Effects Of Media On Multitasking

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 …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