The Impact of Technology on Interpersonal Communication: Challenges and Threats Faced by The Children
In her journalistic investigation “Face Time vs. Screen time: The Technological Impact on Communication” Chandra Johnson claims that nowadays kids overusing gadgets experience significant problems with interpersonal communication, such as failure in being empathic towards others, lack of management of their own emotions, difficulties in building lasting and sufficient relationships as well as the risk of misunderstanding with older generations.
BPTS 1: Kids who overuse gadgets experience significant problems with interpersonal communication.
SS: American psychologists Katie Davis and Howard Gardner coin a term for the defining contemporary teenagers as “The App Generation” (Davis & Gardner) and reveal psychological dependence of such children on technology.
PS: As Johnson continues to investigate the overuse of technologies generally by people, she accentuates a paradox lying in the fact that “people communicate more often with family and friends because of technology, but the quality of that communication may be weaker” (Johnson).
BPTS 2: Johnson also explains that with the overuse of technology kids often fail to be emphatic towards others.
SS: Davis and Gardner admit that children today are mostly guided by applications explaining them how one should feel about others and “how you should feel about yourselves” and, as a result, are not accustomed to independent considerations and decisions (Davis & Gardner).
PS: In her essay Johnson dwells on the idea that by “engaging with a screen than with other kids or adults can struggle to understand emotion”, because augmented interaction with the screen rather than with real life diminishes the role of affection and attachment (Johnson).
BPTS 3: Johnson leads the readers to the discovery that such children lack the management of their own emotions.
SS: Contemporary researchers point out that although gadgets have numerous advantages, the overuse of technology resulted to the fact that “all aspects of human agency, individuality, creativity have been reduced to an algorithmic formula” (Davis & Gardner) and, as a consequence, in the lack of emotional experience and discouraging brains “to be focused and imaginative” (Taylor).
PS: As revealed by Johnson, a number of researchers highlight that “technology is a poor substitute for the real” life and a range of emotions needed to deal with problems in reality (Johnson).
BPTS 4: Moreover, in the result of overusing emotions, children have difficulties in building lasting and sufficient relationships.
SS: Davis explains that nowadays teenagers are embedded in physical and technological comfort and are not practically used to hardships by expecting “that every aspect of life will be quick, efficient, streamlined, available immediately on demand” (Davis & Gardner).
PS: Johnson concludes that instead of establishing efficient relations with their peers, teens exhibit a “hyper connection” to their parents” (Johnson).
BPTS 5: Finally, these children are at risk of miscommunication with their parents.
PS: Johnson admits that communication in families is nowadays hardened by the fact that “children and …
