Due to the advanced world, we live in, at young ages, individuals are exposed to an abundance of technology that can ultimately affect them in various ways; this can be detrimental to their wellbeing as[…]

“Technology isn’t just changing society — it’s changing what it means to be human,” is the conversation between Illing and Bless about the future of technology and the effects it is having on us. I[…]

“How Twitter Gives Elon Musk The Power To Shape Public Opinion,” was an interesting article to read, because although it has been all over the news that Musk has bought twitter, I had not yet[…]

“From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality to Games,” describes the difference between serious games and entertainment games. The article defines a serious game as one that uses the interactive features for training for government, health[…]

The Ted Talk, “Why I Fight To Close The Digital Divide?” demonstrates how the laws that were made in the 1900s against black people are still in effect these days. Plessy vs Ferguson was reversed[…]

No matter where you were in the world, the pandemic affected everyone’s lives. Humans are social beings, but the world was forced to stop socializing. However, for everyone in this class at least, no one[…]

“Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment,” presents the pros and the cons of technology that are supposed to help individuals with their mental health. The article discusses the variety of mental health apps[…]

The four articles from the New York Times spoke about how remote school is affecting students. “Are We Losing a Generation of Children to Remote Learning?” mentions that students in lower socioeconomic status were less[…]

The story of Amanda Todd was heartbreaking to watch and read about it. Amanda Todd was a girl who met a man online and due to the way, he made her feel, she felt as[…]

Weverse was launched in June of 2019 by Hybe corporation, a South Korean entertainment company. The app was created with the intention of allowing users to have more communication with their favorite K-pop artists. In[…]

Due to the advancements of technology, it has allowed families who cannot be physically together to stay in contact and speak with each other daily. The article, “Keeping Together Long-Distance Families: Technology as a Social[…]

“Life in A Day,” is a movie that documents individuals’ lives on July 24th, 2010. People from all over the world documented what they did from morning to night on this day. It demonstrated the[…]

“Nosedive,” depicts a society that is ultra-focused on how people perceive them. It’s a society in which people are constantly being rated by how they act, interact and what they post on social media; the[…]

“The Social Network,” directed by David Fincher shows how Mark Zuckerberg created his social media platform, Facebook. It specifically details what led Mark to face two lawsuits after launching his platform, showing there was more[…]

“This Action Will Have Consequences”: Interactivity and Player Agency,” Sarah Stang explains whether video games are actually “interactive or reactive” (2). Stang argues that there is only an “illusion of agency” rather, the free will[…]

“Are You Going to Delete Me? Latent Profiles of Post-Relationship Breakup Social Media Use and Emotional Distress,” details how people act after breakups through their use of technology. The authors conducted an experiment to see[…]

“Digital Practices & Applications in a Covid-19 Culture,” details how teachers and students managed the pandemic when classrooms were in people’s homes. There are a multitude of different technologies that schools were able to use[…]

“User experience – a research agenda,” highlights one of the important aspects in creating technology in the 21st century: it’s being made cater to individuals needs to attract them to the product. “Early writings on[…]

“Will we stop speaking and just text?” by James Harbeck goes into the ways speaking has transformed in the last decade and how informal slang is becoming more prominent in daily speech use. Harbeck specifies[…]

“Human- computer interaction: Psychology as a science of Design” by John M. Carroll goes through “reviewing the progression of HCI toward a science of design” (62). Individuals connecting with HCI did not seriously begin until[…]

“What Motivates health information exchange in social media? The roles of social cognitive theory and perceived interactivity,” walks readers through the possible reasons why people feel comfortable enough and want to share health information on[…]

“The Social Media Ecology: User Perceptions, Strategies and Challenges describes” how individuals create their social media ecology. Through asking research participants different questions, the authors try to dig deeper into which specific qualities determine why[…]