How does the media affect multitasking and communication?
The media has had a lot of interactions with the world since the television was created. It has affected everyone in either a positive or negative way in every step of our lives. It has saved lives and destroyed entire nations apart with a press of a button. Joanne Simpson argues that “media multitasking” is damaging the students’ ability to focus, concentrate, and effectively communicate with others as well as working on other tasks. In which they have lost the ability to stay focused and effectively concentrate in what’s in front of them. In some positive way, it has affected the ability to multitask and complete everyday tasks successfully but it has created more stress in today’s younger community. In terms of communication, a student is not able to interact with others as they were to before. They are not able to go to a restaurant without touching their phones or even without looking at it and have a decent conversation like the good old days. The creation of technology has been able to increase the ability to multitask, but also lose focus on the same things; in addition, it has lowered our ability to communicate with others by just looking at our phones the entire time of a communication or worst. Nicholas Carr, from “Is Google Making Us Stupid” talks about the old inventions and the new inventions in today’s society; hence, the effect it has on the entire world, but mostly on teenagers and young adults in college. First, I disagree that Google is making us stupid, but instead it is helping us to find information easier. It has helped people in finding new information on their own without going to a librarian as ask for help. In contrast, it may not be for everyone because Carr interviews Bruce Friedman on how the computer has affected him on his mental habits: I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print…I can’t read War and Peace anymore… I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it. (Carr) Google or another type of technology has made us to become inattentive on what we need; likewise, that we are not able to read a complete article but just to skim it. We don’t like to work for it. Society has become more dependent on it than us going to a library and read a whole novel, but instead will read sparknotes or other kind of summaries. How can we even multitask, if it may decrease our way to complete a task if we do not have the ability to even read an article completely? In my own research, I have notice that people do indeed multitask in harmless ways. For example, eating and watching television. It sounds normal like a normal behavior today, because we are use to do it every single day, but it was uncommon before the twenty century; not to mention, there was no television and because when it came to eating, it would be consider a time of grace and respect to God. People have started to lose their morals, behaviors and culture. My mother, who has Hispanic roots, dances whenever she cooks, so it’s normal of her …show more content…
It has been in either a positive or negative way. It has created an easier way of college life for students by finding what they need in a computer and depending on their phone, but it is also a distraction from what is important. It has taken us from one point of our lives by driving us safely back home or to see a close relative, but also have been the ones taking us to the hospital and spend holidays there. It has saved lives from being taken by death, but also it is never good to rely on technology to be our savior. The way we use the technology will affect us in the future; it all depends on how you use the technology that has been given to us. Technology is a distraction, a wall in front of us from people around us. It has isolated us from communicating effectively and being focused on our task. It has created stress that we don’t need. It has make life more harder than what it already
The media has had a lot of interactions with the world since the television was created. It has affected everyone in either a positive or negative way in every step of our lives. It has saved lives and destroyed entire nations apart with a press of a button. Joanne Simpson argues that “media multitasking” is damaging the students’ ability to focus, concentrate, and effectively communicate with others as well as working on other tasks. In which they have lost the ability to stay focused and effectively concentrate in what’s in front of them. In some positive way, it has affected the ability to multitask and complete everyday tasks successfully but it has created more stress in today’s younger community. In terms of communication, a student is not able to interact with others as they were to before. They are not able to go to a restaurant without touching their phones or even without looking at it and have a decent conversation like the good old days. The creation of technology has been able to increase the ability to multitask, but also lose focus on the same things; in addition, it has lowered our ability to communicate with others by just looking at our phones the entire time of a communication or worst. Nicholas Carr, from “Is Google Making Us Stupid” talks about the old inventions and the new inventions in today’s society; hence, the effect it has on the entire world, but mostly on teenagers and young adults in college. First, I disagree that Google is making us stupid, but instead it is helping us to find information easier. It has helped people in finding new information on their own without going to a librarian as ask for help. In contrast, it may not be for everyone because Carr interviews Bruce Friedman on how the computer has affected him on his mental habits: I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print…I can’t read War and Peace anymore… I’ve lost the ability to do that. Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it. (Carr) Google or another type of technology has made us to become inattentive on what we need; likewise, that we are not able to read a complete article but just to skim it. We don’t like to work for it. Society has become more dependent on it than us going to a library and read a whole novel, but instead will read sparknotes or other kind of summaries. How can we even multitask, if it may decrease our way to complete a task if we do not have the ability to even read an article completely? In my own research, I have notice that people do indeed multitask in harmless ways. For example, eating and watching television. It sounds normal like a normal behavior today, because we are use to do it every single day, but it was uncommon before the twenty century; not to mention, there was no television and because when it came to eating, it would be consider a time of grace and respect to God. People have started to lose their morals, behaviors and culture. My mother, who has Hispanic roots, dances whenever she cooks, so it’s normal of her …show more content…
It has been in either a positive or negative way. It has created an easier way of college life for students by finding what they need in a computer and depending on their phone, but it is also a distraction from what is important. It has taken us from one point of our lives by driving us safely back home or to see a close relative, but also have been the ones taking us to the hospital and spend holidays there. It has saved lives from being taken by death, but also it is never good to rely on technology to be our savior. The way we use the technology will affect us in the future; it all depends on how you use the technology that has been given to us. Technology is a distraction, a wall in front of us from people around us. It has isolated us from communicating effectively and being focused on our task. It has created stress that we don’t need. It has make life more harder than what it already