{"id":240,"date":"2024-05-05T23:48:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T06:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/?p=240"},"modified":"2024-05-06T02:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T09:32:46","slug":"unit-3-reading-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/unit-3-reading-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 3 Reading Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the unit 3 readings it struck me just how much the internet has changed over the years and what implication that has for people navigating today\u2019s digital landscape. When I was about seventeen, I remember going over to my friend\u2019s house to see this new concept on his computer called \u2018the internet\u2019. It was text based and while it really opened my mind to what was technologically possible, it was predominantly in the realm of written information and therefore truly lacked any type of user interaction. All these years later the internet has become unrecognizable. It is now so much more than finding information; it is communities, interactions and connections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"989\" data-src=\"http:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/05\/Fun-Fact-1024x989.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/05\/Fun-Fact-1024x989.png 1024w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/05\/Fun-Fact-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/05\/Fun-Fact-768x742.png 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/283\/2024\/05\/Fun-Fact.png 1075w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/989;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The internet has grown and changed in many magnificent ways and also created unintended consequences for humanity. We use the internet for virtually every aspect of our lives and there is growing evidence that this fact increasingly comes at a human cost. A paper called the \u2018Psychological Effects of the Internet Use\u2019 mentions on this topic that \u201cthe ever-increasing use of computers has a negative impact on the health of users affecting various systems and causing physical and mental problems.\u201d (Diomidous M, 2016) I suspect that the internet in the coming years will be considered in a different light and navigated with far more savvy, careful consideration and mindfulness then may have been needed in years past. I think this idea is reflected in the Participatory Open video (Stewart, Phipps, &amp; Cormier, 2019) where it was evident (even a few years ago) that people have been demonstrating a growing mindset towards online caution and communal awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diomidous M, Chardalias K, Magita A, Koutonias P, Panagiotopoulou P, Mantas J. Social and Psychological Effects of the Internet Use. Acta Inform Med. 2016 Feb;24(1):66-8. doi: 10.5455\/aim.2016.24.66-68. Epub 2016 Feb 2. PMID: 27041814; PMCID: PMC4789623. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4789623\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4789623\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart, B., Phipps, L., &amp; Cormier, D. (2019). The Participatory open: Can we build a Pro-Social, Pro-Societal web? [Video]. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1D4tg1FnE_s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the unit 3 readings it struck me just how much the internet has changed over the years and what implication that has for people&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/unit-3-reading-reflections\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unit 3 Reading Reflections<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru298\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}