Resourse to watch and read:
1. Digital Life in 2025 (web page) https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/03/11/digital-life-in-2025/
2. Intersection of American Media and Culture (web page) https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-2-intersection-of-american-media-and-culture/
3. How Did We Get Here? The Evolution of Media (web page) https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/1-3-the-evolution-of-media/
VIEW / WATCH
1. Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier – Chapter 1: Distracted by Everything
PBS Online Video Documentary Series – Chapter 1 (00:00 – 08:28 minutes | closed captioned)
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/digitalnation/
Note: Start the video, then navigate to the 8:29-minute mark
2. Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier – Chapter 2: What’s It Doing to Their Brains?
(PBS Online Video Documentary Series – Chapter 2 (08:29 – 16:05 minutes | closed captioned)
Note: Start the video, then navigate to the 8:29-minute mark.
Topic 1: Digital Media
This week, you watched Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier Chapter 1: Distracted by Everything and Chapter 2: What’s It Doing to Their Brains?
Discussion:
Professor Turkle believes that students are wrong to think that a “multitasking learning environment” will help them succeed as students. She believes that in order to learn certain things, we need to be still, quiet and focused on one thing at a time.
Question #1:
Do you agree with the professor’s opinion? Is it possible to learn while multi-tasking? Why or why not? NOTE: The focus here is learning and multitasking while using digital media.
Topic 2: Digital Media’s Impact on Society
Discussion:
This week you read “Intersection of American Media and Culture“, which explained how different technological transitions have shaped media industries.
Question #1:
How has technological developments in radio, television, the Internet, OR newspaper (SELECT ONE) influenced mass communication? Support your response.
Topic 3: Digital Future
This week you read Digital Life in 2025 by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie.
Discussion:
Anderson and Rainie summarized 15 theses about the digital future of which eight were classified as more hopeful.
Question #1:
Which ONE of the eight “hopeful” theses do you see as the most hopeful? Explain your choice.
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