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(free) >   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  The Weakening Effects of Technology          literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org Forum Index -> Dialogues View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Sitaram Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079 Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:26 am    Post subject: The Weakening Effects of Technology literarydiscussions: what are you writing about aderrnd9110 : the impacts of audoivisual on books aderrnd9110 : audiovisual* literarydiscussions: interesting... aderrnd9110 : do u have anything for me on it ? literarydiscussions: when I was a child around 1954, (I was the first television generation), ... when the radio would play Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.... literarydiscussions: why, my mind, my imagination would fill, like fireworks.... with images from the melody and lyrics literarydiscussions: i was 4 or 5 literarydiscussions: but... you see,.... today... people watch a music VIDEO, which tells their imagination what to see.... literarydiscussions: so... in a way..... minds were more exercised back then,... without the visual aderrnd9110 : pls send this to my mail literarydiscussions: ok... literarydiscussions: you see, by analogy,... for centuries, prior to 1940's, when penicillin was invented, individuals would die from various infections, or illnesses, sometimes at an early age, BUT the entire race, the species, was very strong, hardy, durable, resiliant, precisely because any weakness or infirmity died off at an early age, or even in infancy, hence the survivors and their children were very resistant to disease.... BUT.... literarydiscussions: in past 100 years,... medicine and surgery has allowed even the weakest and sickliest, to survive to adulthood and to have children.... THEREFORE, the individual is now better off, BUT the human species becomes weaker as a group, more dependent on antibiotics and surgery to survive... literarydiscussions: the weaker modern species of man, in highly civilized societies, can no longer take a drink from a stream, without getting a disease, but must have water from bottles, especially purified... literarydiscussions: think how healthy the native american indian was, in the wild, for centuries, before the european came, with no medicine or health care or surgery... aderrnd9110 : interesting literarydiscussions: NOW,.... carry the analogy across, to the IMAGINATIONs and minds of previous centuries, who did not have audiovisual, and video games, and cell phones,... and internet, bombarding them, with amusement, or what to think literarydiscussions: when i was a child, there were no google search engines, or internet,.... and a school homework assignment, in history for example, would send us to the library, to search the card catalog, and the encyclopedies, and the indexes of many books... literarydiscussions: in order to anwer the questions of the assignment.. literarydiscussions: in 8th grade,... I spent a weekend trying to find information about "The Concordat of Worms,Germany"... literarydiscussions: today, a child simply does google search, and then, cuts and pastes information... literarydiscussions: we see the mind become more passive, lazy, less motivated to dig and search.... literarydiscussions: this is not true of everyone, of course, but certainly is true of many. Back to top Sitaram Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079 Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:58 am    Post subject: aderrnd9110 : Thanks for these hope it will come to my mail like this ? literarydiscussions: i have sent the mail now literarydiscussions: and, i can edit all this, and post it at my message board http://www.literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org aderrnd9110 : thanks literarydiscussions: http://literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org/ftopic904.php literarydiscussions: I posted also, under "The Weakening Effects of Techonolgy" as my title for the post aderrnd9110 : thank u so much for the mails literarydiscussions: i do hope you can join my egroup for voicesofafricaunited.... as it is new, and i have only 2 members aderrnd9110 : ok i will literarydiscussions: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/voicesofafricaunited/ literarydiscussions: my means of an egroup.. then many may post, and all shall receive, either individual emails as they are posted... or if one prefers, they may choose to receive a daily summary digest of all posts aderrnd9110 : i think i have joined already literarydiscussions: very good, thanks literarydiscussions: where are you located again, your city and country aderrnd9110 's status is now "Available". (1/9/2006 5:37 AM) aderrnd9110 : Lagos , Nigeria literarydiscussions: ok... i want to also post our chat to the voicesofafrica egroup... and I will mention your city and country aderrnd9110 : pls do literarydiscussions: i am posting now... you see how many may participate and share in dialogues on such topics my means of message board and egroup aderrnd9110 : i like it so much aderrnd9110 : i was recently elected as the next president of my Rotary club literarydiscussions: now, technology and medicine may weaking us in one respect, but strengthen us in another... aderrnd9110 : and i shall be asking all of u in this house for favour towrds my year and u in particular aderrnd9110 : so be prepared literarydiscussions: when firearms and guns were invented, one person commented "the rifle has made every tailor into a warrior" literarydiscussions: certainly... aderrnd9110 : so tell everybody in the group literarydiscussions: a movie was made of the life of Malcom X, our civil rights leader, and I think in that movie, it said "When the European came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the black man had the land, and when the black man left Africa, the black man had the Bible and the white man had the land." This saying was very powerful in the media, catching the attention of the public audiences. aderrnd9110 : you are right literarydiscussions: so... here is an example of audiovisual media working in a positive manner with regard to social injustice literarydiscussions: a knife in the hands of a skilled surgeon does great good, but in the hands of a bad surgeon, or a criminal, it does much harm literarydiscussions: any tool may be used either as an instrument of good or evil aderrnd9110 : yes literarydiscussions: there is a book in the usa which documents the portrayal and depiction of blacks during the 19th and 20th century... aderrnd9110 : pls post this dicussion literarydiscussions: in the 19th century, blacks were portrayed in drawings and posters in a very negative fashion,.... portrayed as clowns, or rascals, or very simple literarydiscussions: but, you see, since the civil rights movies of the 1960s, gradually blacks entered into the media portraying doctors, lawyers, judges and politicians... aderrnd9110 : interesting literarydiscussions: so you see, now, media teaches the general public to see the charm and beauty of Woopie Goldberg , for example, or the wisdom of Oprah Winfree, or the authority of Condoleeza Rice literarydiscussions: so.... the image and perception of blacks, and also of women in general, is benefited by the changes in the use of audiovisual media tools literarydiscussions: but, of course, media and audiovisual was used by the Nazis in Germany to portray the Jew as socially undesirable, evil, etc literarydiscussions: nowadays, the plots of our television and movie dramas echo and explore the current events... aderrnd9110 : infact i am more enlightened by u literarydiscussions: one sees many stories and fictional dramas now involving arab terrorists... literarydiscussions: BBC in britain produced a televisioin drama about a "dirty bomb" exploding in England.... literarydiscussions: the catch an arab terrorist who is responsible... and he says some chilling words.... cant remember exactly... but something like "it is the fear/terror which UNITES us Muslims and divides YOU non-muslims" literarydiscussions: so, we see how media can set a "spin" upon our understanding of current events and world events, by concentrating on dramatizations of certain themes aderrnd9110 : i may have to go now literarydiscussions: ok... best of luck on your project literarydiscussions: are you in Internet Cafe literarydiscussions: how much per hour, 150 neira? literarydiscussions: i have another friend in Lagos, Samuel Otsatuyi aderrnd9110 : correct aderrnd9110 : u are corect literarydiscussions: aha, excellent, my information is reliable... literarydiscussions: appx $1 usa dollars aderrnd9110 : yes literarydiscussions: in large cities in USA, internet cafee ranges between $4 in a poor bldg/neighborhood aderrnd9110 : got to go literarydiscussions: to $10 in a fancy neighborhood aderrnd9110 : byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee literarydiscussions: ok aderrnd9110 : thanks Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         literarydiscussions.myfreeforum.org Forum Index -> Dialogues All times are GMT - 5 Hours Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum Showcase----------------You must CONTACT SITARAM directly to JOIN this message boardVoices of Africa UnitedHOW TO JOIN THIS FORUM. 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