In this essay, Shinozuka argues that millennials are too dependent on technology, with said dependency ultimately degrading their minds and interpersonal relationships. The author attempts to use the rhetorical triangle to persuade her audience, and at times succeeds. While Shinozuka cultivated an environment that
Many things have changed over the last fifty years and as the times change people begin to think differently. In the essay titled “I’m Not Texting. I’m Taking Notes.” by Jonah Stillman he highlights an excellent example of how just how different the generations of people are. Something that angered me about this essay was when the kid was in the meeting with the adults talking about blackboard he took out his phone to begin talking notes on the lecture and everyone thought he was merely texting or checking out his twitter feed.
Jean Twenge article “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation,” was related to her research on generation x and how adaptable children can become. In it, Twenge argues that smartphone addiction in the younger generation can lead to mental health issues, and should be pressed for attention regarding parental supervision. Twenge a psychology professor who has been studying generational differences for 25 years and believes there are changes in generation behaviors. Begins with a number of personal stories about growing up as a member of generation x and baby boomers and how she came to studying and surveying young minds. Explaining how increasing studies show that for many teenagers, the amount of social media intake can lead to isolation.
The Future In “The New Greatest Generation - Why Millennials Will Save Us All”, Joel Stein argues that the advancement of technology has shaped millennials. He supports this argument by first expressing the older generation’s disbelief towards millennials then suggesting how millennials are adapting to what is given to them. Stein’s purpose is to let people see millennials differently in order to see why they’re different. This article was filled with data and explanations that made you think twice about millennials.
The article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” was written by Jean M. Twenge and published in The Atlantic. The article analyzes how Millennials are on the brink of a mental-health crisis due to the increase usage of smartphones. The differences that define generations have always been prominent, however, there has been an abrupt shift in teen behaviors and emotional states since the Great Recession in 2009. The millennial generation, referred to as iGen, has been shaped by the advent of smartphones and the increase usage of social media. Today’s teens are physically safer, however, they are on the brink of a devastating mental-health crisis.
We live in a world where technology is always evolving and improving. Phones have become essential to our daily lives. This also means that social media is at the palm of our hands. We can’t even discriminate the use on just teenagers anymore. Older generations are just as bad with the use of technology and social media too.
In Jean Twenge’s article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” Twenge paints a picture of a generation so obsessed with their phones that it’s leading to disastrous consequences. Twange argues that the negative changes in teens today are directly caused by their cell phone usage and fails to recognize the many different factors the go into these issues. And while some of Twange’s issues are valid, they are not necessarily issues with smartphones, but issues of a changing society.
The omnipresence of the smartphone affects adolescents in every section of the United States, regardless of social class and ethnic background. Jean Twenge established ethos when he stated,“he had been studying generational differences for 25 years and that he started when was a 22 year old doctoral student in psychology”(2). Since he has been studying different generations for many years he knows
In recent discussions of smartphones, a controversial issue has been how the excessive use of smartphones are affecting the adolescents of this generation. Jean M. Twenge argues in her article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” that the redundant use of these gadgets along with social media use is in fact detrimental to the current and upcoming generations. My experience using Snapchat, Instagram, and other applications on my smartphone supports Twenge’s stance because the excessive use of these applications has caused me to feel melancholic. According to Twenge, “Psychologically, however, they (iGens) are more vulnerable than Millennials were: Rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011.
The article, ‘Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?’, author Jean M. Twenge discuses how smartphones have changed the lives of many in a lot of negative ways. The reason for Twenge writing this article was because Twenge talked to a 13-year old girl about smartphones and realized how things have changed greatly over the years. Twenge informs the reader how about ¾ American teens own an IPhone in 2017. The author then goes on to compare recent years to earlier years.
Each generation boasts its own set of values, norms, and technological fluencies (Smith & Anderson, 2018). Take, for instance, the Baby Boomers, who often cherish face-to-face interactions and formal language, mirroring communication theories that underscore the significance of contextual norms. In contrast, Millennials and Generation Z, raised amidst the digital revolution, gravitate towards digital communication avenues teeming with emojis and multimedia elements. The advent of technology further widens the chasm between generations. Older individuals, unaccustomed to the digital whirlwind, may find themselves adrift in a sea of modern communication tools.
In the article, it states, “[Glenbard East sophomore Kelly Tautkus says] ‘Our generation is all about texting, video games, how many likes have we got on social media,’” (Is This Generation Really More Informed?, paragraph #10). This proves how Millennials spend their time or how they manage it. This also proves that video games, texting, and worrying about how many likes one gets on social media, does not help with getting enough information for what is going about in the world.
Is this generation more informed? In the AVID Weekly article,”Is this generation really more informed?”, Palder and Sameeha look into how technology and social media affect the current generation, also referred to as Millennials. This generation is really more informed than the previous generation, millennials do take advantage of technology and or social media. This generations millennials talk to millennials through messages and or phone calls to tell them something important or to work on school related stuff.
The article “The Me Me Me Generation” by Joel Stein mentions how Millennials are a self-centred generation who have been raised with many participation awards and parents who mistakenly believed that strengthening their self-esteem was they key to success rather than focusing more on strengthening up their character and skills. Stein mentions that the younger generation lives mostly through screens, whether those on phones, iPad’s, or computers, and believes someway that it is entitled to success without experiencing the rough situations in lifetime. Stein also presented studies showing that the incidence of narcissistic personality disorder among Millennials is massive. Stein concludes the article by mentioning that this has not taken him by surprise, because this began with their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers, or known as the “Me Generation.” Millennials seek to make their own mark on the world.
Globalisation is a key factor in today’s modern society with it spreading to even the most remote and poverty ridden continents of the world. It shows how something as simple as a mobile phone can help spread this on a global scale. Africa is the world’s poorest continent with people earning from 75p to £1.50 a day, after taking a closer look and researching into mobile phone use in Cape Town, Zanzibar and The Gambia it shows how local people’s lives are being changed due to the use of a mobile phone. In Africa alone the use of the mobile phone has increased by 65% in the last 5 years[1], this being the first method of ICT that has actually been adopted by locals due to the low price of a handset. Mobile phones are a technologic advancement that have been around since the early 1980’s, they were first seen as a fashion accessory in countries with good economic climates that could afford the very expensive handsets.
