Digital Nation

In class on thursday, we watched a report titled, "Digital nation". This was about how technology has effected everyone in the world, both positively and negatively. When technology first came about, it was a very positive addition to the world. Even though it still is today, it is slowly changing into a negative effect to many. This film looks to find a change to technologies negative effects.

I have to say that this film was very interesting. It is amazing how much technology has taken over the world. Yet, I can relate to this very much. Technology has definitely taken over my life. I am attached to my blackberry, so much that, I did not even consider giving it up for my media deprivation weekend. I do not know what I would do without a television and all my favorite tv shows. As a result of my media deprivation weekend, I concluded just how attached I am to Facebook. Lastly, my computer, which is also another addiction and my number one distraction when I am home. Anyway, this film stated that all teenagers think they are good at multi-tasking. Before watching the film, I assumed I was a good multi-tasker because simply, I can do more than one thing at once. It never really occurred to me that I could not do it. But after watching the part of the film where they tested teenagers on multi-tasking, I wondered, Am I really that good at multi-tasking? How does multi-tasking really effect my work in school? The results of the experiment in the video said that teenagers are actually bad multi-taskers. They put in less effort toward what they are doing when they multi-task because there whole mind is not thinking about what subject. Which makes a lot of sense. If you are doing two things at one, your mind needs to split and think about two separate things, so all your effort is not going into your important work.

Another part of the film that I wanted to comment on was the video gaming. I think it is crazy just how addicted people in Japan are to video games. I was shocked when the film said that two people actually died in the video game place from playing too long without proper food and water. I was truly amazed.

Overall, I enjoyed the film, Digital Nation. It opened my eyes to how the world of technology is effecting people and the world itself.