While the new media has been very useful impactful in our day and age, we constantly face a threat to our privacy. While social media platforms with its huge amounts of users are always growing, cybersecurity has certainly been lacking a real protection. Just during the past couple of years, we've had major news about platforms such as Google and Facebook wrongly using its users' saved data including personal information, preferences, pictures, and even location. What's even more worse is when we know that they sell our information for billions of dollars and the companies that invest heavily into obtaining people's data make their business decisions and aim at certain audiences based on the obtained information. Still to this day, we hear news about data breaching which puts us a society in a great jeopardy. It's not at all comfortable to know that your information and even info such as what kind of things you go shopping for are all out there in the open. It'
Very interesting research proposal. Two ideas immediately shot to my mind when I read this. You can focus your paper on 2 different things. Firstly, you might want to focus on the advantages and disadvantages of electronic literature as it relates to education. Or you can research how electronic literature is capturing the market of traditional literature as it relates to business.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing that pops to my mind when reading about your topic is the reality of technology taking over more and more of our lives everyday. I'll have to admit I'm not a fan of eBooks. Occasionally I'm forced to buy certain literature in electronic form due to it either being more affordable then a hard copy or the ease of access. But if I have the opportunity, I always go for a hard copy. It seems that technology, referring to phones/tablets, seem to be wiping away or taking over a lot of what we use little by little. Many of us miss our local Barnes and Nobles which have shut down due to electronic literature. Where do you stand on these outcomes of electronic literature? Do you still prefer hardcopies? Do you print out a hard copy of certain sections out of a textbook when you really need to study it thoroughly? Will authors continue to write literature if they are not making enough money due to not selling enough since electronic literature is replicated and released to the open market so easily. just some thoughts. I remember when Harry potter first came out and the shelves cleared the same day. You couldn't get a new release without it being on preorder. Especially if you wanted a hardcover. I still have my collection I look back to time and time over. It's a shame the excitement about literature and hardcopies does not exist anymore.
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