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However, the internet has evolved further since that study was conducted. Voice and webcam based online interactions make up for the shortcomings that were clearly exhibited in instant messaging. That however doesn’t mean that instant messaging doesn’t serve a good purpose if anything it now has a more specialized role in communication. Through a series of interviews and surveys experts concluded that instant messaging could in fact be used as a way of maintaining existing relations (Quan-Haase and Young, 2010). The profiles themselves are equally important as a medium of communication. A psychology based study found that Facebook profiles allowed for “selective self-presentation” in the internet which was shown to lead to a boost in the formation of new relationships (Gonzales and Hancock, 2011). We can see therefore that while a single type of internet communication isn’t enough to fully satisfy the nature of communication as outlined by Mehrabi (1972), a combination of different types will have the same social effect and help to offset most of the negatives that comes with one form or another. This demonstrates to us how remediation has occurred with communication and the internet and that while it hasn’t evolved into a single set medium, the internet as a whole has allowed for multiple mediums (instant messaging, video calling etc. etc.) to take from the medium of face to face conversations and for it all to be remediated. Hence we can see that the internet through…

social media about an event, it actually gives to a conversation topic to discuss. Social media is only as impersonal as we choose it to be. Morris mentions the possible miscommunications that comes from a written text message. However, this is not the fault of technology itself. Conversations can be had over a cell phone or a video chat. Text messages can also be easily clarified by asking what the other person meant by sending a certain text. Miscommunications happen with or without the…

person. “Social Capital Theory as it was developed in the 1990’s, assumed that face-to-face interaction is a crucial requirement for the development of generalized trust and other pro-social attitudes and behavior” (Ito and Bittani). Mr. Ito and Mr. Bittani conducted an investigation known as The Digital Youth Project and studied living and learning with new media among teenagers. The men found that online interactions often lead to “offline” interactions between teens. Teenagers often use…

Did you know that loneliness increases your death risk by 26 percent, while social isolation and living alone increases mortality risk by 29 percent? This study was created by researchers at the Brigham Young University (Corbett). There was a kid that lived in Korea that played games all of the time. He forgot to eat, drink and do everything needed to live. While he was playing his game he collapsed and died on the spot from malnutrition. The reason he stayed on the computer so long was for the…

In the essay Isolated by the Internet, the author Clifford Stoll argues about negative influences of the internet on our social life. According to Stoll’s argument, the internet harms and weakens people’s social relationships. Moreover, Stoll quotes the research of psychologist Kraut and Lundmark which concludes that, “greater use of the Internet was associated with small but statistically significant declines in social involvement as measured by communication within the family and the size of…

Chris Cheney 3/6/2016 Writing 121 Professor Christofili The Impact of Text Messaging Now days in a world full of technology, cell phones are slowly changed the way we communicate with others. Almost everybody I know has a cell phone, whether they actually use half of the features that the phone is made for is another story. The most popular use for cell phones is text messaging. This is an instant messaging service that allows people to communicate back and forth very quickly and almost…

Mcdonalds freewrite (5 minutes) So the whole situation happened when I looked at my schedule on 1/3/2016 and noticed that I was working from 8:00am-10:30am on 1/7/2016 Wednesday. It was weird how I was scheduled to work two and a half hours because I have not been scheduled to work that short amount of time in about a whole year. Nevertheless, I was not disappointed because my great grandmother was turning 88 on that day. So I made plans to spend time with her after work. On 1/6/2016 I double…

Many writers post articles about this new generation destroying department stores, diamonds, golf, and more. Jean M. Twenge’s article titled “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” appears to take on the same point of view. However, she focused on behaviors and emotional health. She avoided bashing the post-Millennial generation (referred to as iGen) and instead studied the effects of the smartphone. Twenge completed research to show that, while physically safer, the new generation of…

On average, how much time do you spend on the internet? If you said around 8 hours, then you fall under the majority of Americans. In the popular novel "What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains: The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, Carr explains how the internet is changing our mindset and making us more shallow hence the title of the book. Carr also describes how we are less capable of doing our own work because we have access to popular search engines such as Google or Yahoo. In the novel "What the…

someone know you are pleased, sad, angry or happy with punctuation. Does this bring to mind some of the drawing we found in the caves of cavemen? Cellphones have also opened up the world to us. In the old days when you dialed an area code and the number long distance charges applied to the call. Now most cellphone plans are unlimited long distance, meaning you can call anywhere, anyone at any time. Cellphone data plans allow us to communicate using data via programs like Facebook and IChat…