blog #9

Here are three of my sources that I think are going to be the most helpful for researching my topic.

1.) Hanson, Jarice. “How Cell Phones and Internet Change the Way we Live, Work and Play.” Wesport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishing, 2007.

This book talks about the cultural history of cell phones and internet, and what has disappeared and what has developed. It discusses the must haves and the don’t haves that we fit into our everyday lives. And brings up the technologies we use to make our lives easier. It posses the questions people still being stressed out although they have technologies to make everything better. The audience in this book is the whole population because everyone gets stressed and everyone uses technology.
Jarice Hanson is a well-known professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has a Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree and PhD all from Northwestern University. She has written other books and is co-author of about 15 other books. Currently, along with her UMass Amherst faculty position, she is the Verizon Chair in Telecommunications at the School of Communications and Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia. She has done an extensive amount of research with technology and society and all aspects of humans, cell phones and computers.
This book will be very helpful in my research paper because Hanson has a ton of great facts and ideas about my topic that will be useful to back up my topics. This book is also very interesting and current seeing as it was published in 2007.



2.) Negroponte, Nicholas. “Being Digital.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995.

This book talks about the age before there was any technology and how everything was made for everyone to use. Then once technologies started becoming popular the demand for them grew and people would get rid of the old and switch to something new. Then it talks about the currents days and networking to make connections among other users. It also touches on the fun aspects of technology. The purpose of this book is to show how many people think of and use technology differently and how the demand is growing more and more everyday for new items.
Nicholas Negroponte is a famous author of a well-known book called Being Digital, which has now been translated into 40 different languages. He was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory and also a Professor there along with many other colleges. He was also involved in the creation of a magazine called Wired.
Although this book has a lot of context that wouldn’t fit in my paper, I think I can manage to squeeze some little facts out of it. I think some of the points he makes would pose as interesting arguments.



3.) Moore, Wilbert E. “Technology and Social Change.” Canada: Burns and MacEachern Ltd., 1972

This book talks about how many humans are fascinated with machines and technologies. People have a love-hate relationship with technologies. One minute they love everything about it and then the next they don’t want to have anything to do with it. This book also talks about the meaning of technology and how it means something else to each person. It points out the question who is in charge by discussing the ideas of lifestyle and how it impacts our lives. The author, Wilbert Moore, was the 56th president of the American Social Association. The audience in this book is the population because everyone can relate to this text.
This book is a fundamental book that will be helpful to some key facts in my paper. Some topics he brings up could definitely be essential in helping me prove my points. This book has basic information that helps me remember to be simple.




While I was searching for sources at the library, I found myself wanting to change my research paper topic many times. These are some of the ideas that went through my head:
-do technologies make people less stressed? for this I would discuss how people sometimes get stressed out using the technologies that are suppose to make our lives easier.
-How has the internet changed work areas? (maybe discuss facebook addictions)
-How we have moved from wired to wireless: what is dissapearing because new technologies are coming up.
Now that I have all these new ideas in my head I must find the one that I will be able to find the most info on and the one that intrests me the most.