Rape Culture in the Media The media is certainly a prominent force in the world today, whether this be in a positive or negative manner. In this case, it has a mixed effect on how rape culture is affecting our society. Once something is placed in the media, it can travel extremely quickly, which will spark many responses. The Internet, while it has many positives, can also create an incredibly dangerous and scary environment, both online and in the real world. In the end, rape culture is definitely being spread through the media, often in a negative way.
It Probably seems that one of the biggest issues we have today in the world might be the loss of the private self, But what we do everyday and the experience we have is what i think defines us as a society. Just as how the world state used “feelies” to escape from their lives, us personally as a society also do this through consuming media through many things such as television and the internet. . As Huxley’s London played endless games of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy and Obstacle Golf, we buy up (and throw out) countless Xboxes and Playstations etc. And also how the people of Brave New World used plentiful, casual sex as a source of simple pleasure, do we use sex to market and to entice?
People nowadays can communicate with people all around the world using many different types of communications such as social networking sites, cell phones, emails, etc. Carr brings in many different scientific research as well as a couple of personal experiences to show the great change in technology and the internet. The author chose to write The Shallows from an epiphany he had realized, “It (his brain) was hungry. It was demanding to be fed by the net feed...I wanted to check email, click links, do some googling. I wanted to be connected” (Carr 16).
By mentioning and quoting a lot of successful writers and bloggers, he expect us to understand that the loss of memory and attention is something that can easily happen to everyone; even those who spend their time reading a lot of information, they will suffer the same consequences if the media is not presented by an auspicious medium. Talking about google
He has represented the Internet as the answer to all of society's worries. In both these articles both writers provide very convincing evidence weather on how the Internet is making us more brilliant or is it turning us brainless. In Nicholas Carr’s Article “Does the Internet Make You Dumber?” he argues the fact that the Internet indeed does make you “dumber,” almost scaring its reader to stay away from web usage. He takes a more scientific approach talking about how the Internet allows us to have a mass amount of information at any time, but with all that info comes distractions. He goes on about how those distractions hurt our mental thinking.
In my own opinion this causes many issues which can lead people to do immoral things and commit bad crimes, and be able to justify their actions by stating it was already determined for them to do it. With this idea you can’t be praised for doing good things or punished for doing bad as we did not choose to preform or commit these actions. Ted Honderich was a hard determinist and said all our choices, intentions and our actions are nothing more than effects from other past events that have already happened. David Hume would criticise this he argues against hard determinism and says we do have free will and moral responsibility, we are responsible for all our moral and non-moral actions regardless of whether they could have been determined by our past choices or values. John Hospers also thought all things were determined.
The government, like any other from a different country, has censored a lot of information from us that shouldn’t be. Our world may seem under control and going well, but really when we think about things, its because we don’t know something, it has been blocked from us for any reason, or they (our government or any ruling power) try to eliminate things because we don’t want to loose control. On the contrast, like any argument there’s an opposing side. There is a large amount of people who believe in censorship due to information being taken in could cause physical or psychological harm. Also, other factors that could cause harm: national security, pornography, and privacy.
ADDICTION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING CAUSES SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES BY EUNICE OWOLABI CENTENNIAL COLLEGE MARCH, 2012 The Introduction The Internet is the largest source of information in the world today. With its web sites, Chat rooms, Twitter and Facebook at the present, it is a means of communicating with people in places all over the face of the earth. The Internet is more than a physical network of wires linking individual computers to one another. It is also a network of people and information resources. Meanwhile addiction, which come from word addict is a person who cannot stop taking or doing something harmful.
Thoreau on School Segregation Henry David Thoreau is known as one of history’s greatest critics of American government. Thoreau argues that a government should be run by the group with the most legitimate viewpoint, not the group with the most power. In 1849, he wrote Civil Disobedience in which he urges his readers to use their conscience to determine if a government is acting within its bounds or if it is committing injustice. Thoreau argues that a citizen must do what is right and not simply comply with the law’s demands. He cites the existence of unjust laws and declares that we as citizens should not be obligated to follow them.
The actions of advertising war online can cause someones life to change for the worse. Both physical actions and actions online can cause a camotion. Many people can be harmed at rallies, and other social events where large groups of people are involved. Any one can help save a life by not sharing the violence that they see. The world is a harsh place with violence, crime, and hate.