Current Events

Current Events

This article talks about kids learning the uses of technology at young and younger ages. Also, the parents of these children do not condemn the use of technology, especially the computer, but rather encourage it and helps their children to know the good and bad about it. The Iconoculture dubs this generation of kids, Generation We, which are products of generation Xers who were born roughly between 1961 and 1981. These kids know the technology at an earlier age and therefore have a much wider view of the world around them. The parents are not afraid of the technology and probably have jobs that use technology a lot, so their kids are able to naturally adept to it. The article also shows that kids of this new generation rarely watches television and are more into computers and gaming systems.

This article talks about a subsitute teacher in Norwich, Conn. Facing up to 40 years in prison because of pornographic images that popped up on her classroom computer in 2004. Several students at Kelly Middle School in Norwich saw the images appear. The teacher, Julie Amero, was convicted by a jury earlier this month on four counts of risk of injury to a minor. The prosecution insists that Amero actively visited the sexually explicit Web sites. Others, argue that Amero's conviction and the penalty she faces are a travesty of justice. Her lawyer, and several computer security experts, say that Amero was the victim of spyware and Web sites that were programmed to display an incessant stream of pop-ups, including explicit ones. I really do not know what is going on with this government if they sentence this teacher to any prison time. There are people out there doing worse.

This article talks about Apple selling their 100th million iPod since they started to sell them back in November of 2001. To me, that seems so long ago because that iPod was very bulky compared to the slim ones they have today. I also started to think how I ever lived without the iPod. I remember taking my cd player everywhere I went and how big and bulky those were. I even remember when Sony came out with their mini-disc player and that weird cartoonish character they had in their commercials. Apple has definitely changed the music business for both the good and bad with the iPod. They have also changed the way we listen to music. They have changed the mp3 player business for now everyone is trying to become as popular as the iPod.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, there is a brewing story of Journalist using web blogs to get information from sources who are closest to the scene; the people that were at the scene. From these web and video blogs, journalists are posting on people WebPages to ask them questions about the incident. In the V. Tech shootings, journalist from NPR and MTV news posted on one of the web blogs of the boyfriend whose girlfriend got shot in the hand by the gunman and wanted to get a story on her from the hospital. Even with posting of camera phones pictures and videos on blogs have helped journalist get stories out quicker and from the best sources.