Alienation and the internet.ppt

1、1. Do you go on line every day ? What do you usually do on line? 2. Are you a net worm ? How many hours do you stay on line every day ?,Alienation And The Internet,Will Baker(1935-2005), an American writer whose social and environmental enthusiasm led him to write on global themes, was an enviornmen

2、talist who understood the dilemma in trying to preserve the wilderness where humans live. An inspiring UC Davis English teacher, Baker wrote popular science fiction novels as well as essays.,If the Internet allows for the free exchange of ideas, it helps to unify us. Then how does it alienate us whi

3、le uniting us? How does it fragment society while globalizing ideas? This is the issue that the author tackles in the text.,You may say: Im excited at the huge advantages the Internet could bring to us. At the same time, Im also concerned with the disadvantages attached to it.,What are the advantage

4、s and disadvantages of on line ?,Advantages,It gives us easy access to a lot of information we need; It makes communications faster and more effective without the hindrance of physical distance; It makes our life more colorful with various kinds of games; It can help us forget our miseries at least

5、temporarily.,Disadvantages, It can make us feel addicted to it and take a lot our time with which we can do something more important. The virtual world it offers can make us forget who we really are and develop an unrealistic attitude towards life We can be deceived by someone in the cyberspace with

6、 ill intentions Communications on the Internet is far from being safe because of the viruses and occasional breakdown of the computer system.,Questions: How can we make use of the Internet? Achieving balance in our lives.,Conclusion: the author reiterates his point that only when we make a moderate

7、use of the Internet can we fully realize its potential without having our sense of reality skewed.,Information Superhighway: a term which was popularized in the early 1990s by the Clinton-Gore administration to describe ways of expanding the internet beyond its then-current state. It is often associ

8、ated with the US politician and former Vice-President of the United State, Al Gore, though the exact origins of the term are unknown.,Utopia,Utopia is the title of a book written by Sir Thomas More, published in Latin in 1516. the work pictures an ideal state where all is ordered for the best for hu

9、manity as a whole and where the evils of society , such as poverty and misery, have been eliminated. The popularity of the book has given the generic name Utopia to all concepts of ideal states. The description of a utopia enables an author not only to set down criticisms of evils in the contemporar

10、y social scene but also to outline vast and revolutionary reforms without the necessity of describing how they will be effected. Thus, the influence of utopia writings has generally been inspirational rather than practical.,It seems that we are a society that values immediate gratification above all else, and what better place to achieve it than in cyberspace, where the cyber-world is your cyber oyster. Paraphrase: In the society ,people believe that immediate satisfaction is The most important thing , and the cyberspace is the best world for us to achieve the p