Internet Enabled Trends and Social Norms - Positive or Negative?
Julie Cover
How have Internet-Enabled Trends, including Gaming and the Communication Revolution Changed Social Norms, and are These Changes a Net Positive or Negative for Society?
Gaming
- Benefits
- Addiction Concerns
Communication
- Echo Chambers
- Toxicity
- Language Changes
Gaming: Addiction
- Incredible number of users
- Peer encouragement via social media
- Engineered to keep playing (dark patterns)
Gaming: Benefits
- Hard Work
- Motivation
- Social Skills
Communication: Echo Chambers
“A situation in which people only hear opinions of one type, or opinions similar to their own”
Communication: Toxicity
- Disinhibition and Anonymity
- Harassment
Communication: Language
- Offset limitations
- Computer focused language
Conclusion: Gaming
- Need more research
“Simply loving [a game] doesn't mean a student is on the road to gaming addiction”
Conclusion: Communication
- Parts are definitely negative
- More efficient world
Works Cited
- Echo Chamber [Def. 2]. (n.d.) In Cambridge Online Dictionary, Retrieved March 24, 2019, from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/echo-chamber
- Kessler, E. (2013). SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE MOVEMENT OF IDEAS. European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe, 46(1), 26-35. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/42751114
- McGonigal, J. (Feb. 2010) Gaming can make a better world. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world
- Mueller, C. (2016). Positive Feedback Loops: Sarcasm and the Pseudo-Argument in Reddit Communities. Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 16(2), 84–97. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1176858&site=ehost-live
- Quattrociocchi, W. (2017). Inside the Echo Chamber. Scientific American, 316(4), 60–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0417-60
- Schwartz, Sarah. (2018). Educators Battling Class Distractions Of “Fortnite” Game. Education Week, 37(29), 1–8. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=trh&AN=129617597&site=ehost-live