I believe google doesnt make us stupid or not stupid, I think it's more of a question of do we choice. Media is manipulating us into using electronic medium and directing us to see what they want us to see and hear what they want us to hear. This doesnt give us much room to form our own thoughts because is distracts us with links and advertising. According to Nicholas Carr in the artical is google making usw stupid he writes "what the net wseems to be doing is chipping aware my capacity for concentration and contimplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the net distributes it." the essence of Carrs argument is that google is directing our opinions. From my perspective its more than just google but instead its the media driving google. An example of the media brainwashing us is we could choose to go to a book and look up infornmation but we dont do that, instead we go to the internet. We tend to get sucked in to choosing the media through gossipand products.
Another topic I would have liked to write more about would be be from the artical lazy eyes where Michael Agger discusses how we can get distracted byludic reading or pleasure reading. In his Article agger maintains that, "Ludic reading can be achieved on the web, but the environment works against you. read a nice sentance, get dinged by IM, never return to the story agian." This allows us to get small details of topics we find interestin by IMing our friends and reading small snipets of what we see in entertaining news.
Welcome to Our Blog Conversations Beyond the Classroom!
Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study? As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…). Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
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