Thursday, November 14, 2019
First cigarettes, now mobile technology: Sherry Turkle analysis
Sherry Turkle’s analysis of mobile technology impacting everyone in a negative way is similar to when people started to realize that smoking cigarettes are bad for one’s health. Mobile technology and cigarettes have a lot in common. For instance, they are both extremely addictive and are accessed at inappropriate times; they both become incorporated into our daily lives and are missed when unused for too long; and neither are going away any time soon. Now, cigarettes may not negatively impact our solitude like mobile technology does, but cigarettes cause cancer and lung disease whereas mobile technology does not. Therefore, in addressing Sherry Turkle’s question about how will people respond to the use of mobile technology; if society is able to adopt moderation to reduce cigarette related health issues than there is a good chance that it may be possible for society to once again adopt moderation for mobile technology. When people realize solitude, like better health, is what they are after then the reduction of mobile technology will surely follow. There is no example of this good faith more visible then the fact that groups of people immediately book their campsite and race to escape their mobile technology together.
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It will be interesting to look back on history and the development of social media in the future. To read studies about how it affected society both negatively and positively. As of recently, Instagram has been slowly removing the "like" feature- which for a long time inherently determined some kind of "popularity contest." It has become clear to me through my own experiences, hearing from others, and from seeing this change in the company that social media can have a massive negative impact on society.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant way to express your point of view through comparison to another addiction. We can't blame technology for the way its taken part in, and shaped our lives. It's sad to see these days a family outing with everyone with their heads down in their devices, with hardly any verbal communication. It is an addiction. I guess it boils down to choice and how much one values the relationship at hand.
ReplyDeleteAwesome how you compared this to another addiction in smoking cigarettes instead of the conventional response; and that you compared that people have witnessed and learned about cigarette's issues, to maybe people will do the same for technology.
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