Workpress Research Log for Project 3

My Workpress Research Log for Project 3!

Christakis, Nicholas, and James Fowler. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives: Connected provides a sense of reflecting on human society and how social networking has always succeeded. It breaks down how a global community makes us value various opinions, but we have to adapt to the rate of all this information. Facebook is the new face of what Social Network could be.

http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/16.1/praxis/balzhiser-et-al/notes.html: The Facebook Pages is a rather unique presentation of creating a classroom and submitting assignments/personal information through a Facebook presentation. It shows that we value Facebook for bringing us closer and giving us more ways to understand others, but it can be overwhelming to look at so much at once.

Rheingold, Howard. Net Smart: How to Thrive Online: Rheingold makes us understand that Facebook, as useful as it is, presents new challenges within the outside world. We value thoughts differently due to the impact of Facebook and we have to view each profile as an new prospective to that same person. It could drastically affect your life to try and have a mix-life balancing both types of communication.

Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together: Alone Together is Turkle coming to a realization of how technology has made us connect with one another at a greater scale, but make us still feel isolated and lonely. I wanted to bring Turkle’s perspective, because she had a lot of personal friends who she called upon within the book. She really reflected over how looking over so many people at once creates a new feeling responsibility and anxiousness, as we can observe everyone while everyone can observe us.