Emma Irwin
IP Journal Reflection
This past week, during my two hour and twenty-two-minute-long classes I feel as though we’ve already covered so many interesting topics that have been relevant to many important parts of my life. A couple of the conversations that struck my eye were the conversations about social media, and how we incorporated Sigmund Freud’s view and Hank Morgan’s view. Every Sunday night when I’m home, and throughout my childhood I have been having dinner with my cousins. During all the dinners it’s required that all cellphones are put in a basket where we can’t reach them, and over time I have truly begun to notice the difference between my Sunday night dinners and my dinners with my friends and my family at other occasions. As well as putting my phone away, it’s become really important to my parents that I’m educated on what social media is “doing” to our generation and other generations exposed to this technology starting at such young ages, and that’s why the discussions we we had in class regarding the technological advances and the social media advances struck a chord with me.
My conversations with my parents and with my extended family regarding social media and it’s impact also ties into the discussions we had about the optimistic and pessimistic views of these changes. It goes along with how we discussed different generations having different perspectives on the newer generations and the technology, and why the different generations have these opposite views. Personally, I think it’s natural for there to be opposing views on the subject, it’s completely changed the lifestyles of different generations and more specifically, it’s the parents who are raising their kids in generations completely different from their own. It seems natural for them to feel negatively towards something that is so drastically different from what they are used to- especially since it does appear to be having some negative effects. If parents struggle to grasp their child’s perspectives because they are too busy checking Instagram and many other apps. All in all, the discussions in class have really caught my interest because they are so relevant to my life and tie in to so many conversations I have regarding the same subjects.