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Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
Author, Sherry Turkle, strongly believes that technology is interfering with our personal
connections with one another. She explains how technology has slowly advanced and how it
is used as a simulation of companionship. She states that Alone
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Augur
Chauvinism
Titrate
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Tomihama 2
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Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
Sherry Turkle starts to talk about how we view our electronic robots and how it all started.
She shares the creation all different types of robotic companions and how they are viewed by
children and parents. Turkle explains how these robots affect us emotionally and in our daily
lives. She collects answers from people, mostly children, and asks them how they see a robot
as a companion.
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Definitions
1. A test for intelligence in a computer
2. A person/thing that signals the approach
of another
Tomihama 3
Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
Turkle is basically stating the same ideas but with different examples and evidence. She
explains how robotic toys affect children and play with their feelings. Sherry also explains
how we prefer robots over humans and why we confide in them the way we do.
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Tomihama 4
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Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
She explains how different robot companions have been created to assist our needs such as the
elderly. Turkle shares her studies on others experiences with these robots. She stresses that
even though people know that the robot is a machine, they find themselves talking to t as if it
was alive or real. She talks with other roboticists about how they feel they can make robots
seem more real.
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Tomihama 5
Solicitous
Inchoate
Showing interest/concern
undeveloped/rudimentary
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Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
Sherry Turkle now shifts from talking about robotic companions to teens and our apps. She
shares her interviews with numerous teenagers all across America. How our outside life
reflects in how we portray ourselves in online profiles and games. We are given the power to
construct ourselves the way we wish to be and how we have slowly been evolving over time.
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Tomihama 6
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Cacophony
Banal
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Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
In this week's reading, Sherry Turkle interviews teens and adults on their take of technologies
influence. She retells their stories with some who love technology and some who feel that we
would be better without it. Some people feel that it is better that we have technology and it
gives you a chance to display only the good aspects and traits of yourselves. While other
believe it makes it hard to be in solitude without offending the person on the other end.
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Tomihama 7
Poignant
Faustian bargain
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Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
In these chapters, Turkle explains how teens turn to the internet for support or a place to vent.
Some prefer to vent online because your computer wont talk back or judge you. But, some
dislike it because its like you're talking to someone who doesnt care. She shows how some
teens say or do things on the internet without thinking how it will affect them in the future.
Turkle shares some of their views and stories of their experiences and thoughts of online sites.
Technology makes it
easy to blur the line
between confession and
apology, easy to lose
sight of what an
apology is, not only
because online spaces
offer themselves a
cheap alternatives to
confronting other
people but because we
may come to the
challenge of an apology
already feeling
disconnected from
other people. In that
state, we forget that
what we do affects
others (234).
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Tomihama 8
Quips
Proliferate
Ephemeral
Panopticon
A witty remark
Increase rapidly in numbers
Lasting for a very short time
A circular prison
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Guiding Question(s): How has the Influence of the internet altered this generation?
Summary statements of the authors main ideas
In these chapters, Turkle describes how young teens view texting and interacting online. It
shows why some of us are so tethered to our phones and prefer to text than to have a verbal
conversation. How the purpose of texting has evolved.
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Tomihama 9
Certitude
Absolute certainty