I found it hard to get through The Shallows and then EIM just made me want to cry. First, I'll say that I agree with some other posts, if it's a pink elephant, let's just say "pink elephant" and move on. This stating and restating, wording and rewording seemed like such page fillers that I found it a little too easy to skim.Now, having said that, the book had some very overstated, but well delivered points of view.
First, the overall organization of the 'world' has definitely been changed and with saying that I am also admitting that my age! When looking for my RSS feed, I found this one to be so interesting! What child/teen needs an imaginary friend when they can get companionship on their Ipad in a jif? This application actually syncs your Ipad with your TV to watch a television show and then gives you an almost interactive capability to boot. I mean, my friends and I laugh about updating one another through the American Idol shows by text message or email, but this one really pushes that 'information about your information' concept. So, not only are you watching the show, but your interacting with the concepts, ideas, plot... it's a technological 'gossip girl'. Although I don't know anything about the shows it references (sort of like Jersey Shore--heard of it, but what is it about again?) or how one would even find out if a show is supported with this application, but the option to find out is there none-the-less.
If you don't mind me referencing our other book as well, the fact that Shallows talked about the fact that even though our other areas of media usage have increased, strangely enough, our television usage has not decreased and has even increased at times, gives much clout to the statement in this article that people multitask while watching television and it's only going to increase. Remember when watching television while eating dinner was so cool?!?!? TV dinner and TV stands so we had a mini-table to eat in front of the television. Now we're eating, texting, facebooking (American Idol!), tweeting, emailing, talking on the telephone and painting our toe nails as well... or if you're a mother like me, I'm doing laundry while doing all of those other things (nix the toe nails)
-Angie
Here is the article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/09/16/my.generation.ipad.app/index.html
1 comment:
Yes Angie...... Yes! Yes! I found it hard to read through The Shallows also and I did cry reading EIM.... I think that there are so many other ways and directions he could have went with that book. It had good points, but listening to him on video and then having to actually sit and read his book;trust me I found listening to him to be more entertaining. You made a lot of good points and I agree with them.
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