Hello once again and welcome to my blog page! This week is blog number 10 and it focuses on our research paper for class. For our research project we will be exploring Zeitgeist and creating an argument based on one we find interesting. The term Zeitgeist is roughly translated to “Spirit of the Age” and refers to something that encompasses a point in time and represents it. For this blog post, I will be answering a few questions on my zeitgeist topic. These will help me lay out what exactly I will be researching and give me a good base to start from. However, my topic is subject to change, if I so choose to go another direction.
What is the zeitgeist topic I want to research? I believe that I am going to research the topic of social media and how it destroys our ability to communicate, interact with one another, and overall live. Now days everybody is consumed on their phones and on social media, nobody knows how to interact anymore and it essentially poisons our minds. I want to research into this as it is a huge part of our society today. What is the primary source I will use to begin my research? The primary source I will be using to begin and go through with my research will be a scholarly article published by Waseem Akram entitled A Study of Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Society. For me this provides a good basis for argument as it has both sides of the argument throughout the text, and provides a lot of good information from a reliable source. Who does the zeitgeist topic impact the most? This topic is mostly effecting the youth of America, but I am going to focus specifically on college students between the ages of 18 to 22. When did this zeitgeist emerge? This zeitgeist would have emerged from the start of social media, which would be roughly around the early 2000’s. The first official social media site was brought about in 1997, however not everyone had access to the internet and social sites. It was not until the early 2000’s that people really started using social media, and it has only gotten worse and worse and the time goes on. Where (consider community) does this zeitgeist impact the most? I would argue to say that the community or group of people this impacts the most is college students, especially those in their early years of college. This is the generation that uses social media the most and is most tied to the internet. If you took everyones phones away, these would be the people who it would impact the most. Why does this zeitgeist exist? This zeitgeist exists solely because of how tied people have become to the internet. The invention of the smart phone with capabilities to access the internet at the touch of a button is a large contributor to this. We are carrying a small computer around with us day and night and people have become so unhealthily attached to it. Having all of the access to the internet we have and having so many social media sites people would rather sit on their phones and scroll through facebook than actually communicate with each other or pay attention in classes. How does the zeitgeist topic make me feel (impact on your being)? For me personally it aggravates me. The fact we live in a society that everything is at our fingertips and we still have people who are lazy and sit around all day doing nothing but scrolling through social media makes me angry. For me, I try to stay off of my phone and social media as much as possible, because I know that in order to succeed in life you need to be driven, and the use of social media and constantly being tied to your phone hinders this. How does the zeitgeist topic make me think (impact on your knowing)? Following the last question, I look for this in people all of the time. I am constantly looking to see who is continuously on their phones, whether in class, on the road, or even while having a face to face conversation. I see it way too often and it proves the point that we as a society have a problem that needs to be addressed. How does the zeitgeist topic make me want to make change (impact on your doing)? I want to inspire people to get off of their phones and stop basing their lives off of social media. This zeitgeist is not something that I want to be a part of and I am ashamed that it really does describe our society. This topic invokes anger in me as I said before, and I want to do something to change it, because it is one of the downfalls of our society.
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Sabatino
11/4/2019 09:47:02 am
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Yuki Yamato
11/4/2019 05:45:07 pm
I think your research topic is very important to understand the modern society. I could be your reader because I am a college student although I am not the youth of America. Thus, I look forward to seeing how I change my act after reading your research project.
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Aylin
11/4/2019 07:23:10 pm
As you said, there are people who are having a face to face conversation and even in that moment they are with their phones. I think that's the worst, do you really think they are paying attention on what the other person is saying? I don't.
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Yuki Yamato
11/5/2019 06:27:06 am
I found one website might help your research project even though it is about teens (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/11/28/teens-social-media-appendix-a-detailed-tables/).
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Jess
11/7/2019 05:29:21 am
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/38038
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