Monday, May 2, 2011

Is DMA Bad For Us?

"Worries about the control of information", "worries about who controls the authority to speak", "worries about the future of secrecy and privacy", "it seems to play such a key role in enabling information to leak, in allowing the authority to speak to become widespread".


As time progresses, and we construct further advances throughout the digital world, the question "Is digital media bad for us?" always tends to surface at some point. What benefits, and more importantly, what negatives are we left with as a result?


After continuous studies, there are major social-political worries,social-interpersonal issues, psychological, cognitive and emotional concerns, and behavioral practical worries.


There is a large fear that as the younger generations become  more dependent on the digital world, that they are loosing contact with the real world. Less and less make actual psychical contact, communicating by means only of texting, phones, digital mail and email, and social networks. Personal confrontations become something of the past, allowing fewer physical emotions and expressions to be transferred. 


Another fear is that of the vast and fast spread of news. With the ability to upload documents, news papers, documentaries, news casts, videos, or anything digital, news  and information, whether its true or not, spreads like wildfire. With in the first few minutes of being uploaded, millions of people view and comment their opinion on the matter. With this in mind, there is always that slight possibility that if something were to be posted wrong, or wrong info was given, that it may intern cause a global widespread panic. 


More and more people also have tended to become more "apathetic", and have a lack  of personality, staying glued to their computer screens, ipods, phones, and laptops all day. Checking the news, watching videos, listening to music,  reading a digital book. Digital technology, in my mind, has really destroyed many great things. its very rare to find someone who can actually sit outside and just listen to nature. Most universities or major businesses that have people sitting outside during the day, most likely have several digital devices with in their presence. Rather than just laying and watching the sky, having an intellectual conversation with a friend or someone new, reading an actual physical book with binding, or just eating casually and listening to nature rather than mp3's, is a very uncommon thing, and has seemingly made us more dependent on the digital things.

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