Chapter 5 Response
In at least 250 words, compose an initial post regarding the following prompt:
¡ Critics of online social networking sites have expressed concern that excessive online networking will diminish participants’ ability to socialize normally in face-to-face environments.
¡ Discuss the legitimacy of this concern.
§ Draw upon your personal experiences with social networking.
¡ Some emerging signs suggest that people who have grown up in the era of digital technology are losing the ability to engage fully in unmediated forms of experience.
Do you sit with your friends and text to someone who is not there?
Do you broadcast your daily activities on social media?
Do you have difficulty empathizing with those around you, preferring virtual interaction?
Jenkins Response
In at least 250 words, compose an initial post regarding the following prompt:
Jenkins’s claim that “when people take media into their own hands, the results can be wonderfully creative; they can also be bad news for all involved” (para. 39) presents the two outcomes as equally possible. Write a response in which you support Jenkins’s assumption or weigh the outcomes and decide that one is more likely. If you argue the latter position, what tips the balance in favor of the side you chose?
