...Technology, Cell phone, Texting John W. Siggers COM/220 11/21/10 Ruth Cameron In a 1928 film there was a scene where a woman appears to have a cell phone glued to her ear was, ” in fact”, a time traveler, well that is the thinking of some conspiracy logical thinkers. However, this strange scene from a Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film, “The Circus” where a woman seems to be telegraphing or rather phoning who looks as an unscrupulously dressed Martha Stewart, is surely a voyager from the vortex of time and space (Sawyer, 2010). How can one little technological devise come to matter so much. Technology, cell phone and texting, have made a major impact to personal lives both positive and negative, and is preferred over in-person human encounters. History over time is defined by new technology used. In each age a significant impact has attributed to the advancement in the civilization of mankind. Humanity has moved from prehistoric times into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. During modern times, the ages defined as the Industrial Revolution, the age of steam, the steel age, the age of the automobile, and the computer age. With every new age, the people developed and used the new technology could dominate militarily or economically (Technology 2005). Technology has changed the face of modern day civilization. Technology has inundated grade schools colleges and universities...
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...Outline Thesis: The usage of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and has sadly became the main resource of communication. I. Introduction: What if every cell phone in the world crashed? How would society communicate? How would one know when someone’s birthday is without getting a notification for it? Some people wouldn’t even know when to get up each morning. Thirty years ago, these questions would be easily answered, but it would have taken separate resources to solve each issue. Most tasks nowadays, however, are done by using this single device. The overuse of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and, sadly, becoming the main resource of communication. (Tip: 1. Ask a provocative question or disturbing question.) II. One problem with cell phones in today’s society is that they have become major distractions. A. Cell phones are distracting employees in the workplace and leaving them with their jobs halfway done. B. Not only are cell phones a distraction in the workplace, they are also a distraction and disruptive in school districts, causing students attention to be elsewhere. C. In addition to cell phones being distracting, people often like to multi-task by walking or driving while texting. These things case them to be unaware of...
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...Impact of smartphones on students’ work habits The modern day student is now equipped with smartphones and it is a rare site to see a student who doesn’t have a smartphone or a computer. As the age limit for owning these things are also being brought down as we now see small kids and primary students having these devices when they were once only bought after a certain age. The age limit for having these devices are going down and therefore the chances are that the modern day high school student has probably grown up being surrounded by smartphones and technology that he/she is proficient in its use by the time they are all grown up. These smartphones, being a major part of the modern teen society, plays major roles in their lives. Teenagers and students use them for entertainment, playing games, watching movies, and texting and calling our friends. As you can see smartphones play a major role in a teenager’s life and the typical teenager is usually inseparable from their mobile companion. Therefore it is only natural to include this device into a school students education, as they can learn of a device that they are so used to living with as well as the potential for learning material to be presented on a much more interesting basis due to the interactive capabilities of a smartphone. The question is, although using smartphones in the education department sounds appealing and intuitive, will it actually aid with education or provide the students with further distractions that’s...
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...technology. “ Text me, see you on facebook, send me an e-mail” and many more of these words and terms that we are repeating theme more than ten times in our daily lives not only as a matter of social prestige, but because it reflects a picture of our daily lives. Cell phones, MP3, internet and many other modern technologies have become essential components of the lives. How many of us feel at loss and lack the ability to focus when you forget our cell phones somewhere, but once we have it back in our hands its as if we found treasure? How many hours do we in front of computer screens, messaging and chatting? Our earphones are deafening our ears with modern music and isolating us from everything that surrounds us, it is as if the whole world has become reduced and viewed only in a 14 inch screen. Modern technology affects our daily lives in every way and shaped our generation to the way it is. Why and how is this happening? What are the consequences of us as individuals and our social environment? With increasing impact of technology with its different effects on the life of teenagers and young generations , most studies call these young people to stay away, even temporary, from modern technology, pointing out that they need a short break between now and then to restore the spirit and enjoy the life and return to reality away from cyber space. We must control technology rather than have the technology controlling us. For example, we can talk about the problems that we have with computers...
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...The Alternate Reality Since the late 1990’s, texting has exponentially risen to become one of the most popular forms of communication. Old High School friends living across the country talk every day, and employers keep constant track of their employee’s whereabouts. It’s fascinating what texting has done for our world, but at what cost? In “Tapping into Text Messaging”, Janet Kornblum examines the proposal that texting has hollowed our mental presence. She cites large communication companies as saying that our physical presence and mental presence are often misaligned. It is indeed an intriguing thought, and is observable on a day-to-day basis. Kornblum presents statistics, cites high authorities, and examines the counterargument to create a very compelling argument. One may be quite skeptical when reading Kornblum’s essay, as texting is such a huge part of modern society. However, Kornblum seems to have quite the resume backing up her argument. Janet Kornblum is an award-winning journalist, who specializes in the field of social media. She’s written about social media for publications such as USA Today and CNET, and even trains other people in her field. It’s fair to say she should know what she’s talking about. For the first two pages, Kornblum uses statistical analysis to show the popularity of text messaging. Her essay was written in 2003 and already 45% of American teenagers had a cell phone! It’s plausible to believe that number is around 95% today. In addition she...
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...Nguyen Thanh Dat Professor John Basourakos English 3A – Advanced Writing and Reading January 1th, 2012 The Dangers Lurking inside Your Cellphone In the modern world, the use of technology plays an important role. One of the most popular applications is the cellphone. The cellphone is a potential hand-held device for each individual. However, along with a lot of positive aspects, the cellphone still has some negative aspects reached to consider should or not using cellphone. Using cell phones can cause serious problems like health hazards, accidents from texting or talking while driving and linguistic ruin from texting messages. This research paper is divided into four sections. In the first section, the paper will discuss the popularity of using cell phones in the world and the consequences of increasing the use of cellphones. In the second section, this research paper will survey the health hazards caused by using cellphones in terms of time and age. These health hazards include brain tumors and male infertility. The next section will discuss about texting or chatting on cellphone while driving and the potential consequences. The last section will offer point of view about the abuse of abbreviations in texting language by teenagers. In recent years, cellphones became more and more popular in the world because of the quick development of technology and science. Mobile phones are considered as new and important parts of our bodies. Too many people using cellphones means...
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...Wilson, Emily McPeake ENG 1A September 21, 2013 How Is Evolution Killing the English Language? Texting has become one of the most common forms of communication in modern times, especially with the younger generations. As the times and definitions of “modern” continues to change, many people are having troubles coping with this concept and the fact we are and will always continue to evolve. Just as growing up is the human body’s way of changing, language is societies way of changing. There is no set definition of what the English language is supposed to be composed of, forever. The English language is not negatively impacted by texting; it is simply evolving through new forms of communication, entertainment, and learning. Our way of communicating with each other has been transformed with the help or “txtspeak.” It is a very common way of talking, whether it’s in person or through SMS. If we compare what we considered to be the language of English from a few hundred years ago to now, there is an obvious change. As we evolve as a society, everything around us does as well. Abbreviations are being entered into the dictionary and many people are going crazy over it. One of the most common complaints about our overuse of abbreviations is the multiple meaning of them. Humphrys claims that, “as it has developed, its users have sought out increasingly obscure ways of expressing themselves.”(Humphrys, 187) Even though this seems to be true, the trick to figuring out the meaning...
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...nowadays people have become addicted to texting as a source of communication. Mostly it may be teenager’s blogging on social networks or sending quick messages. Professionals and older people scheduling meeting or even checking emails. Texting has become a regular form of communication among individuals (Caird et al., 2014). Texting messaging is an easy and fast way to communicate with friends, relatives and colleagues. It has become a very major distraction but also a risk, because now more than ever people are being distracted by their cellphones and mobile devices while driving. Distracted driving is one of the problem faced by road and safety departments due to technology (Caird et al., 2014). This literature review will look at the effects of texting on one’s driving ability. Driving alone is a very complex task because it requires cognitive, physical, sensory and psychomotor skills. It also requires a certain amount of attention and concentration, but it is a trend to see motor driver being involved in texting in the process of driving (Caird et al., 2014). Texting can be defines as using some sort of keyboard of a cellphone, laptop computer or any other electronic device to send conversational messages to another individual. While driving can be defined as a controlled operation and movement of a vehicle such as a car, bus or a truck. Both these activities require a fair share of concentration to be performed correctly. Texting while driving is said to be hazardous especially...
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...We are living in an electronic age. The whole world is taking a new turn with every fraction of time. It has given birth to globalization. The world has been contracted and concised at a tip. There are a lot of new means of communication which have made our life so simple and easy going. Mobile phone can be seen as the most used present day phenomenon in this fast growing time. Mobile phone is a revolutionary step in the field of tele-communication. We had the days when the telephones only served the purpose of communication through sound. Mobile phone has completely changed the concept of the telephoning. Now a phone is not only a mere phone but it is a lot in itself. A mobile phone works on a unique networked system which needs no wiring, no fixation and no botheration. Originally it was used in cars, airlines, and passanger trains but increasingly it is becoming ubiquitous. It is basically low- power radio telephone. In this magical system calls go through radio transmitters that are located within small geographical unit which are known as cells. Since each cell's signals are too weak to interfere with those of other cells operating on the same frequencies and more channels can be used than would be possible with high power radio frequency transmission. Narrow-band frequency modulation (FM) is the most common mode of transmission, each message is assigned a carrier, unique to the cell from which it is transmitted. The cellular phone was first tested in 1978. The cellular...
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...Poor Writing Skills In the Workforce In today’s society texting, e-mails, twitter, facebook, and many other forms of communication have evolved. Throughout these technological advances come many different forms of communication. Since the evolution of texting, people have evolved to say things faster and in less wording to make their point get across. But over the last several years, the workforce has taken these texting acronyms and lingos to their jobs and it’s not going well. Because of this, people can’t communicate efficiently or affectively and companies are noticing. What’s worse is that it seems to get worse and worse and people are becoming very lazy and illiterate about proper English. If this keeps up, companies will suffer from poor communication and we could see a change in how English is perceived today. To begin, the whole era of texting in acronyms and smile faces and extra symbols started with teens. Always in a hurry to say what’s on their mind, teens started inventing faster ways to communicate to one another. At first it was a great idea if you needed to send a quick message to your sibling or friend. But soon it evolved into that’s how teens started writing their papers and became more illiterate. Now as these young generations are hitting the workforce, companies aren’t taking a liking to it. Because the older generation didn’t grow up texting all day they don’t understand what some of the acronyms mean. It also makes it very hard to read when words are...
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...such an exceptional access to information and people. Truly, geographic limitation is now destroyed in terms of communication. However, we are becoming more ignorant about how these technologies are affecting our life every day. We are abusing these communicating methods without acknowledging that our life and our own personalities are being spoiled. As a consequence, these technologies are bringing the lacks of social interaction, distraction, and the decayed expression of languages and emotions. The rise of technologies is leading to the collapse of our communication. Technologies are ruining social interaction among humans. Without a doubt, technologies have dominated our choices of interacting with each other. While the purpose of technologies was to improve the communication between humans, people now prefer using these tools to talk, rather than face-to-face conversations. In fact, human civilization has been always developed based on the connection between people, but now, we are losing that real connection in order to exchange for a virtual one. As a case in point, today, we can easily see people, especially teenagers, going around with their phones or tablets on their hands all the time. Some people even spend more time talking on the phone, texting, video calling, or emailing… than meeting other people. Eventually, we are living in a virtual world where we are no longer real. During the summer, parks...
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...Distracted Driving has been an on-going issue; committed by both veteran and beginner drivers. Multiple states including Florida have begun fining those who are caught texting and driving in order to reduce the numbers of those injured and/or killed due to distracted drivers. Alaska being the highest with a ten-thousand dollar fine; while Florida is one of the lowest with a 35 dollar fine. Many oppose these laws, claiming that if you’re a good enough driver, you can text while driving and not get into an accident. However, this is still not enough proof or a reason to stop fining those who are caught, because over 330,000 people in the U.S. are still dying by text related accidents. Something that has been helping combat this problem however, are Public Service Announcements (PSA’S). Whether it be a story of a...
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...Intexicatied: The Dangers of Texting and Driving Have you ever been driving down the road and the car in front of you is swerving all over the road? You then become worried and you proceed to switch lanes to ensure your safety, and as you approach the car, you see that the driver is face down in their cellphone, and because of the size of phones these days, you realized that they almost cause an accident for Facebook? Really, Facebook? What happens when your friend comes to pick you up and as you guys head out for a night on the town, your friend is all consumed with texting in the middle of driving, and she inadvertently veers over into the next lane cutting a vehicle almost causing a collision? Your life could have been lost in the blink of an eye, all because of that darn cellphone. As you continue to read this paper, it will show you that texting while driving is just as dangerous and driving while under the influence of alcohol. Cellphones have been around for centuries. The modern cellphone has only had the capability for texting since 1997 when Nokia introduced the 9000i with a full QWERTY keyboard (A Brief History of Text Messaging, 2015). Since its time, the cellphone has become interactive; we now have the luxury of not even needing a personal computer, because cellphones have evolved into just that a fully functional complete communication device. Cellphones are a necessity in life and it has been proven, but not as it pertains to texting and driving. The website...
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...PHONE PARADIGM SHIFT Brandon McNutt Cell phones can provide many services that computers also provide. We can send content to another phone number with a push of a button (texting). These devices in this modern day, allow us to access the mobile web. Mobile phones connect to a wireless communications network through radio waves or through a satellite transmission. The device allows you to write letters without evening touching a piece of paper or a pen/pencil, also known as e-mail. A cell phones option to text someone can have a huge impact on the English language. Phrases abbreviations like ‘oh my gosh’ (OMG) and “laugh out loud’ (LOL) have been added to the dictionary. Texting has gone as far as picture and video messaging. This led to sexting where two or more people exchange sexually explicit material via text message. This application allows us to communicate without having to communicate socially. This device has evolved so much that we no longer have to communicate with each other socially or have to interact with other peers. We can be at a social gathering and be texting someone across the room. Why? Is it faster? Or is it because, it can be much easier to communicate with a person via mobile device. Americans ages 18-29 can average about 88 text messages a day. The numbers vary as the age increases. The postal system that we used to use to communicate to other people isn’t as affective as it used to be. Instead of sending a person a letter to interact...
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...Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter contains the gathered researches from different sources. These different studies will be used as a guide and support to the research. The related literature starts with the good and important effects of different gadgets used in learning areas and goes on with the possible effects that might happen to Students when technology is being used extensively. On the later part of the chapter are the gathered related studies and articles done by various researchers. Foreign Literature Jessica White (2005) said that, technology has completely changed the scope of education in America. Most states require a technology aspect to their school improvements plans. They have embraced the idea that using technology in their classroom makes the subject anything from math to art-more accessible to many kinds of students. Educators, administrators, parents, and students are so well-versed in technology that it has become norm in even the most economically disadvantaged schools. She also stated that controversy exist about some students having access too much information. Some internet sites are not monitored by educational sources. Students who have not been taught the proper way to research on the internet might make a research hypothesis based on a website whose information is untrustworthy. Educators should be cautious and explain exactly what their expectations to their students are. Plagiarizing-detection software checks that...
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