M3 Digital Comm Flashcards
How technology has created more anxiety for people who have face-to-face conversations where communication cannot be edited and reworked (Turkle)
Others look at their phones and it deteriorates conversation. Empathy is lacking because people are distracted by tech.
How technology has created more anxiety for people who have face-to-face conversations where communication cannot be edited and reworked (Turkle)
Does two things to conversation: makes conversation move to trivial matters, Loss of empathy. The cellphone symbolizes that we are elsewhere. Empathy is born in conversations without cellphones
Turkle’s distinction of anti-technology and pro-conversation
If you are using tech in a way to thats opens conversation with others then she is for it. If tech is closing conversation than that is a problem
According to Turkle, why is relying on texting as a primary mode of communication problematic?
> Turkle posits that texting isolates and alienates people because it is not a fully authentic and deep connection.
Turkle believes that using text messaging as a primary form of communication allows individuals to be constantly connected digitally, and that young people no longer have proper social skills because they rely so heavily on texting.
Turkle blames constant connectivity and the presence of cell phones for young peoples lack of real life connections and aversion to phone calls as well as in person conversation.
Why are we lonely but fearful of intimacy according to Turkle?
Digital connections offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship
How does Turkle think our networked life allows use to hide from each other even as we are tethered together?
We would rather text than talk
Why are the compulsions of networked life dangerous to Turkle?
She thinks young people are more concerned with “being interrupted for digital connections” than they are with their well being. Texting while driving and bumping into things.
What does Turkle think technology prevents in young people
Empathy and connection
How does social media allow us to present ourselves online
Social media platforms allowing us to “construct” our identities either ideally, authentically, or inauthentically
