Turkle's Explanations

Turkle’s explanations are accurate evidence from interviewing students and her personal experiences, which we can all relate to. For instance, people’s attention is not in the present when devices are in their hands. Such as Turkle’s experience she observed as she traveled to a conference on robotic technology in central Japan. “Laptops are open, fingers are flying. But the audience is not listening. Most seem to be doing their e-mail, downloading files, surfing the Web, or looking for a cartoon to illustrate an upcoming presentation. Every once in a while, audience members would give the speaker some attention, lowering their laptop screens.” Moreover, work associates used to engage with one another as they waited for presentations; now they are emailing instead. Some say “they are making better use of their downtime,” but they argue …show more content…
Turkle informs us that by the 1990’s the Internet provided spaces for the projection of self. “The plain represented themselves as glamorous; the introverted could try out being bold. People built the dream houses in the virtual that they could not afford in the real. They often had relationships, partners, and even “marriages” of significant emotional importance.” One person tells Turkle, “’I don’t have enough time alone with my mind’; another, ‘I artificially make time to think.’” When we receive a quick message, we are expected to give a rapid response. This is a growing reality of lives that are lived in front of laptops, palmtop, cell phone and IPads. Furthermore, people don’t take privacy very seriously. They say, “As long as I’m not doing anything wrong, who cares who’s watching me?” Concerningly, Turkle states, “High school and college students give up their privacy on MySpace about everything from musical preferences to sexual hang-ups.” The population has become satisfied by a certain public exposure; it is more validation than