Blame

title>Blame

Since the print in the picture is very small, this is what the characters talk about.

Picture 1:

Character one:Ha Ha! The United Nationa has Declared Internet Access A Basic Human RIght! That's the most Ridiculous thing I've ever Heard!

Picture 2:

Character one:Hey!? The Network Has Stopped working!

Character two: Rather than Argue about how essential internet Access is ,I took the liberity of reconfiguring the wifi network, blocking your access. Picture 2:

Character one: That was childish and immature, and won't get me to change my opinion.

Picture 3:

Character one: WAAAAH! Give it back you dictator!

Character two: Supply me with my basic human right to pizza, and I may tel you the new password.

There tends to be a lot of disagreements about the impact the Internet has on society, especially youth. Is the Internet making individuals stupid or smarter? The Internet is not a person capable of influencing. The Internet is a folder that contains information. Individuals are the ones placing the information within the folder. Folders do not know what information is accurate and what is not. The Internet cannot improve or decrease the intelligence of individuals but the quality of information within the folder can. When youth search the folder or Internet and pick out pieces of paper or websites that provide inaccurate information who is at fault? A child who reads in their text book that Columbus discovered American and trusts the information. Who is to blame, the child, the textbook or both?

Individuals tend to blame others for their choices, misunderstandings and false perceptions. Placing the blame somewhere else allows for individuals to not be at fault. In ‘Clive Thompson on the New Literacy’, she wrote that Andrea Lunsford a professor at Stanford University claims that “we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution”, “technology isn’t killing our ability to write it’s reviving it- and pushing our literacy in bold new directions”.  I wonder if writing and thinking changed when individuals went from drawings to writing words. Did the world change when these words were printed and is the world changing now that they are being placed in the Internet? Maybe the argument stems from the belief that there is one correct form of thinking or that this change if thinking and writing is being misunderstood.  Maybe my placing the blame on the youth leads to reducing the fear that they can teach and reach this new generation with the only thinking they know.

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Reference

JoyOfTech. Basic Human Right To Internet Access. 16 June 2011. Geek Humor.  http://www.ihaveapc.com/2011/06/basic-human-right-to-internet-access/

/>Thompson, Clive. 24 August 2009. Clive
/>Thompson on the New Literacy. Tech Biz. WIRED MAGAZINE: 17.09

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