Category Archives: Science and Technology

The Myth of Multitasking

People like to multitask; Students especially. Even in a classroom, students listen to the professor lecture, talk to a friend next to them, instant message, and type notes. I just watch them multitask, and I’m distracted. The current generation of … Continue reading

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Communication Greater Than Privacy?

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the numerous other apps that have given us the freedom to share our entire lives with the tap of a touch screen, where does it end? There are over a billion active users on Facebook since … Continue reading

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Younger Brother Watching Over Big Brother

In our generation, we spend hours a day scanning the different screens of the internet.  Whether you’re looking for sports, something to do later that night, or the most recent episode of Tosh.0, the internet is an incredibly tool for … Continue reading

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News or The Nonsense You Want to Tell me?

It has become pretty clear that receiving news is no longer strictly available through just television or newspapers. Personally for me, I have always found the three minutes where news anchors are throwing 10 different stories whether exciting or depressing … Continue reading

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New Media: Destruction of civilize Society!

The internet provides everyone to have any type of information in their fingertips, literally. This mass of information has created a new form of media that author; James Fallows title as, “Shallow, divisive, Unreliable”. This article has made me realize … Continue reading

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You’re Simply Not the Same in the Presence of the Camera

It’s just one of those things that stems in us from childhood. From the moment someone finds us too cute to be true and has to take a picture, the celebrity is born. We become someone else or a different … Continue reading

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New Media Technology Is Good For Our Future

New technology has often been criticized for the lack of professionalism, whether through new shows on television or the use of twitter and other social media. The benefits, in my opinion, outweigh the negatives. This new format of news allows … Continue reading

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A Trend That Will Never Disappear: Journalism

Millions of blogs, podcast, and articles are visible to anyone with a computer today. With the single click of a mouse or smart phone, a user can access publications the minute they are released. As convenient as the rapidness of … Continue reading

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Literacy Revolution: Modern Technology is Destroying Print Publications with Viral Publications

In these first two weeks, I have noticed both my summer courses taking a focus on traditional literacy versus modern technology. Through various readings I have come to the conclusion, that most forms of reading, which are printed, are becoming … Continue reading

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Is Illusion Becoming Our Preference?

“We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men.” T.S. Eliot used this line in his poem, “The Hollow Men”, to illustrate the emptiness that pervaded society after World War I. I couldn’t help but think of this prolific … Continue reading

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