postmodern times, multiple identities are not regarded at the margins of things. Postmodernism also views consumption as a passive act, when every product is mass-produced and rehashed a thousand times before, the new frontier is mass customization. Alvin Toffler (1980) argues that the decline of consumers in post-industrial age is replaced by prosumers, people who produce their own goods and services. Social media is a great example of how users are a producer and consumer altogether. Axel…
As of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the internet, together with the many devices used for access to the internet, have grown to be a major part of the American lifestyle. The internet and screen time now have a major impact on the way that Americans perform daily tasks. Screen time is the time spent on visual media (“The Impact of Media”). Although these technological advancements have enhanced American society, this information age has also derailed certain aspects of society. “…
“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal” (Alvin Toffler). Many times what causes one to lose their sense of sanity is several events joined together to create an enormous problem for the individual. In the tragedy Macbeth written by William Shakespeare this is exactly what happens, Macbeth is a relatively normal man who is currently fighting for his country however, after many self induced events that took place throughout the play in order to make Macbeth…