Digital Culture assignment #1
DIGITAL CULTURE
ASSIGNMENT #1
NOTE!: reading the book is not required!!, you can answer the questions using summaries about them online or reading the Preface of the book (you can easily find summaries about them using google.com) . your answer should be 2 pages max. for each question.
- IDEAS CHANGE (Alone together: why we expect more from technology
and less from each other, Sherry Turkle)
Sherry Turkle’s current book, Alone together: why we expect more from technology
and less from each other (2010) is one in a series that included The second self:
computers and the human spirit (1984), and Life on the screen: identity in the age
of the Internet (1995). Summarize Sherry Turkle’s current position. How is it
different from her findings in the past?
- WHO DID IT? (Steve Jobs book, by Isaacson)
Steve Jobs, more than anyone else, is responsible for today’s digitech culture.
Discuss.
example of a summary:
- BEING THE 900 MILLIONTH USER ON FACEBOOK DOES NOT GIVE YOU
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. (The Facebook Effect , by David Kirkpatrick)
Facebook is popular, but is it significant? Discuss.
