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One type of motivation that both the reading and video talked about was overcoming challenges. I think this can be applied to video games and the real world. Often when we can do something we will try over and over to get better and eventually accomplish what we were trying to do. Or we can try different ways to reach the same goal. In video games you always want to get to the next level or get that reward, so you have work on your strategies, or skills to over come the challenge you're facing, like practicing or trying different ways to win. Another type of motivation talked about was emotional motivation. Which is that people can be motivated to move away or towards a certain emotion for satisfaction. Video games often relive stress, and make people focus on other things rather than what is going on in their life that may be painful for them. In the reading and in the video it was said that video games can make people happier. That's because of the emotional motivation pullin...

She trying to explain that people feel more powerful or more cocky when they are on social media. People often feel like they can't get in any trouble, or be held responsible for their actions when they say something online. Now with that being said, we like to criticize others and create panics, within something that isn't that serious. If you look at the reading that mentions people talking about kids and video games and how bad they are. Thats an example of what she's talking about. We create fear without there being a reason for it.

Out of the 4 themes, I chose home & social life. I chose that one because I think there is lot of recurring problems that are seen all over the world. While they particularly focus on South Korea, the US has the same issues with technology. Kids depend on phones like they're a lifeline. In South Korea they even talked about people dying because they've spent so much time on the computer, without eating or drinking for days! Digital Nation showed a family where the child spent all of his free time on the computer. And his mom couldn't get him to stop, she started noticing that he wouldn't even hold conversations with her anymore. They would sit down for dinner, not say word and he would get right back up and go back to the computer. The mom expressed how worried she was about losing her son completely. It gets to a point where being on a phone or computer for that long is just ridiculous. So South Korea created a camp, it lasts about 2 weeks and its technology free. ...

Sherry Turkle made a lot of really good points when she talked about how much the whole world is consumed within technology. One of the points she made is that we have the option to retouch/ edit our face, body, and voice. We have the option to change our appearance and people like doing that. if you look at the app Snapchat, they have a bunch of filters that change your voice and face. It helps people hide things that they might be insecure about. Another thing she mentioned was that phones are something that will listen when others won't. A lot of times when people have nothing to do or no one to talk to, they sit on their phones and scroll thorough social media. It provides a comfort almost, and not a good one at that. The more we sit and play on our phones the less interactive we are with the actual world. We don't try talk to people or try to make new friends when we're out in public, we sit on our phones. It's ruining our communication skills. The last thing I...