PurComm 3

UNIT 3
THE TIE-BACK
1. What technology do you often use as part of your everyday lifestyle?
 I usually use smartphones as part of my daily life, when I wake up it is the first
thing I always looked for. I used it for my alarm, for attending online classes,
ordering food, communicating with my friends, classmates, and family.
2. Do you agree that people of today‘s generation would likely to have an instant of
everything?
 No, our generation is formed by social, political, and the economic events. Today,
teens are the first generation whose lives are saturated from mobile technology
and social media. Often, millennials may be perceived in a negative manner and
can be described as being lazy, and mostly depend on the use of technology. But,
on the other hand, we, the millennials are very focused on developing and to
prosper our own learning new work skills. We have an attitude of being able to do
and do not worry too much about failure. In general, the millennials, more than
any other generation in the workforce, can quickly acquire new technologies and
master it. We can catch new corporate tools very faster than some seniors
workers, who is a real advantage at a fast pace environment with continuous
technological change. When communicating, we prefer social networks and text
messages like instant, fast form of communication. More formal communications
such as the telephone and face-to-face interactions are less in favor of our
generation.
3. How important the access to information nowadays, especially in this time of pandemic?
 During a health crisis like this, accurate information in a timely manner can help
save lives, which means that access to information can be a matter of life or death.
Access to information also enables citizens to monitor responses to the crisis,
such as confinement rules, regulations of travel and schooling, virus testing,
medical supplies and economic assistance or stimulus measures. People around
the world have struggled to gain access to accurate information to protect
themselves and their communities from the virus in the languages and formats
they could understand; government information did not adequately reach the
already vulnerable groups; and the dissemination of wrong information has
become their own pandemic, often encouraging dangerous behavior. The Internet
allows us to receive and share vital information about the pandemic and the
measures implemented to address it. It helps us understand and examine the
actions of our governments. And with about 20% of the world's population social
distance or living in quarantine conditions, technology helps us to work, buy and
communicate. Several day-to-day activities have moved online, from health
services to home-based education programs.
THE TIE-BACK
1. How do social media platforms affect your life?
 Social media platform plays an important role in my life as a teenager, I often use
it in my daily life. Most of my learnings, life lessons, information, etc are from
social media. At first, the impact of social media on myself is so bad. I met a lot
of people whose very different from me. A lot of criticisms will arise, and my
mental health has been affected so much. Why? Is it because by that time I don't
know how to use social media effectively. I just post whatever I want, read every
article posted online, communicate with other people without thinking if it is good
or not. But as the years passed, I've become so wise using social media platforms.
I've limited myself from posting anything, I find the beauty in it, I also share
motivational quotes to some other people, participate in an internet community
wherein we promote mental health awareness, help my friends with their small
business online, and find a companion (Twitter) where I can tell freely what
happens in my day.
2. What social media platform do you always use and how does it perform in your everyday
life?
 Facebook app is what I usually use from all those social media platforms, due to
this is where I monitor all our subjects whether there's an announcement or none.
Few of my professors posted our learning materials, meeting links, activities,
exercises, quizzes, and networks on Facebook pages. This is also where I watched
several videos that can make me entertain or happy. Whenever I want to look for
some information or be updated in my surrounding this is where I look up to. I
also used this Facebook app to order food within our community, help and
promote my friend's small businesses and share some motivational quotes that can
help other people boost their confidence and be happy.
3. What is meme according to the lesson?

 Memes are shared nuggets of cultural currency. These quick-edited pictures of
showing both relevant and funny pictures had become an important way and
mechanism to create meanings that predates the internet. Technically speaking
memes or memetic are not really new or the unique invention of today‘s social
media. The term ―meme was first adopted from a biologist named, Richard
Semon, and through his research in theorizing biologically inheritable memory, he
used the word meme to explain his study about it, although, we are not studying
biology or any genes.
CHECKPOINT
Activity. Share one of your experiences when you need technology the most in a particular
situation. Write your own story on the sheet given below

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