Alone Together By Adam Gopnik

rather than, actually enjoying it. We find ourselves so engrossed with our phones that we tend

During Mr. Rosenberg’s leave we learned different dramatic elements such as script analysis, stasis and intrusion, dramatic conflict, etc. This helps us to understand the different elements so one day when we have to apply the elements we will already be mindful of them. Additionally, we also learned about the beginning of theater dating back to ancient Greece and their different ways of displaying theater.

In her article “No Need to Call” Sherry Turkle says even though she uses technology to text her daughter and to communicate with other people she still thinks it's getting out of control. She opens the article by telling a story on Elaine, a 17 year old, who attends Roosevelt high school, who says that people hate talking on the phone. Sherry Turkle teaches in the program in science, technology, and society at MIT. She believes that Society will have reached a point to where phone calls are fearful. She explains that people are fearsome for calls because calls take all their attention and that no one has that much time. Turkle gives us an example by telling us a story of Tara, a 55 year old lawyer, who doesn't has time to call her friends so

Sherry Turkle’s primary argument in her essay, “Growing Up Tethered”, is the current generation of

The relationship between people has been changed because of the widely using of new technology. People can easily communicate with other people by using different kinds of methods. Because of the use of those methods, people have more space with others and frequently hide part of themselves on the Internet in order to show the best of them. In the essay “Small Change: Why he Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Malcolm Gladwell states that the relationship between people can be categorized by strong ties and weak ties. For example, in the past, people communicated by the method of interpersonal hierarchies, which are considered as strong ties. However, with the development of technology, social network, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Skype, which have become very popular in the world, are regarded as weak ties. Moreover, in the essay “Alone Together”, Sherry Turkle claims that people are distant with others and get lost in the virtual world through the new technology. She points out that now people communicate with others through technology instead of directing talking to real people. Furthermore, some people suppose that sociable robots as substitutes for people. Both Gladwell and Turkle agree with the idea that technology plays an important role on people’s connection. Technology only creates inauthentic relationship because it hides identity of many disorganized people.

Everyday technology has become a strain on the real world. People would rather have a conversation online than face to face. In today’s society, everything is seemed to be done online, whether it is having a conversation or even trying to make new friends. In The Flight from Conversation, Sherry Turkle asserts that technology has had a negative impact on how we socialize with one another, lessening the conversation. Turkle, who has spent years researching the relationship with technology and humans, uses real world situations where technology has not only changed the way someone socializes but has changed their persona and character making the audience feel pitiful and reflective of their own actions. The author also uses logical reasoning

Science fiction is a way for an author to express their concerns in the world while using fiction to bring up controversial ideas. In Unwind , Neal Shusterman is able to incorporate science fiction in a way to not only get his points across but to also make the reader think, and adjust the message to relate to one's own life. Unwind takes place in the future where it is an option for parents to choose to have their child unwound, meaning they would be taken from their family and taken apart. Their body parts would then be given to someone who is sick or injured. The reader is introduced to the main characters: three teenagers who have relatable backgrounds to teenage readers in order to help one connect and feel a part of the story. As readers start learning about these characters, Lev, Connor and Risa, new issues develop which create life or death situations that these adolescence have to deal with alone. While this story is science fictional the plot of these kids struggling to find who they are and what their purpose is, while their parents have given up on them, is something most readers can relate to in one way or another, whether it’s being unsure about the future, having family problems, or being told something can’t be done. In Unwind, the author, Neal Shusterman,

In this article the author, Howard Rheingold, describes his experience when he decided to visit the amish communities. There he discussed why they put self-imposed rules upon themselves. He realized it was not because they resented technology, the Amish love fancy barbeques and electric saws, but they saw that in the “english” world, people are being separated from their community. The amish decided they would try their hardest to avoid this separation caused by technological advances, “Look Who's Talking” by Howard Rheingold, convinces the reader to analyze the pros and cons of technology; to decide whether or not certain devices are beneficial towards people and their community.

There are few places on this Earth, if any, where the possibilities are truly endless. However, if you detach yourself from the physical world and emerge into the “online” world, you find that this just might actually be accurate in this realm. The World Wide Web has had so much to offer to us since the early 1990s, but with this comes controversy. Unleashed onto a plane of seemingly immeasurable freedom of anonymity, was the world ready for such responsibility? Since those early days when new emerging technology changed our lives immensely, have we at all become a better place, or have we bitten off more than we can chew, and doomed our human relations forever? Exploring these concepts are three in-depth articles, including: “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle, “The Loneliness of the Interconnected” by Charles Seife, and “Cybersexism” by Laurie Penny. Although it is thought that the Internet brings the world together, it actually does not help us politically, culturally, and economically like one would believe, as it makes us unable to be independent, isolates us from different points of view, and encourages real-world violence against women and other minority groups.

When we are addicted to technology, we will cause separation in our relationships with our loved ones. In “The Veldt”, the children

In this article, Reuter reporter, Bobbi Rebell describes the digital generation. In Evie case, she loses her job because of sending personal emails, finds out about the man that she loves with a different person on Facebook and decides to stay away from the digital world. But she ends up hurting her friends and being lonely.

Catherine Fishel once wrote, “Creating visual imagery is a state of mind. It involves the reproduction of what we see. But much more than that, it becomes an outlet to express feelings about what we experience.” In Adam Gopnik’s Bumping Into Mr Ravioli, creating visual imagery based on the experiences around is at the forefront of the story. In other words, we create a paracosm, or an imaginary world inside of our brain that is shaped by the observations we make on the world around us. The story details of a young three year old girl named Olivia, that has invented an imaginary friend named Charlie Ravioli. However, Charlie is too “busy” to play with Olivia, instead opting for bump and run tactics that exemplify the hectic nature of living in New York City (156). Furthermore, Olivia’s paracosm tells us that she is influenced directly from the lives of Adam Gopnik and his wife, who are unaware to the fact that they live a wealthy and hectic lifestyle that is prototypical in the city. As a result, the overall paracosm created by Olivia is negative because she is following in the footsteps of “busyness”, as opposed to industrious pathways that were led by historical legends such as Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Pepys (156).

However, when offering more money instead of more company become the definition of “love”, the basic become the ultimate purpose. Therefore, “what began means to the end- capitalization the means, a good living as the end- become the end itself” (Hochschild, p188). Capitalization used to be a tool for achieving the good life, while the incorrect ideas of wealth and the demand of the high pace cause the distorted value between earning money and accompanying. What is more, the economic value is not the only thing changed according to modernization. More seriously, the confirmations of self-images have been altered drastically. Turkle given the idea of “The Second Self” which means our new identities due to the widely used of the internet, she points out that, “In The Second Self, I traced the subjective side of personal computers- not what computers do for us but what they do to us, to our ways of thinking about ourselves, our relationships, our sense of being human”

The film “ Digital Nation” is an exploration of diverse people's views on digital media, in today's world. Some of the most important topics were on the virtual world, and the pros and cons of technology within different groups like gamers, students, families, teachers, administrators, children, military and businesses, as well as the experience of general people. In the movie, Prof. Sherry Turkle said, “Technology challenges us to assert our human values. Technology is not good or bad, is powerful, and it is complicated which means first we have to figure out what they are”. Currently, technology has taken over, wherever one, goes one will find it. Over the past years, social media in particular have spread worldwide; from Facebook to Instagram. There is constantly something new, extra advanced and creative. Overall, the technology has evolved the way humans interact with each other. In particular, technology influences by motivating students towards learning, saving time, building literacy and communication skills.

Politician Christian Lous Lange once said, “Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master.” Even though Lange spoke these wise words over a hundred years ago, their truth translates into today with ease. To better understand today’s interpretation, Sherry Turkle’s essay “Growing Up Tethered” acts as a useful tool. Her use of qualitative evidence is easily relatable creating plenty of opportunity for discussions. As a clinical psychologist, Turkle brings in a perspective unfamiliar to most STEM students. For exploration of how recently developed technologies affect our lives, “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle grants an intriguing first step towards lively classroom discussions.