Watching the presentations, I realized (like most of my other blog posts) the topics would not have been relevant ten or twenty years ago. The multimedia project truly was taking advantage of kairtic situations. Lets look at the Adderall or illegal downloading projects.
Adderall is a relatively newly developed prescription drug intended to help those who have ADHD and ADD. It is now being abused in high schools and colleges for students who need to cram for test or just have focus problems. In the past, students would have crammed the old-fashion way…and by this I mean becoming hermits at the local coffee shops. Now students would rather drink coffee when it is fashionable instead of just for the caffeine and instead pop some pills and pull and all-nighter.
I really enjoyed the illegal downloading project. I honestly did not know that if you burnt a CD and gave it to your friend that was considered “stolen” music. Why this is questionable to me is my parents have so many CDs that I downloaded into my library, now is that considered stealing too because I was not the original purchaser? Anyway, why this takes advantage of a kairotic moment is back to the whole advances of technology debate. Yes, the conveniences that technology has provided us with are so so nice, but when you get into arguments like this, it kind of makes you wonder, would it be easier to be back in a day when it wasn’t just a click away.
Not only do the project topics make me think about the past, but it definitely makes me think about the future. These issues are all kairotic, but they may not be in the future. I wonder what the future generations will think about our current issues.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree, the topics were very relavent to our generation and all college students in general so they were very easy to pay attention to
ReplyDeleteYou make an interesting point that this is all stuff relevant to our generation, but not really to previous ones. Gabby also makes a good point that it does make me wonder what the hot issues will be 10 - 20 years down the road. It really doesn't seem like that long from now, but our projects prove that 10 - 20 years really does make a difference in what is considered controversial or not.
ReplyDeleteWow. I didn't even think of it that way. You definitely made a good point here. Even going as far back as when a lot of our parents were in college, they would never have had to digitally acquire videos or learn software. It's amazing how different life is from generation to generation. I wonder what types of issues and projects the next generation will be dealing with.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really going point about using your parents' music, I never thought about it like that. I agree with Gabbo and Kaylee- what will multimedia projects be like 20 years down the road? Probably in 3D or something. I was very impressed with all of our projects though.
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