Essays on Chatting

In his article “Disconnected Urbanism” Paul Goldberger discuss the way technologies, cell phones in particular, affected people's lives. The author believes that when spending time on the phone people forget about their surroundings. They are not able to fully enjoy the place they are actually in. They are no longer connected to the places they visit. All in all it is possible to agree with the author’s words. The truth is that at present time cell phones substituted a number of things in people's lives. That is why it is possible to say that technologies negatively affected people's ...

The experiment was conducted in a local church whereby, I created a Youths’ Facebook account for the purpose of enhancing communication among the members who were aged between 12 to 17 years. Other that communication, the Facebook page was instrumental in giving updates about the upcoming youths activities and fun days. All members were encouraged to create their accounts and update their profiles. In a period of two weeks, over 20 youths had signed up on the Facebook page. Most of the group members uploaded their pictures time .Some of the group members liked the photos while other gave ...

Introduction

The general public tends to describe sleeping as the process of just closing your eyes and letting your body rejuvenate. However, researchers have been able to come up with a comprehensive definition of sleep and it has been stated that sleep is a simple action of an individual being relatively unaware of whatever’s going around in their environment. However, this definition has been met with various contradictions due to the fact that this definition may incorporate various conditions such as hibernation or instances that the person may be in a coma whether it is medically induced or brought ...

Development of new technologies and wide use of mobile devices have inevitably entered lives of nowadays society. There is absolutely no doubt that ‘mobile communication is a characteristically personal medium with the technological affordance of individual addressability in ways that fixed and even portable media cannot offer’ (Campbell). Today phones do not serve for businesses or emergency purposes only. Every now and then we experience the desire to dial up the number of someone we want to share our emotions or news with. Moreover, mobile devices take a lot of our time, they make us more dependent and, to ...

“There is only one thing that people agree about technology – it is important” (Kline 215). Indeed, it is hard to underestimate the role technologies play in our lives and the level of their integration into our everyday activities. In the age of technological progress, we do not wonder the new technologies that appear almost every couple of months and humbly accept and use those of them that become radical. Like other people, I use various technologies regularly and for different reasons, from calling my Mom and friends to entertainment and studying. However, it has not always been the same. ...

With the science, information and technological boom in the past few decades, the internet has become the ubiquitous resource when it comes to acquiring information and knowledge. However increased use of search engines and other websites to acquire information has also given rise to questions about its effect on intelligence and behavior, especially in the case of children and adolescents. Children and adolescents are more likely to be affected as they are in their formative years and are highly susceptible. Access to information that is just a click away and this can lead to a mistaken belief and illusion ...

Once Albert Einstein said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Moffett et al. 175). Nowadays, his statement is more challenging than ever. We live in the age of technological progress that works both ways. On the one hand, it significantly eases our life and improves its level. On the other hand, almost uncontrolled development of technology makes people dependent and results in loosing humanity. Comparing with previous days, we have become less attentive and more indifferent to everything around us. The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact technology has on ...

Life today is not as difficult as it used to be during the earlier times. During those times when technology was not yet fully developed, people spend too much time in doing their activities. Not only time was extensively spent but also energy. Sometimes, this resulted to problems due to human errors. To perform the activities effectively and efficiently, development of technology is conducted. Development and research activities have led to various technologies today. Thanks to technology and the continuous development, human activities are done easier. This purpose of technology has made people to have great dependence with it ...

In the modern times, the definition of friendship has come to be changed due to the enormous influence of technology and social media. In fact, the technological boom has holistically transformed the nature of communication among people all over the globe. This change in the form of communication has come to reflect its major effect on the inter-personal relationships of people in the modern world. A close scrutiny of the gradual transformation in communication style and its impending effect would enable one to have a much better idea about the metamorphosis of inter-personal equations in the present times. It ...

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The following discussion will examine aspects of learning and motivation.

Positive and Negative Reinforcement The reinforcing contingencies of positive and negative reinforcement provides the motivation for employees to repeat certain desireable behaviors. (Hitt, Colella and Miller, 2014) Positive reinforcement is the external stimulus from people or organizations which moves a person to do something willingly because he feels pleasure or is expecting to gain from his action. When we recognize that there is a cause and effect pattern that is consistently bringing us good feelings or benefits, then we normally respond positively to the action and even encourage its recurrence. Common examples abound in all stages ...

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Introduction

No one could have anticipated the scope of integration and pervasiveness of the internet in contemporary societies. Since its inception, the internet has undergone unprecedented growth in its reach and applications to become a staple in various sectors of the economy. A key technological revolution that accompanied its development was the emergence of social media as a primary platform for communication. Social media refers to web-based tools and services aimed at fostering community development through information sharing (Tarantino, McDonough, & Hua, 2013). They include blogs, wikis, sharing tools, networking platforms, media (e.g. video, audio, photo, and text), ...

1. Apply Behavior Modification to change Luke's behavior to what you would think is appropriate from your perspective. Luke is suffering from lack of attention and concentration in doing his work. Besides, he is addicted to using tobacco which may also make him have a withdrawal syndrome that might accelerate his lack of concentration. Use of reinforcement is one way through which behavior modification can assist Luke to change his behavior. It is worth noting that Luke needs more encouragement in his work to help him develop the interest and the passion to perform his duties and responsibilities without ...

Social networks have entered our life relatively recently, but their popularity among Internet users is really impressive. Millions of people every day are involved in endless chatting, posting, twitting and liking activities which replace usual reading, live communication and writing on paper. In my opinion, this situation may be viewed from different standpoints: positive and negative. I will have a try to analyze in the present paper how social networks influence their users and whether this influence is more positive or more negative. I remember last year I had to pass a very important exam and I wanted to ...

The rise in popularity and usage of social media has changed the way people interact with each other. More specifically on the usage of social networking sites, individuals can now communicate freely at any time of the day through the use of virtual space. This has an advantageous effect especially when trying to reconnect with people we have lost contact with or has immigrated to another place. The ease of access for communication brought about by social networking sites has complicated matters surrounding interpersonal skills when it comes to personal interactions. Social networking sites have given people a false ...

Issues and Impacts of Online Social Networking Sites

Issues and Impacts of Online Social Networking Sites Today, in the century of well-developed technology, we all got used to do everything with the help of special machines and computers. Computers play the most significant part in the life of human being. It helps us to do everything quickly and accurately by automating many tasks, which would take several days or months to complete manually, but now they can be done with the click of one button. Comparing with the previous decade, today our life got easier and became more interesting. Computers have changed our life completely. Earlier, ...

- Introduction to Relevant Literature

This chapter reviews the literature sources which provide relevant information and data for analyzing the chosen topic of applying the marketing mix in three chosen countries on the examples of three companies: Blizzard Entertainment (US), Rockstar North (UK) and Tencent (China). The main area for the collection of academic sources was marketing, as it is directly connected with the topic. Due to the reason that marketing in computer games is not extensively researched, I reviewed the literature on marketing, game industry and some sources about the three chosen ...

Annotated Bibliography

Alexander, M. The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of. New York: The New Press., 2010. Alexander starts with an overview of the Jim Crow laws that promoted racial segregation where the people of color were discriminated against. He reflects on the intimidation practices by the Ku Klax Klan and they people of color were denied the right to vote among others. Although the US is over the racial discrimination and exclusion on the basis of color, but the modern day practice of discrimination is practiced in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system has ...

The faster evolution of mobile phones has greatly influenced how I perform various activities in life. The use of mobile phones is an important object in the arrangement and planning of many activities in my life. The evolution and changes in relation to mobile phones made it an important component which cannot be separated from my life. The main aspect of mobile phone is the function of communication with people in the society especially in relation to the friends and comrades in the school life. The use mobile phones enabled me to ask easily for directions relating to the ...

Introduction

Latest innovations in Social Media that include Websites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn as well as blogs, all elements of the new and magnificent ways individuals now utilize to electronically link with each other, each having its own particular culture and specific set of standards have renovated the approaches people interact with each other. Hence, latest innovations in social networking has offered a few means for social interaction that would have never been conceivable previously, however, the reality still remains that it is making people to spread themselves excessively thin, and also gradually demolishing the nature of social ...

Critical Thinking on Media Theology

Today people in the West can hardly imagine communication without internet. The massive involvement with social media affected also the Christian community that learned to use tools to communicate with congregations. Social media helps educate Christians on religious matters. It is involved in events management and organization of church activities, that use social media options to connect and stay informed about forthcoming occurrences in church life. Internet offers diverse sources for information on Christian issues. Generally, Christian communities benefit from social media that keep them connected and give them new resources to encourage each other in their faith.

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Social media interaction currently has taken control of both online and offline dialog. In a community where interacting and over-sharing online is the culture, one is likely to chat with friends and relatives through electronic devices instead of face to face. These changes have had much impact on the interpersonal social skills among the young and old individuals. As a result of increased technological changes, both internet, and other media have been embraced and are coordinated (Baym, Nancy, Yan, Zhang, and Mei-Chen Lin, 6). This has had much impact on youth’s way of life, activities, attitude, and behaviors. The role ...

How social media contributes to depression and isolation?

Introduction to Social Media Social media refers to the computer-generated tools that can help people in creating, sharing, or exchanging information, pictures, and videos on virtual communities and networks. According to researchers, social media can be defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content" (Kaplan, and Michael 61). Moreover, with the help of social media people can discuss and modify user-generated content. As a result of the introduction, and continuous increase in the use of social media, significant changes to ...

Institutional Affiliation: Grand Valley State University

Introduction: My literature review is on the concept of psychology of making and breaking habits and using incentives to get people to change their habits or start new ones. There has been a lot of study and research in the last decade over this topic. Charles Duhigg wrote one of the most revolutionizing books on this topic. The Power of Habit provided a psychological perspective on habits. The Power of Habit is one of the most powerful books ever written on habit formation and reformation. Several studies have also been undertaken to understand the effects of incentives on habit formation. ...

Impact of Facebook on teenagers in America

The generation is what is referred to as the I Generation. This is the generation that is constantly connected to the internet surfing, texting, instant messaging, Facebooking, Instagram, twitter and so forth. Their lives seem to revolve around these sites and they cannot seem to function properly without them. It has come to our attention that while these sites and activities seem necessary and vital, they do have effects on persons who are constantly using them. The internet has sought to close the boundaries that exist in cultures. Through it persons from every walk of life can access any ...

Internet

The essay that I am revising is Essay#2 (The Shallows Essay) which entailed choosing an issue raised by Nicholas Carr in The Shallows and developing an argumentative essay around. I choose to revise this essay simply because I got a low grade D and believe that I deserve a better grade. I tend to believe that I am better off than a D grade and that if I can take care of the simple mistakes I did in my first essay and take into account the issues pointed out by my professor, I could easily score a much higher grade. I am going ...

How Elderly Persons can be influenced to become Active Users of Smartphones to Communicate with Peers and Younger Aged Groups via the Use of Web 2.0 Technologies (Student’s Email Address)

ABSTRACT

The generational gap between younger age groups and senior persons who use mobile technology has been well documented. It is the purpose of this paper to document the challenges that senior persons face as it relates to the use of mobile technology. In addition, this research paper will reveal how mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, can be used to improve or enhance their social interactions ...

Ladies and gentlemen, it comes a time when we have to analyze our lives and determine what benefits us and to what extent. Every now and then a new gadget with sophisticated apps is invented to the delight of everyone. We do not hesitate to rush to the market unconsciously competing for the most recent, trendy phone, laptop, etc. and brag of the new social sites and apps that we can access. Perhaps as I am talking now, someone is on Facebook or twitter updating how he or she is enjoying the day. Perhaps, one is answering a message or even pretending ...

Herman’s obstacles and habits

Many obstacles contribute the lateness of Herman to his work station. As seen from the map, his home is approximately four miles from the Dewey, Cheetum and Howe Accountants. Along the way, Herman experiences a lot of obstacles that make him late for work. In addition, he has an unacceptable behavior that also makes him get to work late. Punctuality in the workplace is an issue that needs no debate because every worker must ensure they report to their duty stations on time. Failure to arrive at workplace on time irrespective of the reason for lateness introduces an aspect of ...

Social Media as complicated as it may seem is best realized as a set of online media that shares participation, openness, community, conservation and connectedness (Mayfield, 2009). The social media encourages an environment wherein all opinions and contributions matter. Social media are very much open to feedback that only a few barriers limit the people’s access on certain information. This kind of medium also encourages a two-way conversation that enhances the relationship between two people. According to Mayfield (2009), as of present there are six forms of social media that we know of. These are social networking sites (sites that allow ...

Introduction

The use of kinesics in communication is called body language. Its usage may be deliberate or involuntary. The researcher went on field trip to observe the usage of these non-verbal cues by individuals in a social setting, classify them and determine their effectiveness. The researcher chose a local restaurant and sat in strategic corner near the entrance where most of the clients in the café were visible. After observing the patrons’ body language without necessarily hearing what they were conversing about, the researcher realized that it was possible to deduce the type of relationship existing between the conversing persons. It is ...

Google hangouts allows user to connect and communicate with other users in multi-user video rooms. Up to ten users can hang out at one time in a multi-user room. Hangout can be simple or complex, as it needed. It is use to hold a company meeting; discuss a particular topic or issue, or a simple video chat or using extra application and add-ons that is provided by Google. Hangouts share your computer screen so that other users in the hangout can actually see what is on your screen. You have the privilege to share any available or open window on your computer. You ...

Music

The extensive influence of New Media on the American college student culture is omnipresent in our daily lives. It also transformed the cultural aspect of music from the ways it is shared to the ways it is created and distributed. Since beginning of the Internet, the number of physical music sales such as CD and vinyl plummeted while the Internet music market started to bloom and became the normality. Among the consumers in the digital world, college students have always been the largest demographic group. Music labels such as Universal and EMI sell the rights of distribution to major ...

The 21st century is the time of huge technological progress. It is hard to imagine that something like ten years ago social media was significantly less developed than nowadays, because networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, fast internet connection, texting and many other things people enjoy doing now were only on the stage of creating, testing. It is a good thing that the World is moving forward, everything is changing for better, mostly. The new phenomena comes along with the technological and informational progress, improvement of Social media. Internet has been used more and more by the users with different ...

The use of social interactions at the workplace has taken a new turn. With the introduction of digital online societies like Facebook, twitter among others, people are now able to find their friends on their work desk. This has brought about a new form of challenge to the management as they grapple to counter the problem. Many research studies have revealed that the introduction of the social interactions at the work place has dire consequences on the work output. Many employees spend more time chatting and socializing with their friends and relatives at the expense of doing their designated duties. ...

Question 1: Observing a nurse manager

Having observed the nurse manager for one hour on two occasions, it was apparent that the nurse manager was a transactional leader. This could be seen from how the nurse manager related with junior nurses; the nurse manager was the one giving orders around while the junior nurses have to follow the orders. On several occasions, the nurse manager was seen complimenting some junior nurse for their good work. Despite the nurse manager exhibiting transactional leadership, the relationship between this nurse and the junior nurses seemed to be positive since for more than once, the nurse manager could be seen ...

Child Predation

The development of the internet over the last 20 years has resulted to the improvement in communication both socially and in the business community. There has been an increase in access to plenty of information. However, despite the internet being a valuable tool, it has resulted to increased hazards towards the safety of children. Child predation via the internet has become easy due to the presence of online solicitation and increased access to inappropriate material (Dombrowski, Gischlar, and Durst, 2007). The internet also allows different individuals to be able to misrepresent themselves via online chat rooms, which makes it easy ...

First of all, there is the need to look at how FB has changed the face of communication in the modern world. According to Nogales (2010), this platform has actually overtaken face-to-face as a way of communication. It has become a great way of meeting with new friends, making acquaintances, meeting colleagues and also meeting friends-of-friends. Furthermore, FB ha changed the face of communication in that in the modern world, it is possible to communicate with people who are miles away, even without having to be in close proximity with them. However, Nogales (2010) also observes that this networking can lead ...

With technological advancements happening around the world, should children and teens aged 7-13 be allowed access to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Multiply, among others? According to John Sutter on his CNN report (based on a Microsoft Research and Consumers Reports) "Many kids use [social networking sites]often with their parents' knowledge. A 2011 Consumer Reports survey found 7.5 million people younger than 13 use the site; nearly a third of 11-year olds and more than half of 12-year olds use Facebook with their parents' knowledge (Sutter 2012)." Giving children a chance at using similar sites ...

Believe it or not, the present world is mushrooming with information and knowledge revolution. In this era of knowledge sharing and information explosion, the role of change and transformation due to the evolution of internet in in all walks of life has revolutionized the society and life of the people. No matter what we do and where we go, there is a tangible impact of internet on every layer of life. And this is a challenge before us to adjust or customize our style of action and reaction to suit the need of the situations or circumstances. But, the domain of ...

The internet has brought about the possibility of networking easily. Everywhere and literary everything that a person does calls for some private information to be released. This therefore calls for concern on whether the information can be accessed by any interested party after one has released it. It is possible for a person, company or organization to access real time information from anywhere around the world all thanks to the internet. It is for this reason that many people have embraced it, more so the social media. But there is one dark cloud that has ever seems to be hanging on ...

Addictive behavior towards the usage of mobile phones has been exhibited among teenagers across the globe. A majority of them have given cell phones priority more than anything else including education. This has therefore led to an assumption that cell phone addiction has adversely affected them in regard to their education. Cell phones may have improved communication but its addiction has proven to affect the growth and development of teenagers.

Cell Phone Addiction and its Effects on Teenage Education

There has been a great deal of technological advancements in the recent past which of course has impacted human life in a big way. One of these is the innovation of ...

IRC vs Web-based Chat

With the current trend of internet and wireless communication Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Web-based chat have been standing out. These two applications enable chatting or sending messages through the aid of an internet connection in real-time. IRC has been one of the earliest ways of chatting which millions of people are now currently using but is slowly being replaced by web-based chatting. Aside from their capabilities of sending real-time messages, both types of chatting offers the capability to set private chatrooms where only authorized users can view and interact with you. Of course, one can also join the ...

Introduction

Over the past decade the nature of the web, internet access, and other internet applications have become increasingly useful in the normal lives of human beings. Kedem argues that “The Internet creates new ways for citizens to communicate, congregate, and share information of a social nature. It is obvious that the Internet has and will continue to change the way we live” (2.math.umd.edu 2). Notable in importance because of their popularity are social networks and social networking sites (SNSs). They are important also due to their effect on daily human activities. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, Blogs, LinkedIn, Wikis, and ...

The use of cell phones while driving has long been a standard issue with the law and drivers. It is widely considered to be a dangerous practice to use a phone while driving for the obvious reason that it detracts from your concentration and means you are more likely to cause an accident as a result. Internationally, a lot of countries have begun to make using a cell phone while driving an illegal act, however in the US, it is only several states who have fully banned the activity. More states have implemented more specific laws such as novice drivers and school bus drivers as ...