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treatment camps for internet addicts. (De 1) Many people who play videogames agree that they are addicting. But, what they don’t know is they’re falling into a trap. “One of the main reasons video games are so addictive is they are designed to be that way. Video game designers are looking to make a profit.” (Video Game Addiction Symptoms, Causes, Effects 1) So, as the designers are making their money, users are losing theirs.…

With the growing popularity of social media and its increasing involvement with matters both domestic and worldwide, individuals have begun to gravitate toward being “techno-optimists” or “techno-pessimists”, with many left somewhere in between. We are surrounded by TV programs telling us how to look, videogames telling us what races are “good” or “bad”, and the whitewashing of nerd culture it’s not difficult to see why some are pessimistic about social media, especially with its role in…

Game , online and offline, has become a national pastime and hobby for many. With the adoption of console gaming, the trend has gone from the desktop computer, to the big screen television in your living room. With the introduction of console gaming, the age group of gamers has gone from adulthood to elementary aged kids. Several effects have come about since the dawn of gaming and have gone even further, since console gaming began its trend. Some effects are good, but with every good effect,…

With nearly 91% of today’s children ages two to seventeen playing video games, one can see that technology is influencing our kids dramatically (CNET).Video games on phones, iPads, and additional games are mainly stationary games that seem to be making many of today’s kids less active and less social as their eyes are glued to their devices. Unlike a gaming systems such as the Wii which only senses the remote moving, and can easily be fooled into saying one is moving, Xbox has created the Kinect…

Every star has a specific image and reputation of how they are perceived by people. This specific view, also known as the star text, is “formed by everything that the audience affiliates them with, such as their body of work, promotion, publicity and audience practices” (Jackson). Celebrities change their star text to shift the way they are perceived by the people and to be taken seriously. In the case of Ariana Grande, the Nickelodeon starlet has successfully managed to outgrow her previous…

In today’s society, the use of technology has been becoming more and more recent. Lots of people, including parents and children of all ages are getting involved with it. Parents are starting to lose touch with reality with their own parenting. The question is, who’s more powerful? Technology or parents? It all depends on how you look at it. Technology is becoming more powerful and parents don't see it happening. According to Jim Taylor Ph.D., author of “Parenting: Who is More Powerful:…

Riddell Sports’ best option for the promotion of their products is through media exposer and the use of press releases. The success of the product will be credited to its ability to perform efficiently, and the popularity gained in part will increase with time. The attractiveness of a product that offers increased comfort and protection will grow and mature adjusting to the feedback obtained from the consumer’s opinions and product’s reviews. When the product reaches a stages of maturity that…

the students and students can also create recordings to collect information. For the digital immigrant, it is much like how we used cassette tapes and recorders or in today’s world the CD player and recorder. It is material that is an audio and video distributed online. The purpose of reviewing the dynamics of podcasting is to recognize podcasting as a learning tool. Teachers and students can record and listen to information later. There is greater engagement, more discussions, and…

Case study 1 Apocalypse and the influence of 9/11 on the apocalyptic movies Apocalypses have always been in people their heads, the thought of the end of the world has been and still is really popular in the film industry. Bendle says “Apocalypses are one of the oldest narrative forms, and they have informed some of the most imaginative and terrifying imagery in cultural history” (Bendle, 2005). In the years before 9/11 the apocalypse movies, books and magazines have been a great and widely…

The true definition of an engineer changes depending on the person defining it. For an infant in the depths of the Saharan desert, an engineer is the person who fixes the pump that brings water to her village; for a teenager hooked on video games, an engineer is the messiah who reboots his virus-stricken computer right back up to normal. Amongst this variety of definitions, however, lies a singular fundamental linking factor: an engineer is someone who makes a positive impact in your life by…