...Multitasking is it good or bad. What do you concern multitasking? “Multitasking changes the way people learn,” (Poldrack) Can this statement be really true? Every day I multitask. Rather it being “Media multitasking”—that is, the simultaneous use of several different media, such as television, the Internet, text messages, telephones, and e-mail. Nowadays we live in a wide variety of interruptions. While reading the article “The Myth of Multitasking” I am against Rosen opinion about multitasking. What is multitasking? How can multitasking help you throughout your day? And is multitasking a bad idea? I also understand why Rosen is against multitasking. One may think that forcing on one idea and paying attention is a great strategy. The reason...
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...Have you ever attempted accomplishing multiple tasks all at once and lose focus on what you were doing? Are you listening to music, shouting at your siblings or children, online shopping, checking emails, and texting friends and wondering why you’re still stuck writing your first paragraph in your essay for an hour now? Multitasking may seem like a simple tool to use to accomplish numerous tasks at once; however, that essay may have already been completed if you were to simply focus on one task at a time. Is all the multitasking even worth it at this point? Multitasking can be a wonderful tool in certain people’s eyes, but it can be deleterious to the task at hand. “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus” is an article written by Alina...
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...it because I was too busy multitasking… First off, this is written as a business novel. Lately, I have been really weary about business novels. For one, I’m not a novel reader and, since The Goal, the only business novels I’ve liked and gotten through are SHORT ones, including All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe’s Garage: World Class Manufacturing Made Simple and The Ice Cream Maker: An Inspiring Tale About Making Quality The Key Ingredient in Everything You Do (my review here). This book, written by business coach Dave Crenshaw, tackles the idea of “multitasking” — that we can do two things at once. If you think about multitasking from a Lean perspective, you might think about the practices of Standardized Work. In a factory, standardized work assumes a person can really only do one thing at a time. At most, you might reach for a part with your left hand while simultaneously reaching for a tool with your right. But, this is a relatively simple task that, in a repetitive manufacturing environment, can be done without thinking and through a lot of muscle memory. In professional settings, we often trick ourselves into thinking we can multitask. While on conference calls, people play Minesweeper or surf the web. This works, except for when you realize you haven’t been listening or someone calls on you and you can’t answer — it’s embarrassing. Nurses and other medical professionals are often the queens (and kings) of multitasking, or so they think. Can we really...
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...We Are Detrimentally Dependent on Technology October 13, 2010 Abstract Technology comes in many forms and no aspect of our lives is untouched by some form of technology or another. Technology is defined as “the practical application of science to commerce or industry”. Technological development into present day has been meteoric to say the least. With the advancements of nearly every aspect of human life having some tie with technology, one might start to see a synergistic relationship between humans and technology. However, while some would believe this relationship has been beneficial for us, we believe there have been detrimental effects from our growing dependence on technology. 1 Introduction No one can argue against the fact that the human race has made enormous bounds in advancements in the last century. From developments in technology which affect society, how we communicate, the field of medicine and education. Technology has not left any aspects of our lives untouched. There will be no shortage of people who would argue that the technological advancements of the 21st century have been beneficial to society. While beneficial, we believe that, as a society, we must realise the magnitude of our dependence on technology and the ramifications if it were to be taken away from us. This paper argues that humans have formed a detrimental symbiotic relationship with technology in its many forms. This paper will investigate the changes that technology has affected, and show that...
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...Web will affect the thought processes of the people who frequently use it; however, they are in complete opposition of each other in their viewpoints. When comparing “Is Google making Us Stoopid?” to the components of an argument, in Chapter 5 of Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader by Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger, the essay is properly structured. The introduction is in place, although it does not clearly state the thesis or position of the essay. If the target audience is not familiar with “A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick” the desired effect will likely be lost resulting in confusion from the very beginning. Mr. Carr’s position on the implications and effects on the human brain is stated in the title and again in the second paragraph and is in clear contempt of the alleged outcome. He proffers that the media, which most of society divulge in, not only supplies the train of thought but may actually sculpt the train of thought. The sources that he refers to are a mix between being verifiable while others are identified merely as friends and acquaintances. It is in the second paragraph when the intention of the essay becomes clear. The author begins his argument by claiming to be suffering from physical and mental symptoms that are allegedly plaguing him and causing him to fret. The ability to concentrate is interrupted by fidgeting and he complains of his minds “desire to do something else” as if...
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...Understanding Media and Culture Essay Paige Pleasant HUM/186 November 21, 2013 Lisa Smith Understanding Media and Culture American culture has gone through drastic changes in the last century. Americans have not only created new ways to reach a vast audience but also have continually updated and maintained means of broadcasting different types of media across the globe. Each new and updated development has played a significant role in the reshaping of America over the past 100 years. Furthermore, the term media convergence and how it has affected everyday life is important to understand as it has contributed its own piece to why and how Americans act the way they do. In the last century, American culture has evolved in accordance with its influence of the major developments of mass media and with media convergence. One major development that has evolved in the last century is the printing press. In the mid-fifteenth century media was hand written in books. Soon after the printing press was created, media was produced more quickly, was less expensive, and each copy was printed the same as the original. Later, Friedrich Koenig connected the printing press to a steam engine that duplicated printable media faster than ever before (19). The telegraph was the first means of sending and receiving messages electronically. No matter the distance, Americans had been presented with a much quicker and simpler form of sending and receiving messages...
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...have been celebrating the role of Twitter, Facebook, smartphones, and the internet in general in facilitating the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt last week.” Western observers stand for Americans who in no way participated in the revolution. Another point that the author states about how the revolution is not do to Twitter, Facebook and other social media is when he states, “In Cairo’s Tahrir Square continued to grow during the five days that the Mubarak government shut down the internet; that only nineteen percent of Tunisians have online access; that while the Iran protests may have been tweeted round the world, there were few Twitter users actually in-country” The quote shows that even with no internet the protest still continued to grow in size despite the social media being down. In the essay ‘Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted’ Malcolm Gladwell argues that social media doesn’t play a role in big scale revolutionary movements, because it forms weak bonds between people and doesn’t have a hierarchical structure. Gladwell shows his point about ineffectiveness of social media in revolution...
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...be defined as online spaces which “allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others” . The use of social networking sites within universities is of interest because their growing ubiquity is already making both positive and negative impacts on tertiary level learning and teaching. As a result, learners and teachers need to critically evaluate their practices in an increasingly online world. This essay will argue that Facebook can have a potentially positive impact on learning and teaching at tertiary level if used appropriately. The essay begins with an overview of how the use of Facebook can contribute to learning and teaching. It then explains the benefits of Facebook for students in terms of socialising, engagement and creativity. The essay then addresses the digital literacy skills students need in order to succeed, and then explains the negative potential implications of Facebook use in tertiary education: the impact of multitasking on academic performance, student preference for using Facebook for activities other than learning, and safety concerns. Appearing on the world stage in 2003, Facebook has revolutionized the average person’s social network into an unprecedented web of...
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...GEOGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA Geog 209 - Fall 2014 T-Th 12:00-1:20 Plus Discussion Section and evening films McKenzie 240A Prof. Shaul Cohen Condon 107G Tel. 346-4500 Office Hours Tuesday 12:00-1:00 OBA scohen@uoregon.edu GTFs Ashley Wall Jennings Office Hours M 1:00-2:00 ajenning@uoregon.edu Christine Carolan ccarolan@uoregon.edu Purpose: This course explores the geography of the Middle East with an emphasis on politics, culture, and regional cohesion. Through a variety of sources including modern literature, film, images of landscape, traditional academic texts and the daily news, we will pursue an understanding of those elements that characterize the region, as well as those features that are distinct and mark different peoples and places. We will examine local, sub-national, national, and international issues relating to identity and status, history, environment, economy and other topics, in an attempt to create a portrait of daily life in the many venues of the region, whether they be urban or rural, coastal or desert, North African or Asian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Arab, Israeli, Turkish, Iranian, and so on. Our goal will be to use the information available to us to discern patterns in the region that allow us to grasp its richness and complexity, to gain a sense of its past, contextualize current changes, and to anticipate future directions. Resources: For this course we will work from a number of selected writings, and...
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...lot of different programs and multitasking on the computer reduces the amount of focus and attention you have on a particular task. 6. I think computers have negatively impacted certain aspects of my lifestyle, especially pertaining to my social life. Moreover, not necessarily the computer, but my smartphone. Computers have negatively impacted me due to the addiction towards them. Whenever I’m bored or even at a party I’m almost always on my phone rather than talking and socializing with others. I think technology just in general has consumed me and my social life with all its capabilities and games. There are definitely ways in which improvement can be made such as reducing the amount of time spend on my devices as well as getting out more and being more physically active. 7. Besides negatively affecting the environment computers have also made some positive contributions to the environment such as: Allowing us to create “Greener Technology” which improves the energy efficiency of devices, thus reducing its overall energy consumption. Low carbon technology. Technology developed in China with a goal offset the amount of emission polluting the air by using renewable fossil fuels. In contradiction with one of the negative impacts, computers have eliminated the need to physically write messages and notes to people around the world which ultimately saves paper and trees. 8. Article: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/is-social-media-harming-our-mental-health-researchers-wonder...
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...Synthesis essay: why the revolution will not be tweeted Technology is being used all across the globe in everyday life. With the development of technology, the development of social media became very popular. In “Small Change: Why the Revolution will not be Tweeted”, Malcolm Gladwell stresses that “real” revolutions do not depend on social media to be resolved or started; however, small revolutions can depend on social media or networking. Although Dennis Baron is sending the same message in “Reforming Egypt in 140 Characters?” there is one point that Baron makes that differs from that of Gladwell’s; Baron actually believes that a game changing revolution can occur with the use of social media. Gladwell believes that in order for a revolution to be successful, it does not have to rely on social media networks. In the beginning of his writing, he discusses the sit-ins that occurred in the 1960s. After acknowledging how fast the word spread about the sit-ins, Gladwell mentions that it happened without the help of “e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Tweeting” (314). Social media was probably not thought of in the 1960s. One of the biggest revolutions, the Civil Rights Movement, was accomplished without the need of social media. Also, it is easier to get participation on a social networking site rather that participation for something that is confronting a disgraced practice. Gladwell claims that it is easier for a person to donate blood rather than to protest for a certain...
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...Ashley Fuell Marissa Campbell English 121 May 6, 2014 Is Texting Making Us Dumb? Almost everyone I know over the age of twelve years old owns a cellphone and uses it to communicate through text message. Add to that the large amount of people who use email and social media, and it’s clear that we depend a lot on technology to communicate with each other. In order to make these methods more efficient and immediate, a form of tech speak has developed and due to frequent, constant use, has begun to creep into the school classrooms. Tech speak is a form of slang that shortens words to make text messaging faster. It also includes emoticons, a way of using punctuation marks to make a picture of a face or whatever the user wants to form. Technology is making us bad spellers with the use of spell checkers and autocorrect. This texting lingo is also damaging our youth’s written language skills because students are finding it increasingly difficult to switch between using tech speak and proper grammar. Further, texting is hindering students’ abilities to focus in class, hurting their grades. Finally, college entrance officers are reporting application essays with tech speak and acronym shortcuts being submitted by prospective students that end up causing the student to be denied entrance to the college. Tech speak is becoming increasingly more evolved and complex in its own way. Students who use tech speak, or texting lingo, tend to ignore punctuation and capitalization rules, use...
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...This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier’s archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright Author's personal copy Computers in Human Behavior 26 (2010) 1237–1245 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers in Human Behavior journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/comphumbeh FacebookÒ and academic performance Paul A. Kirschner a,*, Aryn C. Karpinski b a Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC), Open University of the Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419AT Heerlen, The Netherlands The Ohio State University, The College of Education and Human Ecology, The School of Educational Policy and Leadership, 29 West Woodruff Avenue, 210 Ramseyer Hall, Columbus, OH 43210 b article info Keywords: Facebook Social networking software Grade point average Academic performance abstract There is much talk of...
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...Educating Millennials Synthesis Informative Essay As millennials are growing to more than half of the educational population, educators are looking for new, informative and engaging ways to keep the interest of millennials. Educators have recognized that the students today are far different from when they themselves first entered the classroom years ago. Educators are taking note and looking beyond the traditional classroom setting and adapting to the ways of how millennials are learning. Students' learning styles vary, which requires active faculty to use various teaching methods. By encouraging millennial students to use different types of learning tactics in different circumstances, educators are aiding these students to be critical thinkers and adaptive students. While educators are learning, millennials are also learning. Millennials often look for ways to learn on their time while trying to keep up with the latest technology. With advance knowledge of cell phones, millennials’ main sources of communication are instant message, social media, and text messaging. Millennials have become progressively interested in nontraditional learning. Millennials are looking for different avenues that are not only quick but also flexible with their everyday social and work life. Technology savvy millennials are conforming to a new approach of learning while being encouraged to think about their own values and future plans (Wilson, 2004). Millennials, also known as the Net Generation...
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...Contents Chapter 1 Mass Media Literacy 2 Chapter 2 Media Technology 16 Chapter 3 Media Economics 33 Chapter 4 Ink on Paper 49 Chapter 5 Sound Media 64 Chapter 6 Motion Media 80 Chapter 7 New Media Landscape 96 Chapter 8 News 112 Chapter 9 Entertainment 128 Chapter 10 Public Relations 144 Chapter 11 Advertising 160 Chapter 12 Mass Audiences 176 Chapter 13 Mass Media Effects 192 Chapter 14 Mass Media and Governance 209 Chapter 15 Mass Media Globalization 225 Chapter 16 Media Law 241 Chapter 17 Ethics 258 Chapter 1 Mass Media Literacy 1.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) Media researchers at Ball State University found that people are intentionally involved in a media activity for __________ percent of their waking hours. A) 1 B) 10 C) 30 D) 60 Answer: C, Topic: Media Ubiquity Page Ref: 3 2) Traditionally, mass communication is defined as the technology-assisted transmission of messages to A) print journalists. B) interpersonal audiences. C) mass audiences. D) only niche audiences. Answer: C, Topic: Media Ubiquity Page Ref: 4-5 3) According to the research firm Nielsen, the medium that is used much more per day than other media is A) music. B) magazines. C) television. D) newspapers. Answer: C, Topic: Media Ubiquity Page Ref: 4 4) Mass media have become so integrated into people’s lives that __________ is common. A) mainstreaming B) media multitasking C) writing letters D)...
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