Bates Tony March 3, 2016 , ,www.tonybates.ca/2016/03/13/technology-and-alienation-symptoms-causes-and-a-framework-for-discussion/
Throughout the article Bates defines exactly what alienation is ,and he focuses on how technology plays a major roll. The purpose of this article was to focus on how technology can lead to alienation, and to provide a framework for discussing the possibility of technology alienation in online learning and how to deal with it.Alienation is the perception by people that they are becoming increasingly unable to control the social forces that shape their lives. And the causing of one to become alienized. Bates provides strong theoretical examples throughout the entire article, but one that really stood out was when he stated in Fahrenheit 451 “Nobody listens anymore, I can’t talk to the …show more content…
The author’s purpose is to discuss the issue of technology and alienation of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 , and Political Correctness in Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury’s main idea was to emphasize on how the people let technology and Television traumatize their brain. The author provides a strong example when he states in paragraph 14 of the article “In Fahrenheit 451 the government uses television to indoctrinate the people”, Bradbury envisioned television as an opiate. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as walls and its actors as a family fan refers to the characters by first name, as if they were relatives or friends.” Consumers allow the television to control their brain banning themselves from the use of books creating this controversy that makes it look like the government is demanding them to stop the use of books when in reality they allowed themselves to become alienated to technology. This article is useful to my research topic , because it gives an in depth explanation to exactly how technology and alienation occurs , and it’s coming directly from
Throughout the article Bates defines exactly what alienation is ,and he focuses on how technology plays a major roll. The purpose of this article was to focus on how technology can lead to alienation, and to provide a framework for discussing the possibility of technology alienation in online learning and how to deal with it.Alienation is the perception by people that they are becoming increasingly unable to control the social forces that shape their lives. And the causing of one to become alienized. Bates provides strong theoretical examples throughout the entire article, but one that really stood out was when he stated in Fahrenheit 451 “Nobody listens anymore, I can’t talk to the …show more content…
The author’s purpose is to discuss the issue of technology and alienation of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 , and Political Correctness in Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury’s main idea was to emphasize on how the people let technology and Television traumatize their brain. The author provides a strong example when he states in paragraph 14 of the article “In Fahrenheit 451 the government uses television to indoctrinate the people”, Bradbury envisioned television as an opiate. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as walls and its actors as a family fan refers to the characters by first name, as if they were relatives or friends.” Consumers allow the television to control their brain banning themselves from the use of books creating this controversy that makes it look like the government is demanding them to stop the use of books when in reality they allowed themselves to become alienated to technology. This article is useful to my research topic , because it gives an in depth explanation to exactly how technology and alienation occurs , and it’s coming directly from