Introduction
In today's world people lives consist of their ipods, cellphones, and laptops, that is most people's main priority. People are absorbed by the technology around them because they are not themselves anymore such as when people were doing their video projects and they alienate themselves causing them to be lifeless monsters. In today's society people are addicted to digital media and obsessed with latest technology just as they do in the book Feed. Society are using digital devices which allows us to become socially challenged and give us an excuse to be lazy which relates to the movie Wall-E. Overall the digital world has a big impact on life today and affects us significantly. Digitization causes people to alienate themselves from the outside world (real world),become addicted to their devices and develop lazy behavior (unhealthy lifestyles) which negatively impacts their lives of digital uses.
Argument 1:
Digital media causes people to leave the real world and enter a place where they become motionless/new person. It causes a person to not know what is going around just what is right in front of the world. The video project that we have done in the past had caused us to be like zombies and we did not realize what the digital things were doing to us such as being so focused on a computer screen or listening to their music etc. Looking at the videos, you see people become so hypnotized by their screens and they switch their minds to different modes which make them to alienate themselves from other things such as errands, work you seem to forget the real world. In Stephanie's thoughts on her video project she said "After watching my video i looked like i wasn't really there...i was to into the game like moving the control from side to side when in reality that has no effect...They should be played in moderation."Matthew also said "when I saw my video, I thought that I looked really entertained. I was on the computer, my phone, and my ipod at the same time. I do this everyday when I get home so it felt natural to me" this shows that digital devices allow people to close out the world, they get so sucked in the image of this digital thing that people become this like digital person within not even who they are. Its as if they have split personalities. People are possessed by the screen having not ate for 2 hours and not sleeping for a whole day. If people allow themselves to stare at a screen for hours, slouching, hair all messed up that is not good for them.There is much disembodiment going on when people are using digital devices. Their body is there physically but the state of mind is on the screen.
Argument 2:
Society today has become overly addicted to their digital devices. The book Feed relates to the lifestyle as the digital media today because the story is based on us. Just as teens are listening to their "feeds" and always trying to buy the newest technology. Its kind of like we have a feed ourselves except its in television, cellphones, and other digital devices which we become overly obsessed with. Feed, i believe is a parable of modern teenage life. We do not really think for ourselves and are socially lazy with everything we do. Titus and the other characters in the book besides Violet are addicted to what their Feed tell them to do because they rely on it and use it as a communication for everything just as we do today. Titus looks into his Feed and becomes distant from the world because he watches television in his head, his relationships with his friends and family are nothing more than a digital connection that does carries no emotions. In one part of the book Titus says "I was currently disconnected from feed net, of course and i was starting to get scared...I missed the Feed. I don't know when they first had feeds. Before that they used their hands and eyes. Computers were all outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe." Once Titus's Feed was hacked and he did not what to do with himself he was so used to the Feed and addicted to it. Its as if he lost his whole life. He forgot to live real life and how to feel real things, everything that natural for him is actually fake. Its as if he believes something that is not there, he became so brainwashed. People are under control of the Feed and are not allowed to think for themselves.
Argument 3:
Using these new digital devices it allows us to become socially challenged and give us an excuse to be lazy. People were so disfigured by the technology that when they were left alone they did not know how to find themselves which cause them to have a unhealthy lifestyle. In the movie Wall-E, Wall-E had entered some sort of spaceship where all these people were attached in a chair busy watching a digital screen he accidentally bumped into a lady causing the digital screen to dis attach and turn it off. When this happened the lady was in shock and did not realize her surroundings. She seemed brainwashed, she did not know there was a pool in the premise. She was so distracted by the digital stuff. Previous from that Wall-E had knocked down a man and he was so over weighted he could not get up. The technology was leading them to a harmful habits in life. The robots and the chairs took care of their every need having them not do anything causing them to gain weight. The people have become so depended on them it makes them less worry about other things and focus on themselves. They closed out the rest of the world and care about what is happening in front of them. Its unhealthy for them to sit there and nothing using no physical activity or exercise. In a source that i read said "i work 10 hours a day on a computer which made my health and also isolated me from other people in my job which caused mental health issues too." Sitting around all day on a computer screen or using digital devices doing nothing productive rises health issues mentally and physically. Another source i read that was written on Kaboodle website a person put up a post saying the following: "I decided to post obesity among children because I noticed that one of the common problems of children today is becoming overweight. Maybe because of today’s generation, modern technology including Internet gaming can be one factor that cause obesity. I observed that children are lack of physical activities such as exercise, running, jogging, playing outside, and involve in sports, they become addicted in Internet gaming." Just like in the movie Wall-E, in modern day today people are becoming excessively overweight being attracted to the Feed of the Internet and video gaming and do not realize they are jepodarizng their own health. This also brainwashes the people and kind of shows they do not know what they are actually doing to their lives.
In today's world people lives consist of their ipods, cellphones, and laptops, that is most people's main priority. People are absorbed by the technology around them because they are not themselves anymore such as when people were doing their video projects and they alienate themselves causing them to be lifeless monsters. In today's society people are addicted to digital media and obsessed with latest technology just as they do in the book Feed. Society are using digital devices which allows us to become socially challenged and give us an excuse to be lazy which relates to the movie Wall-E. Overall the digital world has a big impact on life today and affects us significantly. Digitization causes people to alienate themselves from the outside world (real world),become addicted to their devices and develop lazy behavior (unhealthy lifestyles) which negatively impacts their lives of digital uses.
Argument 1:
Digital media causes people to leave the real world and enter a place where they become motionless/new person. It causes a person to not know what is going around just what is right in front of the world. The video project that we have done in the past had caused us to be like zombies and we did not realize what the digital things were doing to us such as being so focused on a computer screen or listening to their music etc. Looking at the videos, you see people become so hypnotized by their screens and they switch their minds to different modes which make them to alienate themselves from other things such as errands, work you seem to forget the real world. In Stephanie's thoughts on her video project she said "After watching my video i looked like i wasn't really there...i was to into the game like moving the control from side to side when in reality that has no effect...They should be played in moderation."Matthew also said "when I saw my video, I thought that I looked really entertained. I was on the computer, my phone, and my ipod at the same time. I do this everyday when I get home so it felt natural to me" this shows that digital devices allow people to close out the world, they get so sucked in the image of this digital thing that people become this like digital person within not even who they are. Its as if they have split personalities. People are possessed by the screen having not ate for 2 hours and not sleeping for a whole day. If people allow themselves to stare at a screen for hours, slouching, hair all messed up that is not good for them.There is much disembodiment going on when people are using digital devices. Their body is there physically but the state of mind is on the screen.
Argument 2:
Society today has become overly addicted to their digital devices. The book Feed relates to the lifestyle as the digital media today because the story is based on us. Just as teens are listening to their "feeds" and always trying to buy the newest technology. Its kind of like we have a feed ourselves except its in television, cellphones, and other digital devices which we become overly obsessed with. Feed, i believe is a parable of modern teenage life. We do not really think for ourselves and are socially lazy with everything we do. Titus and the other characters in the book besides Violet are addicted to what their Feed tell them to do because they rely on it and use it as a communication for everything just as we do today. Titus looks into his Feed and becomes distant from the world because he watches television in his head, his relationships with his friends and family are nothing more than a digital connection that does carries no emotions. In one part of the book Titus says "I was currently disconnected from feed net, of course and i was starting to get scared...I missed the Feed. I don't know when they first had feeds. Before that they used their hands and eyes. Computers were all outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe." Once Titus's Feed was hacked and he did not what to do with himself he was so used to the Feed and addicted to it. Its as if he lost his whole life. He forgot to live real life and how to feel real things, everything that natural for him is actually fake. Its as if he believes something that is not there, he became so brainwashed. People are under control of the Feed and are not allowed to think for themselves.
Argument 3:
Using these new digital devices it allows us to become socially challenged and give us an excuse to be lazy. People were so disfigured by the technology that when they were left alone they did not know how to find themselves which cause them to have a unhealthy lifestyle. In the movie Wall-E, Wall-E had entered some sort of spaceship where all these people were attached in a chair busy watching a digital screen he accidentally bumped into a lady causing the digital screen to dis attach and turn it off. When this happened the lady was in shock and did not realize her surroundings. She seemed brainwashed, she did not know there was a pool in the premise. She was so distracted by the digital stuff. Previous from that Wall-E had knocked down a man and he was so over weighted he could not get up. The technology was leading them to a harmful habits in life. The robots and the chairs took care of their every need having them not do anything causing them to gain weight. The people have become so depended on them it makes them less worry about other things and focus on themselves. They closed out the rest of the world and care about what is happening in front of them. Its unhealthy for them to sit there and nothing using no physical activity or exercise. In a source that i read said "i work 10 hours a day on a computer which made my health and also isolated me from other people in my job which caused mental health issues too." Sitting around all day on a computer screen or using digital devices doing nothing productive rises health issues mentally and physically. Another source i read that was written on Kaboodle website a person put up a post saying the following: "I decided to post obesity among children because I noticed that one of the common problems of children today is becoming overweight. Maybe because of today’s generation, modern technology including Internet gaming can be one factor that cause obesity. I observed that children are lack of physical activities such as exercise, running, jogging, playing outside, and involve in sports, they become addicted in Internet gaming." Just like in the movie Wall-E, in modern day today people are becoming excessively overweight being attracted to the Feed of the Internet and video gaming and do not realize they are jepodarizng their own health. This also brainwashes the people and kind of shows they do not know what they are actually doing to their lives.
Conclusion
Digital technology is kind of like brain damage. It sucks everything out of you and insert all these digital thoughts in your head. Cellphones, ipods, computers, are brainwashing materials that consent us to leading unhealthy lives and pull us down. Digitization i believe is also like a cover-up to cover all the blemishes like when we go on computers and become this whole motionless person. We allow ourselves to isolate each other causing us to be addicted leading yourselves to technical difficulties with our bodies physically and mentally.
Opposing Views
Even though the digital world has a lot of bad things about it, it also has some good thing about it too. It allows you to keep in contact with close family/friends which is a great use. Also its a faster way to do things such as checking the weather or looking up things you need instead of other things that take too long. Digital devices allow you to think about things you never thought about before. A quote that Andy wrote on the board is a positive aspect on the digital world is that "the constant improvement of digital technology has helped the economy while simultaneously reducing resource consumption and social communication in our age has lessened loneliness and helped people live happier lives." Things like love dating websites and websites where you can interact with people and show them your true identity without actually meeting them and with dating websites you can find someone you are compatible with with a simple survey instead of blind dates.
Connections
This connects to everything bad is good for you because the author says that the digital world allows you to open up to things you never thought of but other people believe it is bad because reading came first. Is it possible that if digital came first and reading came second would people feel the same way or would they think digital devices are better. This also connects to the book Feed, Wall-E, and the video experiment that was done which was already mentioned in my arguments. All three of these texts showed how digitization creates isolation leading to addiction causing you to get bad health issues.
Significance
Digitization is significant because it allows you to think about how it helps you and affects you in many ways. Its kind of like a new millennium. Its important how digitization can be made into one thing and transformed to multiple things affecting society and the world good and bad. Its significant in a way that others use it for useful things while others abuse it. I think that its important how we get to see how digitization can be really bad for you and branch out to so many things but then at the same time its good for you and can allow you to open your eyes to bigger ideas and learn more.
Work cited
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090117143603AAMuqIT
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