How does new technology (media) affect representation?
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... this sounds like an essay question. I'd be really careful about asking an essay question on here(with the intent to copy someone else's).\nI'm not too sure what it means by representation, I would like to know how it's used in context. \nComputer are now a commodity. \nThe word call(as in on the phone) used to mean to go out and visit someone, however now it's main meaning is different..\ncertain symbols in everyday life are also seen on computers and end up having a much stronger connotation towards the technology theme than the real on.\n\nI think all of those could fit what you're asking, but I don't know that any of them would actually work
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Our dependence upon technology and the fear it fosters as technology becomes a more prevalent entity in our everyday life is the critique of contemporary culture--for example, the strange chemicals in the school that kill a worker cleaning up the asbestos or the conversation between Jack and Babette in the bedroom that is constantly interrupted by a blaring television set. I hope this helps you get another perspective on the novel. Good luck.
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Probably not so soon. The internet is growing quickly to become a gigantic hub for information exchange and it seems that there will be enough people in this world who wants to share their varied experiences on a regular basis. On the other hand, there are also enough people who would want to read other people's stories. So my take is, blog will remain quite popular for the next five to ten decades before human video implants become mainstream.
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No, they do not. It is partly physiological differences, but there are many obstacles and hidden barriers at the workplace and society still nonetheless.\n\nThe media has actually played a negative role recently and even towards men.
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Some would say that art merely imitates life, however, it also influences life. So I guess there's a circle of influence and portrayal. Don't you agree?
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well technology  didnt just happen over 100 years. We had a lil help. We went from having hardly crap and now computers,cell phones, and that damn tv. making people lazier then hell. right now there working on developing a chip that they plant into ur brain thats somthing like the internet. Where u can chat wit other people just by thinkin about it and even listening to music (also makes it easier for the government to keep track of everybody). thats going to make people fatter then hell. Everybody will just stay at home and do nothing all day long. And a benefit of all this technology is that we hardly have to lift a finger anymore.
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Clothes and the mass media have a profound impact on our youth today. younger people are always looking for a role modal. Someone who they can look up to. When they see an actor or actress in a movie they may like the role they played and want to be just like them. So they buy all the clothes endorsed by them and esteem themselves "cool" because of their false self-esteem.In the mass media their only out for ratings, so the stories they cover are all about the stars that these kids see in the movies. They go hand in hand. \n\nAll of this stresses the importance of parental involvement in their children's lives. Parents need to be the their child's role model. They need to teach them good (hopefully Biblical) morals. Teach them to be their own unique individual and not a mockery  of someone they don't even know.
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The new technology has enabled people to be more of who they are and for others to be who they fantasize on being...\nIf you connect with the honest ones, you have increased your chances of true love connection with the "real" person.\nWhen we meet in person, we try and be who we precieve the other expects us to be.  We all fear rejection.  Technology has helped us get around this.  we put our true self out there more..don't you?
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Agree somewhat...but with reservations:  The groups you cite, one would expect, are generally more aware of trends and tools that supposedly can make their lives easier or better (though much one sees on the Internet, for example, is silly, crazy, or just a plain old waste of time), and because of their income, they are more likely to try new gadgets and so on (not because they instantaneously see that it will be convenient, or whatever, but because if it turns out to be a waste of their time and money, they won't be as upset over it as someone who had to scrimp and save "forever").  The use of new technologies doesn't presuppose that their acceptance and use made the groups you cite successful in the first place.  (That often is just a matter of good old-fashioned values such as working hard, studying hard and not wasting what one earns---the wealthy are firm believers in these values and the concept of deferred gratification, thus they don't waste money when they shouldn't.)  \nI do think, though, that there's a somewhat silly tendency in some people to over-emphasize the importance of new technologies, and consequently they add to the misapplication of it and, consequently, to the resistance to its acceptance (use of it just to be using it just to show they can use it---if that sounds silly, then ask any teacher who has had to attend one unproductive technology inservice after another).  That is not to say that after the hubbub dies down that people don't play around with new applications, formats, and so on just to see if they can make use of it.  Fortunately or not, much of what people learn to do on the computer is self-taught.  Again using inservices as an example, no one wants to listen and try to follow someone else "explaining" something in a manner such as "click on this, then click on that then double-click this, then scroll to that, then copy this, then... and you're done," all rattled off in three seconds.\nI had to learn word processing that way simply because those who already knew it, would not take the time to explain it properly.  Yes, I agree that for a writer, especially, word processing is by far much better (faster and more convenient for editing as one writes) than using a typewriter!  But in the case of writing, it's more likely to be the quality of what one writes than the tools with which it was written that makes the writer a success.\nTechnology is just a tool.  You can use it to goof around with, or to do something serious and productive.  A good education (which would now definitely include technology) and the aforementioned values are the keys to success.  As far as the technology making you a sucess, look at it this way: If your boss says that such and such project should be done and presented only by computer and you do it entirely on a note pad, then you're not going to be very successful in that case.  You just have to follow what the current trends are and what those who pay your salary want.  \nLots of people learn computer skills, but do nothing with them (it's the doing nothing that impacts the degree of success).  I know computer engineers who are out of work, but won't build web pages to earn a living.  Likewise, I know people who know little about web design who have made lots of money from rather crude looking web sites.
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The media & the tube????\nPlease! This is where you expect role models to be found, or portraited? \nThe media that focuses on everything that is dark and wrong with mankind.\nThe Media that twists the reality to reflect the political bend of its owners.\nGet a grip.\nThe programming on T.V. is usualy filled with sordid mellow dramas, the scripts of which should only be used as toilet tissue.\n\nRole models will not be found on the TUBE.
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1. 8\n\n2. Broad national culture\n\n3. Both. Some shows make positive portrayal, some networks seem to constantly make negative portrayal (fox news).\n\n4. Yes. By conscious and unconsious feedback.\n\n5. Yes. Portrayals of similary appearances and personalities in positive situations are validating.\n\n6. Big improvements. The issue seems tightly interwoven with broader racial issues in America - I don't see a quick fix.
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enhanced communication and many media choices where we are not limited by the old communications media but able to spread it via many means.\n\nIt is a great day to be alive!!\n\nGood luck and God Bless!!
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it's possible, but probably not likely.\n\njust like TV news changed the way newspapers report news, in terms of what stories and how they cover things, blogs are changing the way news media reports on certain issues.\nalso, as print media and broadcast media change to adapt to the changes blogs bring about to the news media landscape, blogs will change too.\n\npersonally, I think it's not likely that blogs will replace printed media completely for a long time to come, but it will certainly cause a shift in the way both deliver information.
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Not really:  I see it more as 'coming full circle.'\n\nFirst, in the olden days, (before TV, movies, & even radio!) people entertained each other all the time.  People who played paino or guitar or harmonica were the musical part of the 'program,' everyone knew (as we do now) at least one quick wit who was good for laughs, and if nothing else, the dumbest person in the group could be counted upon to say or do somethign interesting now & then.  And, all of this could be entertaining without reaching the same level of sophistication because it made up for that by allowing direct, immediate feedback.  Entertainment was more of a conversation; likewise, conversation was a bigger part of entertainment.\n\nWith the coming of all these professional entertainment technologies, people saw the possibilities of the entertainment becoming more sophisticated, but didn't recognize what they were giving up in exchange.  But it also didn't matter, because they didn't spend so much time at computers (or, to a lesser extent) on the phone.  Instead, they were conducting much of their business & personal affairs face-to-face.  So, they still had enough direct-feedback, face time in their lives.\n\nNow, we spend SO MUCH LESS time directly interacting with each other, we have (consciously  or subconsciously) come to realize that the polished and very impersonal entertainment no longer makes up for the missing interaction.  So, we come back around to a more 'personal' form of entertainment.\n\nWe're still not finished, though.  The level of feedback available has increased, but I'm guessing that it still isn't enough to fulfill our social needs.  There will either be another shift that makes entertainment even more personal (more 2-way webcamming may be one way that happens,) or people will begin to drift farther away from all the electronic entertainments, in favor of more personal time.  That would be a continuation of the trend away from movies & TV, and toward the internet, of which this site is an exellent example of 'conversations.'
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This is a lengthy question.\nIt may be an assignment for your weite up.\n\nThere are innumberable factors to affect technology.\n\nThe density and pressure have helped in developing chemistry towards production of new chemicals, mettelery in terms of alloying and joining through various techniques including bolts, aerodynamics in terms of pressure, density and weight, and many more.\n\nYou need to study various books so that you can get the answer. This media is perhaps very small.
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I would say the television would be the biggest influence.  A lot of Americans follow the televised and printed news as gospel and allow that to shape the way they feel about social issues. There are also the movies and TV which promote a certain type of lifestyles and people do not look at them as fantasy but as the way they should live or should want to live.  I think very few take influences directly from personal experience or research, most take it from hours and hours of TV.
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The major challenge that I can think of at the moment that is unique to the 21st century is to overcome the fictional movie stereotypes that are being established.\n\nAll the rest of the obstacles have been around a lot longer than the 21st century, so I don't need to rehash them. The idealization of super-competence, super-compassion, super-everything seems to be dominating television and extends to all fields, not just jurisprudence. There is an aura of unrealistic expectations being created by many of the dramas. \n\nPeople are going to be blamed for not living up to these unrealistic expectations through no fault of their own other than being human like everyone else.