This essay aims to analyze and discuss the work of the theorist Martin Heidegger in relation to usable web design and how people learn in a contemporary environment by interacting with tools, specifically those of online technology such as websites. It will look at Heidegger’s thinking about human activity and the relationship between theory and practice, and will also examine websites that focus on allowing the user the best possible user experience through Heidegger’s notions of ready-to-hand and co-responsibility. In western philosophy, from Descartes to Plato, it is thought that we first need to know in theory how to do something and that everything can be explained with theories, even human activities. Human beings observe objects as conscious subjects, which would mean that a theoretical perspective is preferred to that of an involved and practical one (García Peñalvo, 2008, p.32). Heidegger believes that in order for one to gain better understanding of the world and our relationship to it, we need to do so through practical terms rather than theory first. This is because he thinks theoretical knowledge should not imply that one knows how to do something practically, but rather theoretical knowledge would depend on practical skills being gained first (García Peñalvo, 2008, p.32). This is not saying that Heidegger is against theory, theory is an important and powerful instrument if a limited one as it is only part of how human beings cope with things and we encounter
The first versions of WWW ((what most people call “The Web”))) provide means for people around the world to exchange information between, to work together, to communicate, and to share documentation more efficiently. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first browser (called WWW browser) and Web server in March 1991, allowing hypertext documents to be stored, fetched, and viewed. The Web can be seen as a tremendous document store where these documents (web pages) can be fetched by typing their address into a web browser. To do that, two im- portant techniques have been developed. First, a language called Hypertext Markup Languag (HTML) tells the computers how to display documents which contain texts, photos, sounds, visuals (video), and animation, interactive
The reason Nicholas Carr wrote this article is to inform people of the danger of Internet overuse through his use of ethos, logos, and pathos, along with other rhetorical devices. He starts with a scene from a classic movie that dealt with the prevalence of technology, 2001: A Space Odyssey. He shows that with the technological advances of today, the line between human and computer has starts to grey.
Computers in general give people the ability to complete tasks that would have taken days or weeks to complete with the clicks of a few buttons. As technologies continue to grow the amount of adjustments that will be needed to make will be astronomical. However, society is aiming to help people gain the skills needed to push mankind further. In Davidson’s essay, she discusses how computers and technology can be put to many applicable situations. While working with her students, the “Duke students came up with dozens of stunning new ways to learn [and] almost instantly students figured out that they could record lectures on their iPods and listen to them for leisure” (Davidson 52). This advancement took a few weeks at one college campus in the United States when the technology was still being developed. Now, students have adapted to begin working across the globe to further society with new ideas for applying these technologies. These students now work diligently to make technology as effortless as possible so that their programs will be what will be used in the future. Gilbert discusses how when people are judged by a panel of others they tend to feel worse about themselves but, when dealing with computers people are only judged by one computer which tells them
In the year 2017, there is a high possibility that the design of websites will change from aesthetics to the usability standards. The design Trend in the year 2016 had already seen some organic design for websites and apps. In the coming year, the focus will be usability rather than beautification of the interface. As there’s a lot of apps on the market the one thing that
This course introduces effective Web design principles and the essential role of the Web designer in today's business environment. Topics covered include site architecture, page layout, navigation, content, functionality, and usability. Students will evaluate existing Web sites and apply best practices to prototype a unique design using a Web authoring application.
David Thauberger had defined the principles of his career early on in his career. His work is centered at creating pieces that represent his own life experiences. Having said this, in 1982, he wrote: “I went on a holiday via postcards”. This compelling quote has become the root of Thauberger’s paintings, sculptures and writings as he strives to produce pieces that offer both a local and global view of his own as well as other geographical regions as he strived to represent his own geographical region and those from across the world in representation of a postcard portrait.
Consistently there is some new innovative progression advancing into the world trying to make life simpler for individuals. In the article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", writer Nicholas Carr clarifies his contemplations on how he trusts the web is risking making individuals loaded with simulated information. Carr starts by clarifying how he feels that the web is bringing on his center issues, how he can never again be totally submerged in a book, and the motivation behind why he gets restless while perusing. He then goes ahead to discuss how his life is encompassed by the web and how that is the fault for the issues he has towards not having the capacity to stay associated with a content; however, in the meantime says how and why the web has been a
The five letters that Elie Wiesel utilizes as the title for his book summarize, within one word, all the feelings, the uncertainty, the anger, the fear, etc. associated with the events contained in this novel. The book is a work of art, and Wiesel is a great storyteller, leaving his audience with a deeper knowledge of both historical events and the defiance and courage of the human spirit. Perhaps the most memorable scene in the story is that in which the author and his father begin the journey out of the camp, a cruel death march towards other, harsher, conditions, a tragic tale is loss, fear, and hopelessness. It is, indeed, a memorable scene that culminates with the death of Wiesel's father, and it symbolizes the greatest of human emotions that one could associate with the events of the Holocaust; namely, and as aforementioned, hopelessness. This paper will discuss Wiesel's character in detail, as well as this condition of hopelessness, how it is provoked, and how it is symbolized throughout the novel.
New technology around the world is being developed and improved every day to make people's life easier. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Nicholas Carr explains his thoughts and beliefs on how he feels that the internet, especially google is making people rely more on the web to find information and making them full with artificial knowledge. The author begins his article by explaining personal side effects that he has experience due to the use of the web, like losing focus, not being able to deeply understand a book anymore, and the reasons why he gets distracted when reading. The author then talks furthermore about his life being surrounded by the internet and how it is to blame the web for the issue that he has experience; but then he explains how and why the internet has been “godsend” to him because of his profession as a writer. In order to draw
This text is an article by Nicholas Carr. The author discusses how the internet has changed the lives of people by requiring them to do less work and in turn making them “stupid”. In this essay, my focus will be the three appeals, the structure and the audience of this article.
Technology, especially the Internet, makes humans’ life easier and more effective. A quick access to information brings people a huge opportunity to explore the world and develop them. However, Nicolas Carr, in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” argues that technology affects people’s life, it changes their mind and actions, and humans start to lose abilities of “deep thinking and deep reading”, which are essential skills of being humans. In other words, our world becomes more simplified that people are unable to be smart and creative as they were in the past. For him, today’s people think and act in the frame of programmed world of the Net. Moreover, although Carr worries that the Net based corporations, such as Google, are seeking to replace human’s
Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. Although studies vary across the board, roughly fifty percent of men and women will admit to committing infidelity at some point in their marriage. And while infidelity is not the only cause of divorce, it is certainly a top reason. A marriage is meant to be a lifelong commitment with another person, fully and completely. The presence of trust in any relationship is not only desired, but vital. Trust is utter confidence in the truth of someone, something, or some event. The knowledge of infidelity creates distrust and once said trust is lost, it is difficult - sometimes impossible- to gain back. Trust is earned, not given. Robert Heinlein’s “The Long Watch” demonstrates how distrust creates a society without function.
The Internet is one of the greatest creations of our time. It has so many different uses and resources that almost everyone could find some use for it in their life. This is especially true for people in a computer-related field, such as Information Technology, and Software Development. For example, search engines can be used to help find solutions to problems or questions that one could have about software development. Another example is Wikis, websites that allow collaborative modifications directly from the browser to share information, such as Wikipedia. All of these sites and more can be accessed through browsers, software applications that are used to access the Web. The most common and updated browsers include: Firefox,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the famous German philosopher, argued that tragedy originates from the clash between two goods and that this resulting conflict can never be settled. Tragedy stems from the concept that it is impossible for these two goods to coexist. This conflict between two goods, in essence, is what is at the heart of the conflict both in the ancient Greek plays by Sophocles and in Jim Sheridan’s 1990 Irish film The Field. At the core of each of the plots the same conflict exists of the struggle between two opposing goods.
Among the most controversial figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. The rhetoric of the first of these men, Karl Marx, both inspired revolutions in China, Russia, and Cuba, as well as led to his expulsion from Germany, France and Belgium. As for Freud, Yale history professor Peter Gay notes in his biography of the psychologist: “[He] has been called a genius, founder, master, a giant among the makers of the modern mind, and, no less emphatically, autocrat, plagiarist, fabulist, the most consummate of charlatans.” (xvi). Though Marx is perhaps best described as a political theorist and Freud a psychologist, there is a great deal of overlap in the work of the two intellectuals. Most importantly, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx shared a fervent dissatisfaction with society and its oppressive mechanisms. Yet the source of this oppression was not a point of agreement among the two thinkers. Where Marx advocated class struggle and bourgeois domination as the main obstacles to a harmonious, peaceful society, Freud contended that the fundamental barrier to such a society is human nature itself, which, in his opinion, consists of a constant struggle between a desire for pleasure and the constraints of reality; while Marx believed that Communism could bring about societal contentment, Freud held that the pleasure which man derives from aggressiveness precludes the possibility of collective peace and, concurrently, the restraint with