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Film, New Media and Culture : (Does the Internet make us smarter, dumber…
Film, New Media and Culture :
Does the Internet make us smarter, dumber or more ignorant?
Nicholas Carr: Author of the article, *Does the Internet Make You Dumber. He is someone who is not quite sure that technology is here to benefit us, he thinks it might actually be harmful.
Clay Shirkly believed that the Internet is benefiting us intellectually by linking our cognitive information with other peoples ideas or thoughts.
William Poundstone believed the Internet is not making us dumber or smarter, but mega-ignorant.
Meron Gribetz describes the Meta 2, the device that would change technology forever by allowing us to be the operating system of the hologram.
Technology is making people become less sociable, and more interested in the online world.
Professor Keith Hampton believes that those who use social media, tend to have more diverse and a larger number of close relationships.
Professor Larry Rosen believes that technology has allowed us to connect more with the people in our virtual world but communicate less with those who are in our real world.
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Achieving a digital degree solely online, without actually physically attending a College or University.
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Video games are actually an acquired skill and can positively influence people's skills and generate new gaming strategies.
Violence in video games influencing players to act with violence or become more angered or restless.
We are living in a world of people who worship the objects of their own invention, in the form of fax machines and high speed computers.
How technology impacts relationships and individuals lives, as seen in the movie "Her"
Technologies ability to benefit us intellectually and link our ideas with other peoples cognitive intelligence.
Extreme amounts of phone usage being the reason for doing poorly in school or not being able to connect with other people in the real world.
Strategies people can try to help limit the amount of time they spend on social media or technology.
Income levels, gender, and socioeconomic status are barriers to full and equal participation in new media.
Within the US, the gaming industry's revenues have exceeded the movie and music industries.
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New media is known for changing the way we look at the world, and being able to do things we could have never done in the past.
Allowing technology to take us places we don't want to go. Sherry Turkle believed that in our society, receiving a text was equivalent to getting a hug.
As a society we have become dependent to our phones and technology, but distant from the real world.
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