Summary Of Whether It's Bikes Or Bytes By Danah Boyd

The author of the book The Dumbest Generation is concerned over young Americans and what the digital age is doing to them. Throughout the book he cites many percentages of young Americans who are dropping out of high school and college and he blames the digital era for it. The author loves the idea of traditional values and routine and he believes that due to the amount of technology that is rising, it is killing off those core values that students need in order to grow and stay productive. He also claims that younger adults abuse their time, and their priorities compared to the older generation have changed significantly. The reasons that he gives because of these changes are due to the digital media and the advances of technology that have gone up quickly within a few years. This results in adolescent teenagers who are abusing their time over the web. Instead of trying to study and learn they are on Facebook and other social networks.

“ Roman, eighteen admits that he texts while driving and he is not going to stop. I know I should, but it’s not going to happen. If i get a facebook message or something posted on my wall I have to see it. His friends admonish him, but then several admit to the same behavior” ( Sherry Turkle 236). Kids are tethered to their devices and the internet, they are willing to risk their lives and the lives of others just to stay connected with others online.

The use of technology has catalyzed society into an era that is increasingly interconnected yet impersonal at the same time. Despite technology’s endless list of assets, many fail to acknowledge its shortcomings when mentioning what is lost as a result of using it. Although in “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson, she is not afraid to share her skepticism of technology, as well as the role it plays in desensitizing individuals on a day-to-day basis. The internet is an invaluable resource to many because it is a public domain for sharing ideas, opinions, and knowledge that any and everyone can have access to. In a sense, it does not restrict what someone may see or do, and this can either be a good thing or a bad thing. The booming use of new media

Sherry Turkle's article "Growing Up Tethered" exposes the change in adolescent's demeanor while growing up in a technology-fueled world. This modern world inhibits growth towards independence, causes psychological problems, and an intense amount of pressure to uphold online identities. She opens up with various experiences today's youth have gone through trying to stay connected. Some go as far as to risk their own lives and the lives of others to check their phone.

¨The Undercover Parent¨ by Harlan Coben, published in an online newspaper (NewYorkTimes.com, March 16,2008), claims that the Internet is dangerous for kids. Harlan Coben explained how spyware could keep track of our kids, but it also invades the sons’ and daughters’ privacy. He also claims that parents should have conversations about their concerns with teens, and let them know spyware is a possibility. Coben started with an anecdote about spyware, presenting the topic, acknowledging hesitation, recognizing how parents feel, countering parental arguments, stating counterarguments, argues and claims about eavesdropping, suggests that parents should use spyware, and encourages the parents to use it. The author’s purpose is to warn the audience

Turkle discusses the online personalities adolescents form to gain more confidence in who they are. These personalities’ form a constant need to stay connected and these teens have developed the willingness to put themselves in danger to do so. The new generation of adolescents feel a pull to be at a beckons call to every notification delivered to their cellular device. She argues these teens have been raised in a different manner compared to those of whom were teenagers twenty years ago. All of these factors lead into a war between technology and society of which hinders our young people’s development. Adolescents are bound to the constant desire to have a connection to technology and the luxuries the technology

A reporter for CNN, Kelly Wallace, addresses her concern about the future generation in her article, “Half of Teens Think They’re Addicted To Their Smartphones.” After pointing out factual information from a variety of polls and reviews about mobile device usage, she expresses her panic over digital addiction. Not only does she mention teens suffering from this potential “public health threat,” but parents are added in as well. As Wallace collects information from various surveys, she also gathers opinions from parents and a digital detox expert named Holland Haiis. Throughout all the statistics Wallace mentions in her article, she also discretely mentions the importance of rules and boundaries. Regardless, the increasing amount of use

President Roosevelt once mentioned “we cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future” (1 Roosevelt). Indeed, parents cannot always provide the optimal environment for their children; however, parents can empower children to become prepared and civilized adults. Coben asserts in The Undercover Parent that computer spyware allows parents to protect their children from potential dangers of the web. In his writing, Coben establishes a boundary between parental concern and irresponsible meddling to address concerns regarding online privacy. He explicitly states it is a parent’s duty to be the “safety net” of their children, where spyware is an indispensable connection to the wired world of adolescents

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The internet was established in 1969(citeAPA) and had started becoming more sophisticated and popular around the early years of the Millennials. Hence, unlike the adults and older individuals from earlier generations, the millennial generation became familiar with the technological advancements at an age when their brains best develop and learn. The impact of learning during the teen years is pointed out by Jay N. Giedd, a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist, when he says, “Plasticity is the essence of adolescent neurobiology and underlies both the enormous learning potential and the vulnerability of the teen years.” Thus, as children observe new norms, such as taking selfies, become popularized, they quickly accept them as the normal and natural way to behave. Therefore, instead of mocking people of the millennial generation as being addicted to the internet, people of earlier generations must recognize that the newer generations have always lived in an internet-centered

From personal experience when I saw my dad buy my sister a new Iphone and Laptop when she was in 6th grade it got me mad because after that she wouldn’t go out with her friends as she use too, or wouldn’t do any fun activities. I wouldn’t want my kids to be a part of all this and just do nothing with their lives. I strongly agree with what Danah Boyd said about “Parents have projected their fears onto the internet, imagining all the potential dangers that youth might face-from violent strangers to cruel peers to pictures or words that could haunt them on google for the rest of their lives.” This is mostly the parents fault and they should do something about it because they are the ones teaching them the way of life , and by buying them new phones and anything like that when even they know their kids aren’t ready to handle it or just because the kid begs they should just say no and think about their

This assignment will identify how digital technology has made being an adolescence in the twenty first century is significantly different from previous generations. Young people in many ways are the same as they were over 100 years ago although digital technology has enabled young people to be social in many different ways. Young people are able to engage in face-to-face interactions like previous generations and at the same time they have the convenience and speed this new digital technology have produced. Both the positives and negatives of digital technology will be critically analysed. The Press Association (2014) raises a number of points about adolescence and digital technology. The amount of involvement parents has with their

A world where every action, feeling, and thought originates from what people interpret on a screen is the result of society’s obsession with the Internet. Turkle starts exposing how severely attached, or “tethered,” teenagers are to their cell phones and the digital world. This leads into a discussion on privacy, or the lack thereof. Expanding on that idea, Turkle writes about how teenagers are not able to claim independence due to the tie to their cell phones and thus those who pay for them, their parents (Turkle, 238). This lack of growth stunts their identity-forming process and further agitates their obsession with the world online. The accessibility of instant validation from peers, or strangers for that matter, on the Web entices people away from the real world around them. Turkle

Throughout the past decade information has never been easier to acquire. According to a study done by the International Telecommunication Union around 47% of the population has access to the Internet. This means almost 1 in every 2 people has the ability to have an average question answered by the click of a button (ITU, 2016). People across the globe can meet, express themselves, and in some cases work together to solve common problems thanks to online chat rooms. Modern culture, especially for millennials, revolves around and is based off of the internet; yet, people are oblivious to the extensive amount of information they willingly trade to the world in order to receive these many small benefits. So much personal information is being sold to advertisers that the question on whether teens should have access to the internet begins to grow. Restriction from the internet would help protect teens from advertisers building a profile on them, learning their personal information, and persuading them to buy from certain brands. Advertisers establishment of brand names can influence teens to prefer unhealthy food options and increase childhood obesity. Excessive use of the internet by millennials, however, shows that this solution poses the risk of keeping teens from using and benefiting from internet applications such as google classroom,

Although we now have such luxuries it is every parents responsibility to make sure their children's reliance on such things are limited to convenience not survival. Timothy L. Husley said, "We have come to accept virtual as real, on-line as social, and facebook as face to face."