Social Scientist And Author Sherry Turkle

altar and instinctively turned to face her future husband. As the man returned her gaze, he reflected on what it had cost him to arrive at this point. He had spent thousands of dollars and attended countless appointments with both psychologists and scientists. However, he knew that the outcome would ultimately be a relationship he could rely on. The minister began to

a businessman or a doctor, everyone is dependent on technology. Sherry Turkle, the author of “Alone Together” tells us about the connections between technology such as robots,

point where it is demonstrating humans and reacting to our responses and needs. We are asking robots to basically become assistants, “Some people are asking to do daily chores, while others either hope for a mechanical bride or a sociable robot”. If scientists are able to create and design a robot that can handle the tasks I aforementioned our daily life would be altered. For instance, majority of us would have a housemaid, a friend and a mechanic. The true question is: Are we only inserting these robots

Understanding Ourselves in the Age of the Internet In her book, Life on Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, author Sherry Turkle explains the effect technology has on the way individuals view themselves, and how this relates to the growth of postmodernist thinking. According to Turkle, the rapid expansion of network technology, specifically the Internet, is responsible for introducing millions of people to new spaces and ways of interactivity with one another. This revolutionary

doubts whether human beings have the rights to use the technology in order to meet their needs. Likewise, the essay “Alone Together” written by Sherry Turkle argues that individuals will gradually lose their authenticity in cyber space, and the cyber alteration will break up the stable society, which will result in complete isolation. Both of the two authors give the potential alert about how the advanced technology will affect individuals’ ethical standards. Even though people try to regulate new

these advanced techniques may cause some problems in social and personal aspects. In the essay “Alone Together”, the author, Sherry Turkle, illustrates that the technology not only does offer convenience to people, but also leads people to have inauthentic feelings and self-denial behaviors. Moreover, the intimacy offered by robots leads people to stop communicating with other human beings, and to abandon their real lives. Similarly to Turkle, in another work “Who Holds the Clicker?” the

Video game violence has remained a controversy for numerous years. With the advancement of technology, video games have progressed in its practicality and genres. Technology has allowed video games to become very sophisticated and lifelike. This development has brought video games to a multi-billion dollar industry. Nevertheless, with the level of practicality, there are also negative affects to humanity. Since the manufacture of violent video games, there has been a constant quarrel whether or not

Habitat project (Farmer). The term came to popular consciousness with the success of the novel SnowCrash (Stephenson). Discussions of the nature of the avatar are often mixed with current cyborg theory. Although the avatar and the cyborg share numerous social constructions and identity politics, in the interest of developing an understanding of the avatar, it is necessary to distinguish it from its cousin, the cyborg. 2.1. The Human Enhanced The term cyborg was coined in 1960 with the appearance

NAME OF PROJECT: THE EFFECTS OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA ON RELATIONSHIP TRENDS BY: SARAI WANJIKU NJENGA I.D # : 621920 A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE JOURNALISM PROGRAM IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE JRN 3024 COMMUNICATION RESEARCH USIU JOURNALISM PROGRAM 2011 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this is my original work. It has not been presented to any other institution for any other purpose. Name : Sarai Wanjiku Njenga Signature : ____________________