Technology And Empathy : The Use Of Technology And Empathy

One of the most significant aspect of the negative effects of technology is the lack of empathy and emotion shown by the characters in ‘Feed’. The society in ‘Feed’ have been raised in a world were the need to show emotion and empathy has vanished. The requirement of talking face to face is taken away as everything is done digitally, through the feed. The characters are paying more attention to the ‘bannering’ in their heads than their surroundings, thus reducing the skill empathy and emotion. When Titus goes to visit Violet when the feed has forced her into a ‘vegetable’ state, he recognised that the

The writer of a fiction text uses plot, setting and characters to create imagery and influence the reader's response to how the author wishes the reader to perceive a situation. This can be done through many methods, which include detailed descriptions of any settings, detail of weather, characters stereotypical of society and colour association.

• empathy is created as we grow fond of the protagonist who shares a story of hardship

In Sherry Turkle’s “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk”, Turkle claims that “technology is implicated in the assault on empathy”(page 4, paragraph 3) . Through online conversations we are unable to make eye contact, hear and see the other person 's tone and body language. Because we are unable to see these things we are unable to comfort one another. Sherry Turkle further proves her claim that technology may be the reason for the decrease in empathy by performing a study. In this study Turkle, observes the behavior of teens at a “device-free” summer camp and after five (5) days, the teens were able to read facial expressions and were also able to identify the emotions of actors on a video-tape unlike their counterparts , whose devices were not taken away. These teens were able to tell how their fellow peers were feeling based on their tone and body languages. Moreover they were able to hold conversations in

To begin, the use of technology has been leaving the people vulnerable. Today conversations are being pushed aside and even in some cases avoided. In the article, Turkle says, “We’ve gotten used to being connected all the time, but we have found ways around conversation — at least from conversation that is open-ended and spontaneous, in which we play with ideas and allow ourselves to be fully present and vulnerable.” Turkle also implies that by losing this type of conversation, the amount of empathy shared between two people is lost. In one of the studies, “They found a 40 percent decline in empathy among college students, with most of the decline taking place after 2000.” (Turkle, 2015). She shares many stories of how students especially

In the article, “Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health” by Jen Christensen, I learned that reading literature can actually build empathy. This is important because, well, what good are we really without empathy? Without ever understanding where a person is coming from, how can we help them? You know that stereotypical, snooty, popular teenager who’s whining all the time and is just generally REALLY annoying on movies and TV shows? That’s what we’d be like without empathy.

Literary fiction helps individuals improve their capacity for empathy through its complexity. To have empathy means to recognize and experience the emotions of another. In fictional literature there are instances in which a reader must be able to understand how the characters feel to understand the text. Literary fiction helps people to understand the emotions of others in their daily lives because it, “prompts the reader to imagine the characters’ introspective dialogues” (Chiaet, 2013).

Douglas Light said that our imagination is better than any answer to a question. Light distinguished between two genres: fantasy from fiction. He described how fantasy stimulates one’s imagination, which is more appealing, but fiction can just be a relatable story and results in being less entertaining. In the short parable Doubt, the readers are lured in to the possibility of a scandalous relationship between a pastor and an alter boy. Their curiosity is ignited because they are not given all the details. Therefore, their mind wanders further than the plot to create a story and characters that acted on one’s imagination; thus, the story became entertaining- flooded by the questions of what? Who? How? By which the reader can only answer.

Even when people do not realize it, everyone is always learning from other people. Characters in stories all have a variety of different personalities. One character from the stories desires to be daring and fearless, while the other character is both both of those qualities. Since one character desires to be something that he is not, he puts his imagination to the test and makes his own perfect scenarios.

During the time that I’m reading the novel, there is abundant of psychological descriptions and conversations, but it is hard for novel readers to see and feel directly what is happening except for imagination. First, by observing the tone of the novel, the text can’t pass the difference and the changes of

The stages of the Hero’s Journey givens insight on how stories are structured in 12 stages. Every story is unique in its own way. To begin with, The Ordinary World helps the reader experience what the hero is seeing, feeling and doing described in words. Every story has a problem to solve that disrupts the Ordinary World. The Ordinary World is known as the safe place for the hero. Next, the hero enters the stage known at “The Call to Adventure”. The Call to Adventure is what disrupts the Ordinary World by making the hero uncomfortable with certain obstacles he or she must face in the story. The hero must then decide on how to solve the issue that he or she is facing at that moment. The third stage is called, “Refusal of the Call”. This stage

, the characters in the story often show emotions whether it be externally or internally. The

Today’s technology is so advanced it captures a person’s mind beyond belief. To really understand this, we have to be mindful of the takeover technology is having in today’s world. Mindfulness is being aware of the situation at hand, being purposeful, conscious, without judgement. Piero Ferrucci describes mindfulness as taking in the past, future, and present and combining all of them to be aware of situations at hand. Ferrucci thinks humans need to be more mindful as he says “We have not paid enough attention to what I all around us, and to the consequences of what we are doing to it.” (Ferrucci, 104) Us as humans need to be mindful of how come technology has shaped our lives for better or for worse.

Therefore, the story’s main idea was to let the reader imagine what the real meaning of the

In literature, human emotions become subverted by technology when technology begins absorbing the user’s attentions. For example, in Wall-E early in the film Wall-E encounters humans for the first time who have grown bloated and fully absorbed in their screens on which they are talking with other people who are talking on their screens and watching commercials and ads. This absorption is exemplified when Wall-E breaks an individual’s screen and she notices her surroundings for the first time.As the woman begins to notice her surroundings she is shocked and bewildered by her surroundings even though she has spent her entire life on this ship because she has focused on this small screen in front of her face for so long. Taking this example further, this