Social Media Apps That I Use: Discord <- Will be discussing YouTube <- Will be discussing Reddit Impact of Social Media  With recent creations of newer social medias, and old, their has been a defined point in which depression rates have increased.  There are a More

Social Media: Twitter & Instagram “The big 3” of social media in my opinion are Facebook, twitter & Instagram. I have essentially stopped using Facebook daily, and only use it for community events or gatherings. That is why I want to focus on Twitter and More

Technology Choices Reddit.com Lightbulbs These tools are not necessarily bad for humans. On the one hand, lightbulbs were created to illuminate the world, but at the same time, they consume electricity, often formed in ways that harm the environment. That being said, lightbulbs are also More

Some common tech and social media apps that I use include my smartphone and Snapchat and Instagram. Both of these social media apps are installed on my smartphone and in order to access them, I have to be actively using my device.  The use of More

Journal 2 : Curbing the Beast    The articles from this week presented a familiar picture of the magnitude we are integrated with technology and the internet. One report says 94% of people in us 18-29 have smartphones on them most, if not all of More

Technology: Smart phone and TV. Over use of these products may cause people to become addicted to this type of technology which isn’t necessarily healthy.  It can lead to mental health issues as we have read about in the articles.   Smartphone: Emotional- The apps More

In my group, we talk about snap chat, Instagram and Apple watches. After the brief conversation, you had about giving your watch to your grandmother most of our table had apple watches. The cons of apple watches ultimately came down to having another piece of More

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 More

Yes Magazine: Technology as an Addiction Having a tool like a phone, tablet, computer, video games….. in possession is a form of tool that is hard to put down because all you want to do is keep working on it. As it states that the creations More

One large discussion point that is incredibly relevant to the broad topic on the effects on technology as a whole is the focus of not only an individual, but society as a whole prioritizing our morals and reality. I believe emphasizing ethics and remembering what More

After watching the video and reading the articles about technology taking over our society, I’ve found it to be very alarming reading the statistics and how drastic the changes have been. One of the articles wrote that 2.87 billion people have smartphones. That article was More

In our group, we focused our discussion on the surveillance and tracking of a population. China’s disregard for the privacy of is people is staggering. It seems that once a population reaches a certain size, its governing body treats its citizens less like people and More

After reading and watching the videos/articles the major theme of all of these was the fact that overtime we have discovered that the internet and what we do on it, is not free. A prime example of this discovery happening in the most recent years More

Cell Phones: Cell phones definitely fit into every ledger of harm.  Cell phones have completely changed how everybody interacts and communicates with each other. Many people prefer texting to real face-to-face interactions. They have also created an intense distraction for the population. It’s hard to More

Discussion points After I’ve read and watched Humane Tech video. There are many interesting points that I agree with the points. For the first article, the people behind your tech addiction are now trying to curb. I was interested in how they mentioned the point that More

1. The Attention Economy – Singularity Hub Whoever can get the most attention on the internet gains the most brand recognition. Because of this, advertisers have different values for the different ways they gain our attention. This system of values is known as the attention More

The People Behind Your Tech: 1: 98% of Children today in the US grow up with some form of smartphone/tablet/computer to access the internet 2: Psychologists are debating whether or not over use of technology can be considered addiction 3: Concern about this supposed addiction More

One of the things my group discussed is the show ‘Person of Interest’, and how a machine was built in the show, to help determine when and where bad things were going to happen, such as terrorist attacks. One of our group members brought up More

Discussion: My group may not have particularly discussed the articles in specifics. But I think that some important points/connections that we made were very beneficial to my understanding of the course and my own values. First point: There are people who want to make a More

Cell Phones: I think cell phones can fit into pretty much every ledger of harm, they have completely changed the way that we communicate between one another. They have created a deep attention deficit among society, we cannot look at our screen for about 40 More

  READINGS: The People Behind Your Tech Addiction Are Now Trying to Curb It Miles Schneiderman Important Quotes:   “Center for Humane Technology understanding that smartphones are designed to capture and keep attention. Most people don’t understand how they are being manipulated by their smartphones. More

List: iPhone, Snapchat, Instagram Ledger of Harms Problems:  iPhone – The presence of a smartphone, even when off, can reduce cognitive capacity by taxing the attentional resources that reside at the core of both working memory capacity and fluid intelligence. Even the mere presence of a smartphone More