Response to Reading

          The position that a writer holds in the world influences the way they present stories or approach sides of an argument.  For example, one who has experienced for themselves death and destruction in society would write differently about catastrophes like this than someone who has been sheltered and cannot relate to those it is affecting.  

          The image on page 500 of the boys smiling and holding a sign containing pictures of suffering to raise money for tsunami, probably have not experienced such suffering as what they are displaying on their poster.  The original caption was positive, in that they were doing something very nice for the victims, but someone from a different position in life that has maybe gone through tragedy might view the display of suffering people as unethical.  People are affected by their positions in life and usually judge things based on their experiences.  Writers and reporters are usually biased because we cannot help but judge from our own experiences.  Good reporting is considered unbiased, but this is very difficult to do because we view the world through our different positions in life.

Annotated Bibliography

Baron, Naomi S. "Letters by Phone or Speech by Other Means: the Lingusitics of Email." Language & Communication. Web. <http://american.edu/cas/lfs/faculty-docs/upload/Letters-by-Phone-1.pdf>.

This article is focused on the development of communication like emails and letters.  It mentions telephones and telegraphs and different ways to communicate that changed over time.  It also talks about technology and how it has evolved.  This is helpful in collecting facts about technology changing over time.

Biocca, Frank. "ScienceDirect - Journal of Adolescent Health : New Media Technology and Youth: Trends in the Evolution of New Media." ScienceDirect - Home. Aug. 2000. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X00001361>.

This article is about how young people communicate through different forms of technology and absorb information differently because of this.  It is mainly focused on how technologies influence the thinking processes and social behavior of teens and young adults.  This is interesting for comparing to the thinking processes of older people how did not grow up with the internet.  It introduces the idea of long-term cognitive changes in people who have grown up with technology because of its extreme influence on our lives.

Bonebrake, Katie. CyberPsychology & Behavior. December 2002, 5(6): 551-557. doi:10.1089/109493102321018196. Web. 10 Oct. 2011.

This source is about online relationship development and includes and study about internet use and relationship formation because the effect of the internet on social relationships is a fairly new area of study.  It also touches on loneliness and social skills in students.  It mainly examines online relationships opposed to relationships formed in person, without use of the internet.

Bull, G., Thompson, A., Searson, M., Garofalo, J., Park, J., Young, C., & Lee, J (2008). “Connecting

informal and formal learning: Experiences in the age of participatory media.” Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 8(2), 100-107. Web. 12 Oct. 2011.

This source is about how learning through media and technology is informal sometimes but then can lead to formal learning.  It shows the positive side of technology and how it is very helpful to connect to students in this day and age, even informally.  It explains how technology should be used as a tool and not discouraged.

Campbell, Marilyn. “The Impact of the Mobile Phone on Young People’s Social Life.” In Social Change in the 21^st Century Conference, 28 Oct. 2005. Web. 13 Oct. 2011.

This is an interesting article about the impact of mobile phones on social lives.  For example, it explains positive and negative effects that the phone has on peer groups, families, and schools for students.  It provides a new perspective on the effects of technology on today’s youth and how mobile phone, specifically, influence their social lives.

Engelberg, Elisabeth, & Sjöberg, Lennart. CyberPsychology & Behavior. February 2004, 7(1): 41-47. doi:10.1089/109493104322820101. Web. 10 Oct. 2011.

The article is about internet use and social skills.  It includes a study about people using the internet having issues with loneliness, and balancing between work and leisure time.  This could be an effect of technology in general.  Personalities were also tested, but there were no relationships found between personality and internet usage so basically all types of people use the internet.  However, it does include results about how internet users are usually lonely, and lack the emotional and social skills of those who do not use the internet as much.

Harman, J. P., Hansen, C. E., Cochran, M. E., & Lindsey, C. R. CyberPsychology & Behavior. February 2005, 8(1): 1-6. doi:10.1089/cpb.2005.8.1. Web. 11 Oct. 2011.

This source is also about how the internet affects social lives of teens and young adults.  It also talks about how the internet can affect self-esteem, anxiety, and aggression.  It explains the relationship between social relationships and the internet, and the various types of social interaction that the internet can provide.

Kemp, Nenagh. “Texting Versus Txting: Readying and Writing Text Messages, and Links with Other Linguistic Skills.” Oxford Journals, 2(1), 53-71. 17 June, 2010. Web. 10 Oct. 2011.

This source contains information about how texting has increased throughout the world in the last decade.  It talks a lot about how texting affects language skills in young adults.  The source talks about different studies and their results and also goes through an experiment of its own to test whether young people read and write text messages better in proper English or using text abbreviations.  It also tested the hypothesis that there is a relationship between texting ability and language ability.  It gives a lot of valuable information about texting.

Kennedy, G. E., Judd, T. S., Churchward, A., Gray, K. & Krause, K.-L. (2008). First year students' experiences with technology: Are they really digital natives? Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 24(1), 108-122. Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet24/kennedy.html>.

This source is about what technology is doing to the youth of today.  It takes the position that they have grown up with all of this technology and it is affecting the way they think.  It explains how children today process information differently than those before them.  The source also talks about how familiar technology is for students, and shows an example of how this information is important in the real world for universities and such.

 

Lenhart, A., Madden, M., & Hitlin, P. “Teens and Technology: Youth are leading the transition to a fully wired and mobile nation.” Specialist 2005. Web. 18 Oct. 2011.

This source contains a lot of statistics and information about teen’s use of the internet.  It explains how internet use has increased significantly since 2000 and it is continuing to grow.  The article also talks about how instant messaging is much more popular than emailing which is interesting because instant messaging is hardly used anymore because there are tons of new ways to get in touch with people.  This article was written in 2005 so it shows how fast technology changes and improves over time.

Morahan-Martin, Janet., & Schumacher, Phyllis. “Loneliness and Social Uses of the Internet.” Computers in Human Behavior, 19(6), 659-671. Nov. 2003. Web. 13 Oct. 2011.

This source is about loneliness and the internet.  It touches on social relationships forming because of the internet but it mainly focuses on how the internet causes loneliness and also how lonely people are drawn to the internet.  People don’t have to be themselves on the internet and it brings confidence so that they can more easily handle social situations on the internet opposed to real life.

Valkenburg, Patti M., & Peter, Jochen. "Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents." Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(1). Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/18/1/1.short>.

This source is about the internet’s effect on adolescents and social consequences of this relationship.  It talks about social connections and the well-being of young people who use the internet.  It has information from both sides: saying that the internet is bad for adolescents, and those that see the positive side of the internet.