Also digital culture and social media had made they forgot about the reality and live in a virtual life. “The Dumbest Generation” that wrote by Mark Bauerlein is one example. Bauerlein believes that digital culture and social media had cut young adults away from history, civic, literature, and fine arts. However, I have the opposite opinion; believe that digital culture actually made young adults smarter in different ways. There are many famous people including Bauerlein himself were having an argument with another group of people on whether digital culture is an advantage or not.
"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" By Nicholas Carr informs us on the ways technology is negatively affecting our brains. This article starts out by talking about how the Internet is a resource we can use for almost anything. As a result, we are becoming dependent upon it in ways like increase our work productivity, reading, as well as writing. This article also claims that technology is a huge distraction in our lives in the sense that instead of traditional reading we now tend to skim read and even skip right to another article without ever returning to the original one.
The use of logos is shown in “I went back to class and, like, a half an hour later, my mother was in the school.” By providing the audience with the exact time, the narrator is providing evidence for the rapid rate at which information spreads through social media. When another man says “It was about 7th grade and I'm in 12th grade now”, Logos is used again to show just how long people remember the incident. In this case, it is 5 years and counting. Social media has forced the incident into people’s minds by expanding the audience and the ability to save information forever. The narrator also persists that social media creates oblivion within the minds of this generation and that they have lost the ability to judge what is right from what is wrong.
to the new generation’s use of internet and lack of reading classic books, Amy Goldwasser defends the teenage reputation in her article “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” Goldwasser speaks of how the internet has expanded kids’ minds when it comes to school and themselves, also how this generation has more access than older generations due to the internet. Goldwasser claims that teenagers spending time online is overall good for them because they do read and write. The content, however, is not strong enough for educational purposes. A blog post about how to curl hair or how to pass the perfect spiral is not giving them any educational value. Whereas reading the local newspaper or reading a classic novel like “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald would provide a more Nowadays kids don’t read don’twritedont care about anything .
Some experts believe excessive use of the Internet, cellphones and other technologies can cause us to become more impatient, impulsive, forgetful and even more narcissistic. “More and more, life is resembling the chat room,” says Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at Stanford. “We’re paying a price in terms of our cognitive life because of this virtual lifestyle.” We do spend a lot of time with our devices, and some studies have suggested that excessive dependence on cellphones and the Internet is akin to an addiction. Web sites like NetAddiction.com offer self-assessment tests to determine if technology has become a drug. Among the questions used to identify those at risk: Do you neglect housework to spend more time online?
Social media is a new medium for communicating, and while some discredit its communication format for having its users being unable to convey emotion and discouraging proper spelling and grammar, these aren’t the flaws that should be scrutinised. The ease of communication of social media is undoubtedly a positive effect that it has on society however, some people abuse this privilege. Cyber-bullying is a new form of bullying, the effects of which can be detrimental and according to krenzkcn.wordpress.com, results in suicide more often than schoolyard or workplace bullying. On the same website, an article
Are We the Dumbest Generation? Adults often argue that the intellectual ability of today’s generations has taken a turn for the worst due to the amount of technology they are exposed to as they develop mature ideals. English professor Mark Bauerlein examines in his 2008 book the effects of digital media and how it has caused young people to be more connected and technologically savvy as a result of the wide range of modern inventions, but he also asserts that this has caused them to become less intelligent; therefore, he presents the modern ages as the Dumbest Generation. Young people have a tremendous amount of information available to them due to technology through social networks, the internet, and video games. Many respectable individuals discuss on whether to call the modern generation the “dumbest generation” (Bauerlein) or realizing that they might be participating in an intellectual revolution.
It lets them know the latest news and events that are going around in the world. Putting this all together this gives one the illusion that technology is stronger than religious faith because a person cannot imagine their life without these technological devices, just like how a religious person cannot imagine not having a god. The fact that people simply cannot let go of technology is ruining their social life. With people being exposed to such tremendous technology they cannot imagine life without it. IPods, iPhones, iPads, cell phones, laptops, Blackberrys, computers, and numerous devices; items that we cannot part with.
While technology provides us with great opportunities, it can also bring harm, danger and sadness into our lives through the cyber world. Many teenagers these days spend more of their waking hours on the internet. Most of these are spent on a world-known social networking site, Facebook. When online, teenagers see their friends update their statuses, upload pictures of themselves looking happy, allowing the person feel low about themselves and thinking that they don’t measure up. This can cause
Anthony Reyes English 096 Professor Culver February 8, 2013 Should the Media be Trusted? The media is a way for society to communicate with different methods and also experience new outcomes in technology. Although the media is meant for excitement and entertainment, too much can lead to corruption and isolation from others. The media has corrupted the minds of young children and adults all over the world for centuries. The media has a role to corrupt the minds of everyone by television programs, video games, and the Internet.