Posted: March 12th, 2013

Technopoly

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Critiique Essay -The critique essay asks you to look at a source with a critical eye and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. It will incorporate source material summary into its discussion but will also evaluate that source material.  The critique essay asks you to look at a source with a critical eye and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. It will incorporate source material summary into its discussion but will also evaluate that source material.

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Please write your critique essay on the following:

Thesis:
As much as technology has its negatives, a person who does not embrace it is like an island where no one can survive.

Technopoly. Develop a critique of an idea that is presented by Postman in these chapters, using at least two other credible sources to help provide support for your ideas. 

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1.    In chapter 1, Postman argues that technology gives and takes away.  “[T]he benefits and deficits of a new technology are not distributed equally.  There are, as it were, winners and losers” (p. 9).  With regard to computers, he argues that computers have given some members of society benefits but have also resulted in deficits for other members of society. 

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What are the strengths and weaknesses of his analysis on these points?  Some issues you might consider for this topic include whether Postman has defined his terms clearly, has considered the big picture with regard to computers, has “used and interpreted information fairly” (Behrens & Rosen, p. 68), and has argued his points logically.  Even for people in society whose jobs have been eliminated by computers, have they overall been negatively affected by computers?  Take, for example, factory workers.  Have their lives been affected negatively by computer technology? Or positively?  Or both?  How about other workers in society?  Critique Postman on this claim. Please use at least two credible sources other than Postman to help support your critique.