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Sherry Turkle has studied how technology effects our communication process day-to-day. She plans to speak to attendees at the University of Arizona about the advancement of technology with the recent generation growing up with cellular devices and what that has done to communication. Turkle discusses the new world people grow up in that has virtual reality systems like social networking and more young would rather spend time typing out letters on a cellphone for a text message than speak face-to-face to an individual. Technology and its role in communication characteristics not only engulfs public conversation, but influences business interactions as well. In Turkle’s book, “Reclaiming Conversation,” she confronts how new forms of technology, whatever kind it may be, has been studied to affect human values towards empathy.
How is it related to the class and topics we have discussed?
Turkle’s analysis and lecture on technology and its incorporation into everyone’s daily lives is a problem that every student today will encounter. For MIS relation, the latest topic about use cases can define business’s actions as to how employees interact with other workers and users using technological negotiations. For example, in Module 3 the Cool Cuts receptionist may have a list of expectations and exceptions to stop a particular path. If a customer was scheduling an appointment for a haircut the receptionist had expectations of what can be offered over the phone as it possibly differs from what the receptionist writes in a standard email message.
How is the information is helpful?
Conversation has been infiltrated by technology to form digital conversation and poses a problem for future generations for parents to children must reclaim the reputation of physical communication. Whether each of us pursue a career in MIS or not, the criticality of communication culture and its affiliation with technology is one of several missions all of us challenges to prevent overthrow standard contact. If not, the English language will lose more power to a new language which began from lazy acronyms and misspellings in text messages.
Opinion
The rise of technology in the past few decades inadvertently conflicts everyone worldwide as to the threat it carries. Currently, the parents from the baby boomer generation strain fighting for real and not virtual realities. As new millennials, the youth ascending to parent their children will need to see technological devices as an ally, not an adversary. Parents should allow their family to use devices, but inform others that there are certain times, like while at dinner, for each individual to forgo virtual communication while face-to-face with others.
Posted below, is a recent news event reported this morning on US national news casts. After much debate on security and for Apple to release information to view public data, the FBI has found a way to penetrate system files. This correlates to Turkle’s research as she has focused on communication in the realm of technology, but this article shows how another focus for the future will be cybersecurity.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iphone-case-cracked/index.html
This is a pretty simple view of Turkle's point, so not sure what you read. It's not just about what is relevant for MIS students, but why is it important to have face-to-face conversations? What do we learn by having it vs. keeping our heads in our screens?
ReplyDeleteThe article on cybersecurity is not mentioned by Turkle, so not really relevant for this topic.