The Relationship Between Digital Technologies And Print And Media Technologies

Using persuasive writing, Wright begins to influence his audience that game play is a beneficial source of entertainment not a wasteful one. Playing video games increases creatively, self esteem and improve problem solving skills of the players. Video games are becoming test runs that appear or feel close to the real thing. Where you can control everything with added effects like magic or future technology. Games have the potential to exceed almost all other forms of entertainment media. They tell stories, play music, challenge us, allow us to instantly communicate and interact with others. Encourage us to create things, connect us to new communities, and let us play with people across the world. Unlike most other forms of media, games are inherently tangible. According to Wright young children spend their days in imaginary worlds, substituting toys and make believe into the real world that they are just beginning to explore and understand. Wright states that games are the result of imagination and that they consist of rules and goals. Generation of teenagers has grown up with different set of games. Teenagers use the scientific method rather than reading the manual first. Games today maybe a person’s only place to express a high-level of creativity and growth. Older generations have a lot of criticisms for games, the games can help a person learn to think on his or her own.

As humans, we have always looked to develop our environment solely based on tangible content, all done without any dividing barriers. However, throughout recent history, we have been at the forefront of a complete shift in the way that our society functions as a whole. Our newly founded dependency on technology has been more than evident, with it now taking up a substantial chunk out of our daily lives. What once was done exclusively with just pen and paper now has taken the form of something so much more complex and seemingly infinite. As a result of this, our reliance on physical text has transformed into an interest in something much less personal, adding further to the convenience and appeal that books offered. Into the Electronic Millennium by Sven Birkerts dives into this idea head on,

Tom Bissell presents an article in 2010, to college students of which is “Why Video Games Matter.” Bissell isn’t intending for the argument to be about video game criticism, the history of the gaming, or an assessment of anything. On the contrary, he wants to articulate his own opinions and thoughts on what playing games feels like, why he plays them, and the questions they make him think about. Being a gamer myself, I have also endured the struggles of what being obsessed with a video game feels like. It is understood that when first purchasing a video game, all one thinks about is getting home and popping it in the console, disregarding everything else that is happening in the vicinity.

This text is published by a media company called Mic. Their target audience is young people and they cover a wide variety of subjects such as News, Arts, and Technology (Mic /about). The author of this article is Sophie Kleeman, who, according to her profile on Mic.com, covers the “intersection of tech and culture” (Mic /profiles/152573/sophie-kleeman)

Rhetorical Analysis of “Dream Machines” “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” (Albert Einstein). Wright is passionate about amplifying the power of the human imagination and expanding the realm of creativity. He sees video games as not only a powerful vehicle for accomplishing this, but also as a means of entertainment, education, self-expression and connection to a community—dream machines.

Instead of pushing back against the tides of technological innovation, literary elites and authors must realize that technology can be used as a way to endorse reading. If technology is to be employed for the promotion of reading and the impediment of aliteracy, scholars must first modify their opinions on technology itself; they must recognize that engaging and challenging the mind can also be accomplished through video games. “Many role-playing games require the player to solve intricate puzzles in order to advance through a deep plot,” and video games often “bring the player into an active and dynamic world where thought is required to solve complicated puzzles” (Ofstad). Condemning technology will not spawn progress in the crusade against aliteracy, instead it will further isolate the younger culture of potential readers that have grown up in a culture that promotes technological modernizations. The online company Amazon has successfully executed the blending of technology with reading. By selling books online and utilizing social networks, Amazon has been encouraging its consumers to read and buy books. Its “Customer reviews, personalized book lists, and an almost unlimited supply of books give the user something of a virtual ‘social’ environment in which great books can

We now live vicariously through technology. The modern form of communication brings us together. Sports gaming was spawned by this fascinating phenomenon. It's perfect marriage with fashion has been extremely fruitful. Creators are in the driver's seat of both worlds. Yet they live harmoniously as one. We don't know how far the train will go, but we can predict it's route.

Like the novel, machines in society impact everyday life in a large way. Although it is common sense that humans are not a form of mechanics, technology plays a dominant role which, in a way, almost controls our lives. For example, with the increased production/purchasing of video games, specifically virtual reality games, reality has become more distant. As a player is immersed in his or her game, reality is blurred and it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from

Anderson begins by telling his audience that with the creation of the popular and first Nintendo GameBoy game Tetris, a new tradition begins that he calls “stupid games”. Continuing his critical analyst he pointed out how technology has evolved a lot since Tetris was created and with so did video games leaving our world of today surrounded by what he calls “stupid games”. He talks about how Game-studies scholars have noticed a trend, that video games are often made during a time where they would be socially needed. Examples given by Anderson were, “Monopoly, for

The authors, Lev Grossman and Matt Vella, Time Magazine writers, inform and persuade their opinions and concerns about the change in technology and how this change may lead to being too much a part of our life, “too intimate” (Grossman, Vella). They begin with a description of how they perceive how Apple runs its company and how they work to make products. Apple uses old or different ideas and uses them to create one of their aesthetically pleasing devices. The authors say that “Apple dissects it and studies the various causes of death. Then it builds something so completely thought through, so seductively designed, so snugly embedded in webs of content and services and communications, that it not only lives again, it thrives….” Lev and

Technology has become second nature to our daily lives because we use it to think when we can’t, to help us from being bored, and to keep us in touch with the world. Hank Pellissier, in his article, “Your Child’s Brain on Technology: Video Games” quotes, “Take a deep breath. To relax, you scroll through Facebook and catch up on your email. Meekly, you join the other mesmerized zombies.” Clearly, we’re infected by these upcoming innovations and awaiting for fresh creativity. And speaking of zombies: my son plays Plants vs. Zombies, and as scary as that game may sound by its title, it distinctly lives up to its name. It is an entertaining strategic game that helps you think and act fast by using plants to destroy various skilled zombies. Video

I recall waking up at my grandmother’s house, a striking image of the beige curtains slightly ajar, the glimmer of the well-known star radiantly giving warm life to the living room, my small six year old body running into the living room, turning on the monster of a television set, carefully powering on the Gamecube system, and carefully listening to the peaceful hum of the game disc spinning while I rest on the heavy wooden chair. Being able to be a protagonist who can explore different worlds, meet strange, or beautiful characters; it led me to buy more video games and enhanced my ability for my imagination to soar like a phoenix.Today, I log much of my time in video games that bear countless hours of open adventure, that allow you to make choices that affect your protagonist and the universe around them, and grant the capability to design your own

This game quantifies and digitizes life and death in a pixelized fashion—perhaps not illustrating the complexities of human existence, but perhaps that of a simpler, single or multi-cell organism. Organisms follows rules, procedures even, and exist in an ecosystem in which they are born and die. Is this teaching players skills or solving real-world problems, as Bogost hoped? Not necessarily. It does, however, demonstrate that digital procedures are not all that different from our own. The existence of digital beings is not so different from our

Historically video games have been considered a novelty or technical subject, but in recent year given the increase in technology video games have been able to show that they are more. While not a traditional art form, video games do have an artistic basis. Video games are increasingly becoming more story and visually based. With these increased artistic elements it is increasingly becoming harder to deny that video games are art, but maybe they are not the art defined by a traditional definition. Critics state that that video games do not have the artistic values that art has but perhaps there needs to be a new definition of what art is to include video games.

The big reason for choosing print over digital is because of study habits. A common reason college students use printed textbooks is because there is a lack of distraction (Rosenwald). College students are constantly being challenged to complete numerous assignments from various classes that are due on the same day. It is very typical for students to have to multi-task while working on homework assignments. When it comes to reading online, it causes a lot of distractions. Reading online or reading on a Kindle/tablet ereader makes it very easy to open a new tab that consists of either social media or another website which prolongs the study time more than it was intended. American University linguistics professor, Naomi S. Baron, also did another survey about multi-tasking and she found that 90% of students who read online will be more likely to multi-task than the 1% of students who would not multi-task while reading a printed book. Also, Baron has said that only 16% of people will actually read word-for-word online; majority of the time, people tend to skim their digital readings because people are used to spending short, bursts of time on the internet at a time (Rosenwald).