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Today, gamers have a variety of ways to share their gaming experience. A gaming community called Twitch is where gamers can stream their gameplay to an audience. They can talk to their audience about the game and even stream for charities or their own personal donations. Since Twitch and video game streaming started gaining popularity, it has changed how gamers share their experiences. Twitch wasn’t always a video game streaming website. It originally started as a video streaming website known…

were on their way out the door shouting they loved their family, it was much more meaningful. Nowadays, we have “best friends” who say it every minute to each other but don’t really mean it. We even use technology to replace it for us, like using emoticons with heart eyes to say it rather than saying “ I love you” for ourselves. Falling in love is important when it comes to family. It’s the first step that you do to find your perfect soul mate, my parents tell me all of the time that it was…

How Technology Boom Today Changed The Way People Interact In recent years, advance technology has developed and in turns has change and adversely impacts our society. It also shows how technology of today affects our general way of interaction. The technology boom of today has taken away our traditional ways of communication which has negatively affected the life of many. Few of these effects area are lack of social skills, emotional disconnection and vanishing of family value. Majority of us…

How Texting Is Wrecking Our Language. [John Humphry’s] In this reading John Humphry’s graciously explains his old school approach to texting, and also his dislike of it as well. Humphry’s has many ideas in his writing that I can relate too some that I can not. He writes that the OED is something that he holds close to his heart, and that the OED is a useful tool. During this read I felt as if he had written it as a conversation that he had had with my dad. It took more than 15 years to get my…

Growing up in Poland I spent my youth horseback riding on Arabian horses and eating the sweetest strawberries from family garden. Early on, I was exposed to jazz and theater. The storytelling for adults; it is the oldest oral tradition on passing the universal message face to face. Where the audience deeply experiences their humanity. Some of my deep influences come from theater and Polish movie directors. I have learned how to skillfully read between the lines in post communism yet…

Culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time based on the Merriam-Webster. There are a lot of examples of culture based on the video clip. Culture is the festivals, events, dinning art scene, stories and customs, history, cool architecture, creative talents, public art, and outdoor places like park, farms and outdoor fountain, they are all part of the culture all of these things create activity and buzz. There are also a positive energy that is…

writing about it as a job. This strengthens his argument because he has actual credentials to present to the readers. To get people to view his points, he uses honesty as a tactic. He supports technology by asking “if technology is turning kids into emoticon-addled zombies, that is unable to connect, think, form a logical thought, or make eye contact” (Thompson 2), then following up with the statement “I don’t think so” (Thompson 2). He knows there is more to technology that meets the eye. He…

Texting (or should I say txting), has it gone too far? Did you know that the first ever text message was “Merry Christmas” all the way back in 1992? According to Charles Arthur, of The Guardian it’s true. The text message technology has significantly grown over the years and it shows! Since then, cell phone companies have expanded to allow apps, create an entire group conversation via text messages and so much more. From sending one text message, to the modern day, where millions of people…

Social media have gained astounding worldwide growth and popularity, which has led to attracting attention from a variety of researchers globally. Moreover, throw out the time; all generations have come to embrace the changes social network has brought about. Furthermore, social networking is a popular form of communicating, TV’s and news around the world. With the benefits of global connections come risks and negative impacts that we should avoid or ignore, such broken down face-to-face…

Rationale This editorial addresses the different types of language used across a variety of social relations and contexts through the examples of ‘baby talk’, which is the unique type of language and manner that adults tend to instinctively speak towards infants and young children, as well as how language has developed alongside social media, as a platform for a variety of social situations and contexts. This ranges from professional advertising to to private messaging, all the way to…