Even though the reading made it seem like reading is much better then playing video games. There was a few good points made about playing video games . It was said that video games were good because they help you work on using your hand and eye at the same time. But they did point out the fact that videos are played way more then books are read, and that video games were out for way longer then books.
I don't read unless i have to but at the same time i dont play video games eaither, but i do use the computer as well as the phone way more then i read. The reading says that reading books is some thing you do alone therefor you are in your own place and isn't interacting with anyone but yourself. On the other hand when you are on the computer the phone or playing a video you are interacking with some thing , and that makes me belive thats why people enjoy it the most .
I don't read unless i have to but at the same time i dont play video games eaither, but i do use the computer as well as the phone way more then i read. The reading says that reading books is some thing you do alone therefor you are in your own place and isn't interacting with anyone but yourself. On the other hand when you are on the computer the phone or playing a video you are interacking with some thing , and that makes me belive thats why people enjoy it the most .
Hi Brittani
ReplyDeleteFor one I really liked what you said about Feed primarily that it is much scarier to think about as an outsider looking in. I also think that was one of the factors that made feed such an awakening book. Also your comment where you made the connection of even the older people using the feeds to older people on facebook was very insightful and I didn’t realize it until you pointed it out. You also brought up a good point in hw 14 when you said that we like computers, and phones, and video games etc. because its more enjoyable and you interact with others.
I think that your main point for homework 14 was that although video games have some good qualities like increased eye hand coordination, books indirectly make people more active and intelligent. Also I may be wrong but I think in homework 13 you were saying that we could live without the Internet, which is our equivalent to the feed.
Your idea in homework 14 about people being more interested in spending their time with technology and digital representation devices instead of reading a book or the newspaper is very similar to a lot of what has been mentioned in class. Unfortunately for our culture that the computer and the television are more appealing. In addition I can agree and relate to what you said in I think homework 12 that M.T. Anderson not only made this an allegory for modern teenage life but the rest of society as well.
I think one thing that might have made your post for homework 12 better is if you expanded on how you feel about some of the comparisons, like when you talked about having everything at your finger tips, does that upset you is it all bad, all good? it also might be a good idea to proofread just a little because a few times you forgot a word but it wasn’t that big deal
One thing that your post helped me realize was the smaller comparisons in feed and the real life. The post you created on feed got me thinking even more about is this was we truly look like? If someone in the 17th century wrote a book about all of digital media in out life and the addiction to digital we have would they be as shocked as we are to feed?
Great posts see you in class
evan