really bad. So bad that it kills many people every year. It can give Sunburns, skin damage, eye damages, cancer, etc. And in worst cases that can lead to death, and that happens. Then it’s very important that you remember to use sunscreen. If you don’t remember sunscreen your skin can be harmed, and you can get cancer, and cancer is lethal. Sun screen has a huge impact on how your skin tolerates the sun’s rays, due to its neutralization of UVA rays and UVB rays. UVA rays is what makes us look older, they make wrinkles. UVB rays is what cause sunburns. But not getting any of the UVA or UVB rays is inevitable, it’s only when you are getting too many it is dangerous. I personally love being outside and enjoying the sun. I can lay back and enjoy life, with an ice cold coke. But of course I TRY to remember the sunscreen, without that I would get a bad sunburn, and that has happened many times. But I really do not think that much about...
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...It was early Saturday morning. I decided to text my friend to see if he wanted to go to breakfast. Seconds later I got a response; he would love to. When we got to Cracker Barrel, there was a gigantic crowd. So, we decided to wait, but the entire time we were waiting, my friend, instead of talking to me, just looked at his phone. I was infuriated. And if it wasn’t bad enough already, when we got to the table, he proceeded to look at his phone almost the entire time. This is becoming a major problem among teens, as well as adults. Just last week, I was at Chey’s and I look over to the table across from me, and both women were staring at their phones and were not saying a word to each other. Is this what we really want the dinner table to look...
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...spend more than seven and a half hours a day in front of the screen” (Mediainthelivesof8to18). Just cannot resist stopping texting or posting a picture on Instagram. These days’ teens are being lazy and believe that physical activity doesn’t matter. Many believes that “28.0% of Americans, or 80.2 million people, aged six and older are physical inactive” (www.fitness.gov 2010 ). This is why teens should stay active it has health benefits, because it provides more time with others, and teens are off the streets. Now day’s teens are not keeping in mind about health benefits that will occur when they stay active. It has been demonstrated that,...
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...important to you? Your phone or your future? It’s time to fire your phone and hire your brain. So it’s time to get working! We have been so focused on our phones that we forget that we actually have a brain we can use. “Shut down your screen” week can change all of that. We should participate in “Shut down your screen” week because it can help kids become more focused in class. During school while my teacher was talking to my class my phone kept vibrating, I kept having the urge to check it. This proves that phones are a huge distraction in our daily lives. This is why we need to participate in “Shut down your screen” week. It can help students pay attention more in class without having a phone to buzz in their pocket every five...
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...* * I do for the most part feel comfortable sharing my results, but I do feel a little uncomfortable as well because I was a little surprised by my results. According to the Test I have a slight automatic preference for European American compared to African American. I don’t know if that is true because I don’t think that I think that way, but maybe it is possible to have a slight automatic preference without realizing it, as if I do it subconsciously. Here is a screen shot of my results, * * I hope that you are able to read this because I found it to be both very interesting and surprising at the same time. After taking this test, I am left to wonder if most people have a slight automatic preference for some races over others or if I am in the minority in that category. * * Do you agree or disagree with the result? * * I am not sure if I agree or disagree with the results of the test. I have always considered myself to be a person who has no prejudice in my heart and that I looked at every race the same way. It shames me to admit that a few years ago when I was driving a cab for almost a year, blacks were in general the worst tippers and many did not tip at all which over time did cause me to stereotype blacks as being lousy tippers. I have talked to a few servers in restaurants about it and most of them say the same thing. The blacks the rode in my cab were no more rude or polite than anyone else, so I never hated them, I just got to...
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...Whether they realize it or not, social media affects everyone that is involved with it. It’s an outlet that almost every person uses on a day to day basis. They put their life on a screen for everyone to look at and silently judge. It may seem as if everyone has their life together, but that is just the side they want you to see. When people put their lives on the internet, in most cases, they need a sort of affirmation from the people who view it. They crave a comment, a like or even a share. When their post doesn't attract that attention, it may seem like a let down to them. Everyone wants approval from their friends and family, even if they resort to posting it online to make their life seem "perfect". It's common for many to see the posts...
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...you seen them somewhere on playgrounds, or such places? I bet you haven’t. What do you think they are doing during their free time? They are carelessly spending it in the Internet, mostly in social networks. Well, maybe it sounds fun, but I don’t see any good in children spending great amounts of time in front of the screen. I’m too afraid to picture the aftermath that is going to happen in about 10 years from now. But, according to my current observations, I got a very bad feeling about it. Speaking of my observations, from time to time I visit some public places, and I see lots of teenagers sitting in groups and it all seems nice, except for one thing, EACH of them holding a PHONE. Just imagine – 4 teenagers sit around a table, each of them stares at the phone’s screen and scrolling facebook and at the same time they try to communicate. And believe me, that’s not just an accident, I’ve seen enough of such cases. It looks weird, what is the point of going somewhere public if your mind is in the online world? Well, I do not blame entirely these teenagers. It is not their fault. The ones to blame are their parents. They are the ones who are buying them fancy electronic devices, without thinking about the consequences. You may think my point of view is way too radical. Well, maybe its true. I accept that children can have access to the Internet, but only to a limited number of sites, like Wikipedia. I don’t see why children need accounts in social networks until they are...
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...THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Why do we feel pressured to look good? What difference does it actually make? Marie Claire delves into the subject to find the real reason behind why we crave ‘pretty.’ “Poison them, drown them, bash them on the head. Got any chloroform? I don't care how you kill the little beasts. Just do it, and do it now!” barks the wretched Cruella De Vil, one of the most hated women in the history of imaginary evil characters. How did she garner so much hatred – was it only because she was an evil dog-hater? We feel it was necessary for author Dodie Smith to garnish her personality with a good dose of hate symbols – an angered heart, unkempt hair and a haggard face. How could we possibly justify hating a pretty damsel-in-distress even if she can’t do without coats that come from Dalmatian puppies? Perceptions about good and bad have been played around with since ancient Grecian times. What is interesting about these perceptions is that they are almost always correlated to the way you look. The good girls of the golden, silver and bronze screens have to not only look good, but also have perfect hair and skin. On the contrary, the vamp cannot be a vamp without jarring facial expressions that are further exaggerated by trashy makeup. Inception So what are these projections trying to tell us? Are they saying that beautiful is good and ugly is bad? Dr. Rachna Khanna Singh, Lifestyle expert cum Psychologist, Artemis Hospital thinks that this comes from an age...
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...Advantage or Disadvantage for Pre-School Children Chan Jia-Qi Janice, Chan Kar Kei, Darius Shu Chen Keong, Naik Shiang Jen, Siau Yeu Jiun, Wong Chin Hui, Yap Huey May School of Communication Taylor’s University Index 1.1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………… 3-5 1.2 Research Questions …………………………………………………………… 5 1.3 Methodology Selected ………………………………………………………… 5-6 1.4 Data Analysis / Findings ……………………………………………………... 6-13 1.5 Final Discussion of Insights ………………………………………………… 13-15 1.6 Conclusion …………………………………………………………………...15-16 1.7 References …………………………………………………………………... 16-17 1.8 Appendices ………………………………………………………………… 18-29 1.1 Introduction Today, children are spending most of their time being occupied by iPad, iPhone and pad-based gadgets that have the access to the Internet. According to Romeo (2003), the emerging in technological development had allowed computers and touchscreen devices to be added into our lifestyle. For example, touchscreen devices like iPod, iPad, Samsung Tab and etc are used to check emails, surf the Internet, connect with people, either for work purpose or personal purpose, and also used in education purposes in pre-school and colleges. Anderson mentioned this in his research in 1999, “The computer has become recognized tool in education of young children, particularly where it is used to promote problem-solving skills and social interactions amongst children” However in Romeo’s report, it has...
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...Internet Addiction In today's world, most Americans use the internet daily for daily needs. It has become very common to go online because it makes research and socializing easier. The internet is a great place for social networking and meeting or communicating with people across the world. Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, claims that using the internet can make people less intelligent. After spending a number of days researching on the topic of internet use, I have came to agree with Carr. I not only agree with him, that using the internet does make internet users less intelligent, I also believe that using the internet too often can make a person addicted to the internet. Once a person is addicted to the internet, they not only become less intelligent, like Carr believes, but they also develop mental and psychological problems. People should be more aware of internet addiction. The signs and symptoms should not be avoided when someone sees themself in the addiction situation. Once they become addicted, it is like a real drug, it will pull them in slowly and be hard to get away from. DSM IV and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) define addiction in terms of substance dependence or pathological gambling. To define internet addiction, it would be someone that meets at least three of the following criteria: tolerance, salience, withdrawal symptoms, difficulty controlling use, continued use despite negative consequences...
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...How Computers Change the Way We Think By SHERRY TURKLE The tools we use to think change the ways in which we think. The invention of written language brought about a radical shift in how we process, organize, store, and transmit representations of the world. Although writing remains our primary information technology, today when we think about the impact of technology on our habits of mind, we think primarily of the computer. My first encounters with how computers change the way we think came soon after I joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, at the end of the era of the slide rule and the beginning of the era of the personal computer. At a lunch for new faculty members, several senior professors in engineering complained that the transition from slide rules to calculators had affected their students' ability to deal with issues of scale. When students used slide rules, they had to insert decimal points themselves. The professors insisted that that required students to maintain a mental sense of scale, whereas those who relied on calculators made frequent errors in orders of magnitude. Additionally, the students with calculators had lost their ability to do "back of the envelope" calculations, and with that, an intuitive feel for the material. That same semester, I taught a course in the history of psychology. There, I experienced the impact of computational objects on students' ideas about their emotional lives. My class...
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