Summary Of The Documented Life By Sherry Turkle

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

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.

From this quote, one can clearly notice that entertainment serves as one of the many features of a smartphone. In a smartphone, entertainment consists of, but is not limited to news, books, music and many more included. With a smartphone, accessing these entertainments is much easier and more efficient for both millennial and past generations. Many can simply access these apps no matter what time or place, making one’s free time much more enjoyable. By using the entertainments on a smartphone, one could simply see that without a smartphone a person would not be able to enjoy certain apps and entertainments on the go. Furthermore, smartphones have shown to many users that entertainment for smartphones is not only easy to access, but also brings amusement to

According to Sherry Turkle in her essay “Growing Up Tethered,” children are too attached to their cell phones. Cell phones have began causing great issues on the teenagers in today’s society that include: not answering calls, separation, anxiety, and social media. Turkle interviewed many teenagers about certain topics that have to do with their cell phone. These teenagers brought up that they find their cell phones to be a break from their parents. Their parents find them to be a safe zone, they expect their child to answer the phone every time they call them.

What will we be like if we continue to develop intimate relationships with our devices? Will we be more connected than ever, or more alienated? In “Can You Hear Me Now?”, by Sherry Turkle, a professor of the social studies of science and technology, argues that technology has made people more connected, but has also made us more alienated from each other. How now, when in public people mostly want to be alone with their personal networks, or devices. People used to talk to one other as they waited in line, or rode on the bus or subway. Now we spend that downtime checking emails, responding to messages, or scrolling through our social media feed. Turkle says, “People become alienated from their own experience and anxious about watching a version of their lives scrolling along faster than they can handle” (p. 508). Our devices are increasingly becoming a part of us, an extension of our mind. Turkle does an amazing job at showing her case by stating evidence that is very relatable, along with real life examples, and feelings that her audience has felt while dealing with their devices.

Loss of Humanity Through Social Technology Civil, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), can be “Courteous and polite” (civil). Since the word civilization is a derivation of civil, one should expect a modicum of adherence to the norms of polite social intercourse between each other. Recently however, civility, compassion, and humanity is waning. Conversations between people are no longer face to face. Instead a majority prefer the impersonal; chatting and texting via smartphone, tablet or computer.

Humans can be distinguished in many features from animals. Some might ask what are some unique characteristics that only humans have. While some people believe that the learning differentiates between humans and animals, others think that souls and spirits differentiate humans from animals. In “Strange Creatures”, Susan Blackmore talks about the idea of imitation and the way that humanity creates “memes” that are a collection of cognitive units of information. Memes control human thoughts and actions. In Zadie Smith’s essay, “Speaking in tongues”, the author supports the idea of having plural selves, multiple voices to different people, and that an authentic self does not exist. Everything that is

Do we ever really experience being bored? In society we have two conflicting concepts, one is agency, the other is social construct. We, as an American culture value our agency and individuality. We value and praise those who become greater than their situation by choice and on their own, but do we really have agency? Do we really choose how we spend our time or has society created construct that we unconsciously follow. How many times do we pull out our phone and check it? Do we pull it out as a safety blanket, social escape, tool to show disinterest, or simply because we’re bored? Or do we pull it out because that is an expected norm in our society? We must have our phone on us all the time, or else we are being deviant and not contributing to society in the fullest manner. I wanted to know my own cell phone habits and how long I use my phone in one day. When do I find myself using my phone the most and vice versa, when do I use it the least? What are the social factors that caused phone use? Starting the experiment I assumed I didn’t use my phone too often and putting it away for one week was easily doable.

If I had a secret hero identity my name would be RockTurkey. I would use this name everyday as I go online to battle the evil doers in the digital realm. I would have lightning quick reflexes, incredibly smart mind, and the ability to quickly dispose of any foe with ease. However when I take off the persona I would be Koby Turk. I would have better than average reflexes, an approximant knowledge of many things, and be able to quickly disperse an argument because of those two combined. To how I got my superpowers is still unknown. I have a few ideas to where they may have come from. The first is that I inherited the powers through my bloodline. Mother and Father passing down their traits to their son. However I more believe I got then through

Human interaction is vital for us to grow and learn more about each other, but when we are always connected to some type of technology it is very challenging to disconnect and make connections with each other. Nowadays more people can be caught inside using some type of technology more than they are outside interacting with one another. Due to such an addiction to technology, many nerve fibers in the brain are similar to those of addicts, according to Chris Morris from CNBC. People now are on their phones while they wait on their food and while they are with each other more than

I feel that both the first and second passages contain accurate points regarding Teenagers time online.

Bourdieu introduction of this concept of cultural arbitraries can be found in the narration of the Doña Bárbara narrative: “Beneath Dona Barbara 's didactic narrative voice, which persistently seeks to establish unambiguous categories, lies an unsettling recognition of the instability of meanings” (Skurski 621). The instability of meanings is found in the actions of Santos, has he is violating accepted boundaries in the way of life for Altamira, under the influence of doña Bárbara: “Opposing forces traverse land and people, dissolving moral boundaries and awakening transgressive desires, thereby revealing the arbitrary marks of colonizing authority” (Skurski 621). Santos’s ultimate goal is to introduce the city’s dominant cultural ideas and place them into the town of Altamira. Additionally, Santos wants to change the direction of the town, from barbaric into civilized, because new ideas are important for both elite and poor: “The goal of seeking new sources of creativity within the nation accorded new value …dimensions of life that were important to both pueblo and elite” (Skurski 626). Santos introduces new sources of creativity for Altamira by rejecting the stance and influence that doña Bárbara presents to him, with his ideas of modernization for Altamira. Given that during the time that Santos has been away, studying law in the city, doña Bábara has been ruling over the landscape: “Doña Barbara (Lady Barbarian) rules despotically through her knowledge of primitive

People get distracted all the time by phones firstly, people get distracted a lot on their phones, tablets, computers, and any other piece of technology from the real life world. Technology keeps us all away from your family and friends. This can be very distracting when you can just be going outside with your friends and go do something else like play sports or play tag. Technology is way to distracting in these days because people don't even care about what is happening to the world anymore instead they are just sitting on their couch on

Cell phones take away the way, we as a people, to enjoy and indulge in events. Everyone doesn't live in the moment. Take the Chewbacca Experiment as an example, individuals who noticed probably took photos, point out how they were more aware of their surroundings to even recognize in the first place. Whereas the majority who didn’t see a “famous and legendary Wookiee from Star Wars” were phone gazing. People walk the streets and think they can multitask but this proves to be wrong it then becomes “intentional blindness” as a professor states in the article. Manny Fiori mentions, "people are so oblivious nowadays," while he

In this day and age we are glued to our smart phones. Everywhere you see everyone is either on the phone or they cannot help but to be on there phones. Just like how their are people out there are addicted to drugs and alcoholic, they are people out there addicted to their smart phones or anything to do with technology. And you might think that it is crazy or not true but I challenge you to go somewhere public and just to look around and you'll know what I am talking about. We live to be on our phones, we live to be on social media. It blows your mind to think how much technology has evolved since ten years ago and the difference it has created within people.