Posted: November 17th, 2014

Be All That You Can Be” in your Language Awareness book.

Be All That You Can Be” in your Language Awareness book.  Answer the critical thinking questions

the pages 427-428-429-430-431-432-433 the questions from 1 to 6

Keep YOU!’ Thumbs i . week of ICi/Ialrch; lI‘lS1ldC, COIli1I’C:iCIiCC rooms piriniiiied with wirelless connec-
tions, an tie peop e on t e ais compete witi a screen in a most every
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i D/MD CARR presentation that the people in the audience had ostensibly come many
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I I I miles to see was merelv com -s ‘ ‘d’
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David Carr is a journalist and author who writes about media and culture ‘ I But even more remarkably, once the badge-decorated horde spilled 5
for the New Tor}: Times. He was born and raised in 1956 in Hopkins, l l into the halls or went to the hundreds of parties that mark the ritual,
ii Miimcsoii where he attended grade school and high school. Later, he i almost everyone walked or talked with one eve, or both, on a little screen.

ll’ attended the University ofWisconsin-River Falls and ‘thenthe University : were adiacent but essentially alone, texting and talking our way
ll? I‘ ofMinnesota, all the while working at odd jobs to pay for his education. In i thiough what should have been agreat chance to engage fIesh-and-blood
ii ll all as he piititin an interview foraseries about unconventional educations, human beings. The wait in line for panels, badges, or food became one

. Carr IS the former editor ‘ more chance to check in digitally instead of an opportunity to meet some-

the Atlantic Mimtlaly, and New Tori: Mryyazine before I moderated”a panel there called. “I’m So Productive, I Ilever Get
‘l moving to the Times. In addition to being one of the writers featured : Anything Done, which was ostensibly about how answering e-mail
l in Page One: Insiiie the New Tor}: Times, a documentary about how and i J and looking after various avatars on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr left
l why the Ngw Tori: Times wouldn’t relinquish its esteemed position in the . little time to do what we actually care about or get paid for. The biggest
i jouirnalistic world to Facebook and Twitter, Carr is the author ofthe best-‘ I reaction in the session by far came when Anthony De Rosa, aproduct
E i selling memoir The Niiilit ()ft/JL’ Gim. In the book he recounts the storvof . manager and programmer at Reuters and a big presence on Twitter and
ii if his Own cocdiiic addiction by interviewing the people he(§iss(l:ci;;<ted with i Tumtblr, said that mobile connectedness has eroded fundamental human
i . . . ~ – ‘ . ,° ‘ – ‘ mer, cour esies.
i during that period of his lifc. In his l€1€W of thc memoir, or y ‘um ,5
I his former editor at the Atlantic, referred to Carr’s “ioyous peculiarity. i When people are out and they re among other people they need to

I” ii In “Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You,” which xx as ]llSt put eveiything down, hc said‘. “It s fine when you rc at home or at
ll first published in the New Tor}: Times on April 15, 201 1, Carr argues that ‘ work when you re distracted by things, but we need to give that respect i
7 . . . ,- : . – .. . » ” to ea‘h oth*r ba‘k.”
A our digital age ‘ has madc it fashionablc to bc rudc. IE1. K d B 1 t dd d
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i a call or takes out a phone to make a call, what has. been your response J a iiioiiitiit, givui that “C wag ‘Sitting to the dlgltal revomtlom It has
did you feel? Unimportant? Understanding, especially if there might be an emer- amid some of the most digimiiy d _tf h_ bl t b d
7H I . . maei asiona eo eru e.
f gency? Angry or disgusted when you realized the call was trivial chit-chat. ave you .: devoted peoplc in the hemisphere.
changed the way you react to such situations over time? Perhgps solinzwllilere on the way tcla. the inlergerkclif the online and offline
2 wor , we a a stepped across a ine wit out owing it.
T You arc at a party and the person in front ofyou is not really listening A In an e-mail later, Mr. De Rosa wrote: “I’m fine with people stepping

to vou. Yes, she is murmuring occasional assent to your‘ rcmarks, oi nod aside to chcck something, butv hcn I m standing infront of someone and
ding at appropriate junctures but for the most part she is looking beyond in the middle of my conversation they whip out their phone, I ll just stop

i Voii, scanning in search of something or someonc morchconlicpelling. Om J t(l)( thcm and walk away, If they re going to be rudc, I ll be rude

Here’s the funny part. If shc is looking ox eryour s ou er at a l_ g Af g
i full of potentially more interesting people, she is ilI-mannered. If,.how- ter thc panel, onc of the youngei peoplc in the audience came 10
ii ever she is not looking over vour shoulder, but into a smartphone in her up to me to talk earnestly about the importance of actual connec-

i hand, shc is not only Wei] within modem social norms, but is also .1 mrcd, E tion, vi hich was nice, c.cept hc was casting sidclong glances ‘at his
L well_Put_tOgCtm_r person g iPhone while we talked. I’m not even sure he knew he was doing it.

l Add one more achievement to the digital revolution: It has made it It s not iust confercnces full of inforati w hcre this happcns. In places
i fashionable to be rudc. L -all over America (theaters, sports arenas, apartments), people gather
I thought about that a lot at South by Southwest Interactive, the ‘. In groups only to disperse into lone pursuits between themselves and
F annual campfire ofthe digitally interested held in Austin, Tex., the second their phones.

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