The First Generation Of Digital Era

Internet addiction has become a huge problem in today’s society. In Greg Beato’s article, he discusses the growing phenomena of internet addiction disorder. The writer explains that more and more people are becoming addicted to the internet. For example, he tells of a teenager in Ohio, who shot and killed his mom and injured his dad because they took away his Xbox. He tells how it is stated that five to ten percent of the 52 million internet users were addicted. The author is telling us that the internet has become very addictive in our everyday society.

The central message of this article is to explain to its audience how the Internet is affecting its users over the past 20 years. This article and the book itself are based on three years research of studies conducted on this subject. Mainly this message is explaining how the access to the constant and unlimited stream of information on Internet is affecting people’s concentration and loss of focus in daily life.

“Internet, mobility, and multimedia are important technology tools that are used in education industry” (Hameed 372).Although the internet is an important tool in the classroom and out, it does have downsides. Websites have become more commercialized, and this has made searching through websites difficult since not all websites are reliable. In the Journal done by Shihab Hameed he says that statistics show that teenagers use the internet more than adults, they use the internet to play games, listen to music and meet new people. Hameed also mentions that it reduces student activity. Students are able to get solutions to homework and as result

Growth of internet usage worldwide revolutionized access to knowledge and means of communication (Greydanus 452). Many children today are affected by their use of Internet which has both positive and negative implications. This paper argues that the outcome of Internet use by children depends greatly on how it is used and how Internet use is supervised and guided by agents of socialization such as parents, families, teachers, and other adults. There are many positive and negative outcomes of the use of Internet by children. Negative outcomes that can diminish children’s well-being and cognitive and socialization capacity include harmful social interactions such as cyber-bullying, negative emotional and physical consequences, ineffective personal time management, exposure to violent and obscene content, and exposure to commercial advertising and consumerism. Positive benefits include the use of Internet for school study, development of creativity, access to variety of useful information, and communication on educational matters with children in other countries. Children who are using Internet for educational purposes and communications that enhance their development are getting smarter and more socialized whereas children who use Internet pathologically and excessively for other purposes may get less smart and less socialized.

Nowadays, the Internet is one of the most important means of modern technology, which occupies and invades minds and souls. This technology is exploited by some to satisfy their curiosity, to learn about new discoverers, and to be challenged by adventures and to satisfy other desires. Despite the privileges it has brought to people's lives, the Internet however has its own disadvantages. Internet addiction is one of the most dangerous and frightening problems that has swept the world in all societies, and it is a new disease of this modern age. Internet addiction in people can be expressed in terms of the excessive time and intent that is being put in its use. Young people are usually victims of Internet addiction. Therefore, the compulsive

In the midst of a digital revolution, music mediums have dramatically transformed since their conceptions in the late 1800s. The music carrier has become a paramount component of the listening experience. It is an inseparable aspect of auditory production and reception that contextualized the sound heard, whether in a phonograph or an MP3 file. As the world of music steadily converts into digital, weightless files, countless materialistic mediums have become artifacts of the past. Yet, the vinyl record, a vintage technology, has managed to withstand the extinction of physical musical formats. The revival of analog records in recent times has had an impressive impact during an overwhelming era of digitalization. Reemerging as an auxiliary media format has been a dramatic transformation since its days as the dominant recording medium in the 60s and 70s. Its transfiguration over the decades is a complex process involving many cultural, technological, and mechanical factors. Vinyl is a revitalized phenomenon of the 21st century that has been infused with new meaning and values. After over 125 years of existence, this classic medium continues to be a symbol of the undeniable impact of multisensory musical experience. The analog record’s reemergence in the digital age has recontextualized the medium, but continues to demonstrate the remarkable singularity of

An internet is a global computer network which provides a variety of information and communication facilities. Internet has developed tremendously during the past few years with the improvement of modern technology and it has drastically changed the lives of ordinary people in Bhutan and at the same time it is also observed that growing phenomenon of internet addiction leads to serious social and personal consequences. Yet a person prefers using internet because it makes data retrieval and comparison easier. It has now become an inevitable part of live of every individual and has made life easier and advances because of the benefits it has in the field of entertainment, communication, education, business and health.

In recent years，network technology developing rapidly so that internet bring changes for teenager’s daily life and a large number of teenagers network user is rising. A review by Lau CH（2011 ) found that over 12% of male students and 5% of female students in China showed signs of Internet addiction. Moreover，Data from Pew Internet and American Life Project（2001）analysed that around 39.2% teenagers spend approximately 3-4 hours on internet，as a result，they may feel live in a virtual world. Similarly, Kimmerly and Lisa(2009) have argued that over 90% of children aged 3-18 in the US used computers, and the long time they surf the internet might cause physical health problems to teenagers (obesity, visual strain and insomnia). So the essay presented here summarize the major drawbacks about teenager Internet addiction，including internet addition in games，social media and sex.（Goldberg,2005）. In addition，identifying and analyzing the reasons of adolescent internet addiction. As a result，focus on the addition problem and discuss the solutions.

There are many research studies done that emphasis on internet addiction and its effect on adolescents. There results include effect on their academic performance, well being, self esteem and increase family conflicts. According to one of the research done by Young (1998), it reported that individuals who have high internet addiction among adolescents have low levels of self esteem. In addition, low self esteem is also found to be one of the reasons for internet addiction in adolescents and indulge themselves more into social networking sites, so that their sense of self worth increases (Greenberg, Lewis & Dodd, 1999). Thus, self esteem is considered to be as an antecedent of internet addiction as well as the consequence of it.

Modern scientists devote a lot of attention to the study of Internet use by schoolchildren. Omara, Dauda, Hassana, Bolonga and Siti (2014) in their study of Malaysian and British children speak about maximizing the advantages of Internet use by children. There is a correlation of Internet use and children’s age: it becomes more active as the children are getting older. Posting images or messages for others to share, using a webcam, file-sharing sites, spending time in a virtual world, writing a blog and a huge number of developing games can help to solve specific tasks of the game that contribute to the formation of intelligence, reaction and enterprise. Moreover, it can help to get accustomed to a rational way of life and punctuality.

The results of the study done by Buchanan, J., O’Mara, J., Pistner, M., Young, K. were as follows; first, boredom was one of the factors identified by participant as being a major cause in dealing with their use of the internet.Secondly, symptoms of internet addiction found in this study were being engrossed with the internet, anxiety when not using internet, lying and covering up internet use, negative impacts on real-life functioning. The overuse of the internet can lead to depression or increased depression, social isolation, loss of job, financial debt, divorce, underachievement in school, and tension in relationship with family.

The Internet is a technology that has negative impacts on our daily lives. It has changed aspects of our life for the last 50 years, and it has demonstrated the considerable influence on people’s lives. Almost 3.2 billion people in the world use the internet. The Internet has gained acceptance across the globe, and it has also become a reason behind the critical changes in the modern society. Some of the changes are social isolation, health disorder, lack of privacy and internet addiction.

Because of the technology became popularity, children might lose their simplicity and childhood memory by watching violent cartoon, video game and numerous website.This is not a personal problem but is a problem of whole society and the solution is not to stop using all those technology.It is impossible to discourage its penetration to everyone and everyday life.The only thing we can do is use the technology in a more resonable way and be possible to decrease its bad influence on society.[( Posted Nov 15, 2009 by maxyoung),( www.bukisa.com/articles/191661_5-reasons-why-the-internet-can-be-dangerous-for-children-and-teens),(07 Dec 2009) ]

The Internet has dramatically changed our lives over the past few decades. Through Internet technology innovation and development, the Internet provides a lot of benefits to people's life; doing business online, shopping online, playing video games and so on. With social media, people can see what is happening all over the world, searching information, resources they need, communicating with friends or family oversea. Nowadays, Internet is closely related to people’s daily life; people can barely live without it. However, there are some disagreement as to whether the overall effect of this technology has been positive or negative. For instance, with the popularity of video games, lots of teenagers are addicted into the virtual world. People spend most of their fragmented time on their phones, computers. People should understand that spending time on Internet for their daily studying and working are useful and helpful because of its fast pace and powerful searching engine. Besides that, Internet isn’t that important in our daily life, because online activities cannot replace the real life.

Nowadays most of the young people are wasting almost half day of their time on the internet. The first thing they do in the morning is the checking their Facebook profile or email. That is the proved that internet