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The Shallows and Social Media
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The Shallows and Social Media
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The main focus on this topic is the effects social media has on our ability to communicate using information from the book by Nicholas Carr, “The Shallows: What is The Internet Doing To Our Brains.”
Guiding questions
What is social media?
Does social media impact our communication?
If so, are the impacts positive or negative?
How diverse is social media?
How are the different social media platforms, and does this diversity impact our communication?
What are the solutions to this problem?
Argument
The world transcended into a global brain village with the coming of the internet and the conception of social media. Through the years, as we have enjoyed social, it has been of significance to our cognitive and social selves. Through social medial, a lot of information gets shared from person to person. Social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have broadened our communicative reach. Still, it has also harmed our ability to communicate, all at the same time. Our ability to socialize in real life has diminished since most humans began sharing behind a keyboard.
Informal Research
The sources that will be used in writing the research paper.
Reference Work:
Mohsin, Maryam. “10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know in 2021 [Infographic].” Oberlo.Com, 10 Nov. 2021, www.oberlo.com/blog/social-media-marketing-statistics.
Book:
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Updated, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Articles:
Carr, Caleb T. “Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining.” Taylor & Francis, 6 Feb. 2015, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15456870.2015.972282Bozzola, Elena. “Social Media Use to Improve Communication on Children and Adolescent’s Health: The Role of the Italian Paediatric Society Influencers.” Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 11 Aug. 2021, ijponline.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13052-021-01111-7.
Audio-visual:
“Social Media Is Making Us Unsocial | Kristin Gallucci | TEDxBocaRaton.” YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 27 Nov. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cD5En8Vfg.
Purpose of Essay
This essay aims to bring the use of social into perspective. It has significantly influenced our daily conversations and inherently made us unsocial. This essay will show the negative impact social media has on our ability to communicate with each other and give ways to overcome that negative aspect of social media. The essay’s information reflects the society today shaped by social media and sheds light on how to avoid becoming unsocial.
Annotated Bibliography
Mohsin, Maryam. “10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know in 2021 [Infographic].” Oberlo.Com, 10 Nov. 2021, www.oberlo.com/blog/social-media-marketing-statistics.
This website
Mohsin, Maryam. “10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know in 2021 [Infographic].” Oberlo.Com, This website provides statistics on social media and social media use. It includes data on social media usage by most prominent app, service by generation, time spent on social media, and social media’s positive impact on product branding. This information is focused on social media on businesses. Still, the data is also applicable in knowing the time spent on social media, prominent apps used, and generational use of social media. Determining the average time spent on social media helps us determine how frequently people use social media. This will help conclude that social media has shaped communication and its impact on communication., 10 Nov. 2021, www.oberlo.com/blog/social-media-marketing-statistics.
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Updated, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. This book is written by Nicholas Carr, a renowned columnist of the Atlantic. The book was the brainchild of his famous article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” It is credible as it sites information on various data collected by academic researchers, data science, and official studies. He speaks about how the world got revolutionized through the internet and the changes man is undergoing, thanks to the internet. He alludes that the internet did change human beings. It influences change in our intellectual and cognitive selves, making us lazy in a sense. He cites that “The Internet provides such a feast of distraction that no energy is left for the parts of our brains responsible for complex thought and developing subtle human emotions.” This book is relevant to the essay as it provides us with information on the impact of internet use on our cognitive selves, which affects our socialization and communication., W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Carr, Caleb. “Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining.” Taylor & Francis, 6 Feb. 2015, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15456870.2015.972282?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Caleb Carr, a graduate of Illinois State University with a Bachelor’s degree in communication, wrote the scholarly article “Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining.” In Carr’s article, he talks about how there’s no strictly used definition of Social Media. Instead, a liquid understanding is shared amongst its users. Carr goes on to talk about how social media can “uniquely isolate and test communicative principles to advance our understanding of human-human and human-computer interaction.” In his article, Carr dissects the necessity there is to define social media and have that meaning be applicable clear thru at least 2035
Bozzola, Elena. “Social Media Use to Improve Communication on Children and Adolescent’s Health: The Role of the Italian Paediatric Society Influencers.” Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 11 Aug. 2021, ijponline.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13052-021-01111-7.
Bozzola, Elena. “Social Media Use to Improve Communication on Children and Adolescent’s Health: The Role of the Italian Paediatric Society Influencers.” Italian Journal of Pediatrics is an online article concerned about social media’s effect on children and adolescents; it gives us a specific approach to the research projects. It will guide me by providing a trajectory on social media’s impact on children and teenagers. It will help support the notion that social media affects our social lives cuts across all ages. The article will also help develop suggestions on how to overcome the effects., 11 Aug. 2021, ijponline.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13052-021-01111-7.
“Social Media Is Making Us Unsocial | Kristin Gallucci | TEDxBocaRaton.” YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 27 Nov. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cD5En8Vfg.
“Social Media Is Making Us Unsocial | Kristin Gallucci | TEDxBocaRaton.” YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 27 Nov. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cD5En8Vfg
This is an audio-visual source. It is a speech done by Kristin Gallucci, a renowned marketing expert. She speaks to marketers about people’s emotions and how social media influence them. It will help with the essay as it helps us understand human emotions and how they get triggered through interactions on the internet.
Abstract inquiry
After looking at several abstracts, I found that they all have a specific pattern in writing. They all follow a similar prompt in an essay and are meant to be captivating to the reader of the journal, book, or article. The formula used in writing the abstract is as follows:
First, State the problem to be discussed in the essay
Present the main points of the essay
State the overall importance of the piece.
Provide the background of the information present as required.
Make the writing of the essay as straightforward as possible, use keywords that capture the reader by making the paper’s objectives identifiable.
Below will be the abstract of the essay:
Abstract
What is social media? Does social media impact our communication? Is there diversity in social media spaces? How are the different platforms diversifying our contact with each other? Social media holds an important place in our world today. It has changed the way we think to the way we operate. The social sites are many, and the different areas have a distinct influence on our communications. This essay aims to bring the use of social media into perspective. It has significantly affected our daily conversations and inherently made us unsocial. This essay will show the negative impact social media has on our ability to communicate with each other and give ways to overcome that negative aspect of social media. The essay’s information reflects the society today shaped by social media and sheds light on how to avoid becoming unsocial.
P.R.O.V.E.N Test of Sources
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Updated, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
The above source passes the PROVEN Test. It ticks all boxes upon evaluation
This book aims to persuade readers to support the authors though that the internet has an inherent role in academic ethics. The author purports that the internet seeks to diminish our intellectual ability. If the user is left ungoverned, its impact on our cognitive selves is disastrous. The author packaged this information into as it was initially an article that grew in relevance, and the intended action was to gather comprehensive information on the issue. The target audience for this book is the general public.
The book is relevant in regards to the research proposal. The information the book provides is crucial in building the background of the essay. The facts presented are too detailed and support that social media has led to disastrous outcomes regarding communication. This is because it leans towards how the internet makes us less intelligent. Intelligence is a crucial ingredient to communication. The source’s objectivity is, without a doubt. The information is given in complete order and form. The cultural ideology purported by the author is clear and well defined. The author also uses a mixture of fact and opinion.
The author makes the information in his book verifiable. The book’s end is a list of the works cited and links provided for the data used in compiling the report. The citations used are clickable and can be found on the internet. The book is published by Norton & Company, a renowned world publisher. The author has unquestionable experience working as a reporter and columnist for the Atlantic Newspaper. The book has several reviews and can all be found on the internet. The book also uses recent statics and is relatively new as it was published one year ago.
Synthesis
The author of the book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain, Nicholas Carr. has a catalog of articles; as previously mentioned, he was a columnist for the Atlantic. The article I found more relevant to this research paper is “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” This article speaks to this research paper, touching on social media use and its impact on our socio-cognitive selves.
The question posed in this article is doing the internet influence our ability to think. He uses exciting approaches in trying to lean towards supporting that idea. “The Shallows” is glistening with memorable themes―Friedrich Nietzsche fighting with his typewriter, Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, and other philosophical greats. He uses a very creative approach in the article to refer to how social media has reduced the human brain’s ability to think and conceptualize.
His works follow a similar pattern. They all use scientific information. He idealizes, forms conclusions, and strongly supports his knowledge. The information provided through all his sources is intended for the general public, but keen readers get a complete picture of the writer’s thoughts.
Reflection
I found coming up with this research paper prompt a very informative and essential process. I learned about the techniques of coming up with a research paper. Gathering information for the research paper seems to be the most demanding part of the writing process. The process I used to develop the report included an objective approach. Focusing on the specifics guidance from the internet came in handy.
I used five resources in coming with the prompt. I found using the BEAM approach in utilizing the resources an easy way of coming up with the research paper and would recommend it to other students when writing research papers. I collaborated with fellow students to come up with the right sources and determine the sources’ credibility and order of use. When selecting the topic for the research, I followed a rubric recommended by one of my colleagues. The rubric recommended was first comparing and contrasting the issues chosen by other students, Eliminating the most preferred subjects, and coming up with a list of the problems I could write on. I then Wrote down a rough draft of all difficulties and selected the one which seemed more appealing with information that was easily accessible.
The key takeaways from the assignments include lessons from content researching, source selection, and the research writing process. The studies from content researching include; getting credible information, identifying critical questions for my research, getting credible databases, scrutinizing sources, and the formulae used in writing deduced from these sources.
These lessons are applicable in writing other related topics as well. For example, the information from the website Orbelo.com can be used by fellow students in gathering data about social media use. The data from the article by Bozzola, Elena, can be used in gathering information on social media’s impact on children. The writing rubric is also applicable in all research papers regardless of the topic
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The Senate Bill 4 was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott early September 2018.
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The Senate Bill 4 was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott early September 2018. The bill was a measure to ban the sanctuary cities by punishing jurisdictions that did not fully cooperate with the federal immigration officials with the aim of curbing immigration to Texas (Paxton, 2018). Despite the signing, the bill has been faced by major challenges that include opposition from the immigrants as well as pending cases in courts that awaits to be passed. Many cities that include Austin across the state of Texas has come forward prepared to challenge the bill in court as the law enforcement agencies, local officials as well as the immigration attorneys have been provided with a new task of studying the probable changes that would emerge in the event that the bill is fully passed into law. Therefore, the Senate Bill 4 has been a controversial and to which every side, both the critics and its supporters have no idea of what will follow next as well as what will be the take of the authorities.
According to the Senate Bill 4, a sanctuary city is a city, county or state that has imposed limitations in cooperation with the federal immigration and customs enforcement agents in arresting and detention or the sharing of information that regards immigrants living in the states without the legal requirements (Margulies, 2018). Therefore, this means that the local officials in the sanctuary states choose not to cooperate with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement through sharing information regarding people suspected to have made their way into the states or cities without authorization. Besides, the sanctuary cities may also imply that the local officials may choose not to release some of the unauthorized immigrants in their custody to the federal immigration authorities. Also, the sanctuary cities may be described as cities inhabited by police departments to which have chosen and instructed their officers not to question people about their immigration status.
The Senate bill 4 is aimed at banning such cities to ensure close collaboration between the county jail and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Texas governor signed the bill into law on May 7 during a Facebook live broadcast and to which sparkled various reactions among the residents and officials in Texas. Upon the signing of the bill, two major changes emerged that include; sanctuary counties and other counties in the state of Texas were to comply with the federal immigration agents through providing information regarding the plight of the illegal immigrants in their counties, with no exceptions. The jurisdiction that failed to comply with the bill were eligible to a fine of up to 25,000 dollars a day. The second change is that officers with any law enforcement agency were provided with the rights to question people of their immigration status, a move that had more negatives than benefits to Texans, considering that majority of its residents are immigrants.
Supporters of the Senate Bill 4 claim that the bill would not hurt anyone who is not a criminal. According to Abbott, the bill –SB 4 was targeted to criminals who were in the state illegally and who committed crimes in the state. According to a message sent to the Hispanic community, Governor Abbott appeal to the community is that they do not fall for all of the rumors on broadcast in that if anyone was clean, then they had nothing to fear about. However, the governor added that if anyone was a criminal and have done something wrong, then they had a reason to worry about whether they are in the state legally or illegally.
Apart from the governor’s support to the bill, the Sheriffs of the various countys claimed that the SB 4 would help improve public safety (Villazor & Gulasekaram, 2018). In their expression, the sheriffs claimed that questioning people about their immigration status will help reduce the number of illegal immigrants into the country and through this, the police will be able to monitor the activities of the immigrants. Censorship and collaboration with the ICE would play a great role in countering terrorism in that most of the terrorists are always foreign nationalist who either come to the United States to learn or via the green card while other just cross the borders without being noticed. When a person enters the United States boundaries without being noticed, they might engage in any criminal office as they are not traceable and therefore, the Senate Bill 4 will help in reducing the rate of crimes in the State. Although the bill is aimed at reducing and arresting illegal immigrants, it does not provide a way to bar people from entering the state.
Supporters of the Senate Bill 4 claim that the implementation of the law will encourage self-deportation as those who are living in the US borders illegally will be pressured to leave the state and the country at large in fear of being caught and taken to prison. Through this, the government will be able to reduce the number of immigrants in Texas and the entire country on the basis that illegal immigration will be feared little or no chance for new illegal immigrants.
Despite the governor being in the foreplay in defending the bill, the police departments, which is part of the government, was opposed to the bill. The police departments, with such organizations as the Texas Police Chiefs Association and the Texas Major Cities Chiefs, declared their opposition for the bill. The two organization in an American-Statesman opinion piece dated April 28 said that they were opposed to the Senate Bill 4 as they were of the opinion that the law accelerates the development of a rift between the local police departments and the local immigrant communities and this would lead to a rise in crimes against the immigrants as well as in the broader community (Reed, 2019). The police organizations also claimed that the law would create a class of silent victims and at the same time eliminate the potential for the local community collaboration with the police in solving and as well preventing crimes that related to immigration. To maintain law and order, therefore, the Austin police held a meeting with the Latino and other immigrant communities assuring them that their services and cooperation will remain the same regardless of whether the bill was passed as a law or not, serving the community as they always have without discrimination.
Advocacy groups on the other side claim that questioning people about their migration status will erode the trust of law enforcement considering that every police including the universities and school districts are provided with a mandate to ask people they stop and to whom they suspect of breaking the law regarding immigration. Most of the immigrants into the United States are the people of color, and this translates to the immigrants in Texas. Randomly questioning people of their immigration status does not affect the whites as they are presumed to be legal citizens but affects the people of color that include the black people, Mexicans, and the Latinos. When such happens, these people are confronted based on their skin color and therefore, can be considered as racial profiling. Besides, the advocates claim that the law is against the United States Constitution in that it forces the local government entities to cooperate with the federal immigration enforcement. Therefore, according to advocates, the Senate Bill 4 not only violates the US Constitution by forcing government entities to cooperate but also curtailing the freedom of movement and privacy of the people of color thus promoting racial discrimination.
Sanctuary cities allow for the implementation of more lenient laws to the immigrants, and this implies that fewer immigrants get into the hands of the law enforcement officers, thus being incarcerated for undeserving crimes (O’Connell, 2019). Activists argue that the locking up of immigrants, whether illegal or legal merely because of existing beyond their borders violates the human rights in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). They continue to argue that sanctuary cities provide a potential solution to the overcrowded prisons as most of the imprisoned people are immigrants are arrested merely because they don’t possess the full legal documentation, and thus considered as a threat not only to the state but also to the United States as a whole.
Most of the time, immigration is either caused by drought or war and therefore, most of the immigrants in various nations around the globes are simply in the camps or in the nation because they ran away from their homes in fear of losing their lives. Therefore, not all the immigrants would have preferred to leave their country only to be hunted by the law enforcement of that country as stray dogs. Most of the immigrants are genuine and therefore, the passing of the Senate Bill 4 would imply risking the lives of millions of innocent lives who have run to seek asylum in another country which is more peaceful and better than theirs. Senate Bill 4, therefore, remains to be controversial and may have a lot of harm both to the government of Texas and locals and at the same time promote racial profiling to the people of color.
ReferencesMargulies, P. (2018). Deconstructing Sanctuary Cities: The Legality of Federal Grant Conditions That Require State and Local Cooperation on Immigration Enforcement. Wash. & Lee L. Rev., 75, 1507.
O’Connell, K. L. (2019). Schools in Sanctuary Cities: Do Sanctuary City Policies Diminish Chronic Absenteeism Among Immigrant Children? (Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University).
Paxton, K. (2018). Providing Sanctuary to the Rule of Law: Sanctuary Policies Lawlessness, and Texas’s Senate Bill 4. Harv. J. on Legis., 55, 237.
Reed, M. E. (2019). Senate Bill 4: Police Officers’ Opinions on Texas’ Ban of Sanctuary Cities. Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review, 36(1).
Villazor, R. C., & Gulasekaram, P. (2018). The New Sanctuary and Anti-Sanctuary Movements. UCDL Rev., 52, 549.