Week+4

Lab Assignment 4 outline [due February 4, 2010 at 11:59pm]

 * **Topic: " Connected or Disconnected?"**
 * Tip: Think about this in the context of this course: "CCT205 Digital Innovation and Cultural Transformation"
 * Length: short, 2-3 paragraphs


 * With the emergence of social networking web sites such as Facebook, and Twitter, and MySpace, I feel like it has allowed society to stay more connected in a sense of the whole ideology of the "global village." It has acted as a gateway for people to communicate across the world easier and instantaneous. As a result to these social networking technologies, it becomes easier for us to be able to communicate with others and stay connected with our networks instantaneously despite factors such as time or location.

But in a way these social networking websites have ultimately "disconnected" us from traditional forms of social communication which takes away the physical aspect of human interaction. There is less "face-to-face" confrontation and which has led to several issues such as anti-socialism etc.

It becomes arguable that these social networking websites are either connecting us with the world and at the same time disconnecting us with reality. I believe that ultimately these websites have allowed us to do things that people 50 years ago wouldn't even imagine and it is amazing how connected we are with the world even though we are so far away. The internet has truly revolutionized our society in a way that we are able to maintain communication with others despite physical boundaries.

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