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A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?
Fifteen years ago, computers were mainly the province of science, engineering, and business. By 1998, approximately 40 roughly one third of these homes had access to the Internet. Many scholars, technologists, and social critics believe that these changes and the Internet, in particular, are transforming economic and social life.
However, analysts disagree as to the nature of these changes and whether the changes are for the better or worse. Some scholars argue that the Internet is causing people to become socially isolated and cut off from genuine social relationships, as they hunker alone over their terminals or communicate with anonymous strangers through a socially impoverished medium.
Others argue that the Internet leads to more and better social relationships by freeing people from the constraints of geography or isolation brought on by stigma, illness, or schedule. According to them, the Internet allows people to join groups on the basis of common interests rather than convenience.
Arguments based on the attributes of the technology alone do not resolve this debate. People can use home computers and the Internet in many different ways and for many purposes, including entertainment, education, information retrieval, and communication.
If people use the Internet mainly for communication with others through e-mail, distribution lists, multiuser dungeons (MUDs), chats, and other such applications, they might do so to augment traditional technologies for social contact, expanding their number of friends and reducing the difficulty of coordinating interaction with them.
On the other hand, these applications disproportionately reduce the costs of communication with geographically distant acquaintances and strangers; as a result, a smaller proportion of people"s total social contacts might be with family and close friends. Other applications on the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, provide asocial entertainment that could compete with social contact as a way for people to spend their time.
Whether the Internet is increasing or decreasing social involvement could have enormous consequences for society and for people"s personal well-being. At the societal level, social disengagement is associated with more corrupt, less efficient government and more crime. When citizens are involved in civic life, their schools run better, their politicians are more responsive, and their streets are safer.
At the individual level, social disengagement is associated with poor quality of life and diminished physical and psychological health. When people have more social contact, they are happier and healthier, both physically and mentally.
Q1) How much time do you usually spend on doing with computer? Does that intterupt your daily life?
Q2) When you play with computer, which site do you often go there?
Q3)This reference say that Internet is causing people to become socially isolated and cut off from genuine social relationships do you agree?
Q4) Near the future, how will internet culture be likely to change? and which way do you hope to be changed?
이 글은「대학연합영어토론동아리」www.pioneerclub.com에서 제공하는 영어토론 정보입니다.
임휘섭: 할말은 많은데..... ㅡ.,ㅡa 우씨.. ㅜ_ㅜ -[07/09]-
Fifteen years ago, computers were mainly the province of science, engineering, and business. By 1998, approximately 40 roughly one third of these homes had access to the Internet. Many scholars, technologists, and social critics believe that these changes and the Internet, in particular, are transforming economic and social life.
However, analysts disagree as to the nature of these changes and whether the changes are for the better or worse. Some scholars argue that the Internet is causing people to become socially isolated and cut off from genuine social relationships, as they hunker alone over their terminals or communicate with anonymous strangers through a socially impoverished medium.
Others argue that the Internet leads to more and better social relationships by freeing people from the constraints of geography or isolation brought on by stigma, illness, or schedule. According to them, the Internet allows people to join groups on the basis of common interests rather than convenience.
Arguments based on the attributes of the technology alone do not resolve this debate. People can use home computers and the Internet in many different ways and for many purposes, including entertainment, education, information retrieval, and communication.
If people use the Internet mainly for communication with others through e-mail, distribution lists, multiuser dungeons (MUDs), chats, and other such applications, they might do so to augment traditional technologies for social contact, expanding their number of friends and reducing the difficulty of coordinating interaction with them.
On the other hand, these applications disproportionately reduce the costs of communication with geographically distant acquaintances and strangers; as a result, a smaller proportion of people"s total social contacts might be with family and close friends. Other applications on the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, provide asocial entertainment that could compete with social contact as a way for people to spend their time.
Whether the Internet is increasing or decreasing social involvement could have enormous consequences for society and for people"s personal well-being. At the societal level, social disengagement is associated with more corrupt, less efficient government and more crime. When citizens are involved in civic life, their schools run better, their politicians are more responsive, and their streets are safer.
At the individual level, social disengagement is associated with poor quality of life and diminished physical and psychological health. When people have more social contact, they are happier and healthier, both physically and mentally.
Q1) How much time do you usually spend on doing with computer? Does that intterupt your daily life?
Q2) When you play with computer, which site do you often go there?
Q3)This reference say that Internet is causing people to become socially isolated and cut off from genuine social relationships do you agree?
Q4) Near the future, how will internet culture be likely to change? and which way do you hope to be changed?
이 글은「대학연합영어토론동아리」www.pioneerclub.com에서 제공하는 영어토론 정보입니다.
임휘섭: 할말은 많은데..... ㅡ.,ㅡa 우씨.. ㅜ_ㅜ -[07/09]-
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