Issues with Computer Addiction

Issues with Computer Addiction

INTRODUCTION

10 Warning Signshttp://www.warningsigns.info/computer_addiction.htm

Psychologisthttp://www.computeraddiction.com/ 

Issues with Computer Addiction

Issues with Computer Addiction

Issues with Computer Addiction

Issues with Computer Addiction

Issues with Computer Addiction

Prep Reading:

Jay Bolter: “The Electronic Hiding Place”

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~bolter/

Issues with Computer Addiction

“The computer is an ideal writing space for our networked society, because it permits every form of reading and writing from the most passive to the most active.”

Validity Usefulness

Issues with Computer Addiction

The computer can in fact provide a quiet place for readers and writers to pursue such interests, relatively secure from the noise of what remains of shared cultural elements.

Freedom of thought “Losing the pulse”

Issues with Computer Addiction

Do you think people will become more disconnected from social skills with extended computer use?

Issues with Computer Addiction

“Long time no type…” Are instant message “buddy” relationships worth the hours of time chatting?

Issues with Computer Addiction

What are your thoughts on the explosion of online sim’s?

Issues with Computer Addiction

The best virtual reality will reproduce life perfectly.

So, what is the point?

Issues with Computer Addiction

Activity:

Split into 4 groups, and take one of 4 articles. Summarize and highlight points. We will discuss each.

 

Issues with Computer Addiction

Article 1

Group 1

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-881673.html

Issues with Computer Addiction

Article 2

Group 2

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/issues/electronic.html

Issues with Computer Addiction

Article 3

Group 3

http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/cwonline2001/archives/cwonline/one/msg00102.html

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Article 4

Group 4

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/11/geo.slavery.ap/index.html

Issues with Computer Addiction

Can long hours of computer/gaming hurt you physically?

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135824

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1136154

http://www.jsonline.com/news/State/mar02/31536.asp

Issues with Computer Addiction

With all the hours of computer use, are writers getting better or worse?

Are we losing touch with “ink and parchment?”

Issues with Computer Addiction

Will increased computer usage improve or impair modern rhetoric? Why?

Issues with Computer Addiction

Final Activity:Write up a quick response to one or more of the following questions: 1. Are you addicted to computer use?2. Do you spend more time on a computer then you would like? (Personal or Profession)3. Do you wish you could spend less time on a computer? Why or Why not? 

Send to: grevlin@yahoo.com

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CONCLUSION

Final-Final Activity

Surf the Net to compile a list of sites that contain statistics about the increase of computer use over a range of professions, cultural background, and sex.