What are group talked about was how the internet has taken the world by storm and that many kinds of problems can come with it like addiction and how it affects someone’s health. Many companies are taking advantage of how people use the internet just like in the video where the guy was talking about how everyone has a voodoo doll of themselves and all these sites are trying to manipulate that said doll. We should try to figure out ways to at least lessen those said problems so they are not as drastic.
Pieces of Tech
1.SmartPhone
2.Television
Ledger of Harm
I can see these two pieces of tech affecting one’s mental health and attention.
Evaluation
1.Smartphone
Emotional- this device can affect our emotions in all sorts of ways depending on how we use it
Attention- Phones affect our attention span greatly because when our phone vibrates we are mostly like to focus our attention on that because we want to see what text we got or etc
Sensemaking- each person uses their phone differently based on how much knowledge they know about it
Decisionmaking- We make decisions all the time on our phone. One good example is whenever we are replying to someone via text and we need to thoroughly think out what we are going to send to that person
Social Reasoning- Most of our relationships are purely digital now because of these different types of social media
Group Dynamics- When we are with friends we all tend to look at our phones than engage in actual conversation
2. TV
Emotion- We feel a whole range of emotions when we are watching tv it all depends on the show we are watching
Attention- I can see people getting zoned into a show their watching and not worrying about anything that is going on around them
Sensemaking- Usually we focus our eyes on the tv and tv only
Decisionmaking- We don’t really make that much decision when we are watching tv except when we are deciding what to watch
Social Reasoning- We watch tv alone or with friends and family it all depends on the social occasion or event
Group Dynamics- Watching tv at a party is a little different than sitting in front of it all day alone because it is a fun time watching the game with a bunch of friends compared to channel surfing for half an hour
I believe some ways we can resolve this is to bring settings to these devices so that they tell the user to stop using the device and so something at a certain amount of time. This can help in some ways because people sometimes get lost in a trance when they use tech so if they get some sort of alert on their device it would break them out of it and be aware of their surroundings. There can also be a thing where it locks you out of using the device so your less encouraged to use it and go do something else.
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