2. GROUP MEMBERS
Jashmina Pradhananga
Kriti Manandhar
Priya Singh
Rupesh Shah
Sristi Siddhi Bajracharya
Vineet Goel
3. CONTENTS
Students Shall Not Download. Yeah, Sure
−Kate Zernike
Don’t Touch That Dial
−Madeline Drexler
Conceptual Fruit
−Thaisa Frank
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
−Richard Brautigan
Humor
5. CONTENTS
About the author
Students’ point of view on downloading music
College plans on the issue
Views about downloading music
Music industry point of view
6. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Zernike
Correspondent for the New York Times
Previously a reporter for The Boston Globe
7. STUDENTS’ POINT OF VIEW ON
DOWNLOADING MUSIC
Illegal but not immoral
Taken internet for granted
Broadband encourage downloading
Blurred lines between right and wrong
Lot worse issues to focus on
Cool to have them
A dollar a song not worth it
Form of advertising
8. COLLEGE PLANS ON THE ISSUE:
Online tutorial to students
A new program to pay for the rights to music
Educate students on what is ok
9. VIEWS ABOUT DOWNLOADING MUSIC
Agree
(Percentages)
Disagree
(Percentages)
Not sure
(Percentages)
Downloading and then selling music is
piracy and should be prohibited;
downloading for personal use is an
innocent act and should not be
prohibited
75 14 11
If the price of CDs were a lot lower, there
would be a lot less downloading off
music of the internet
70 21 9
Musicians and the recording companies
should get the full financial benefit of
their work
64 17 19
Downloading music off the internet is no
different from buying a used CD or
recording music borrowed from a friend.
54 31 15
10. MUSIC INDUSTRY POINT OF VIEW
Steady rise in internet plagiarism from 1993 to 2003
Common analogy unable to sway students
College students biggest downloaders of internet
music
Music record industry mainly after sharers not
downloaders
13. CONTENTS
Author introduction
Significance of the title
Right or wrong???
General assumptions
Research on television
Violence on television
Daniel Anderson’s viewpoint
Advice to parents
Conclusion
14. AUTHOR INTRODUCTION
Madeline Drexler
Science and Medical journalist
Worked in many national publications in the United
States
Article appeared in the Boston Globe, a large daily
newspaper in 1991
15. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TITLE
Dial refers the control on a radio or television set
used for tuning
Simply means don’t touch the remote
16. RIGHT OR WRONG???
Television acts as a narcotic on children
Mesmerize them
Stunt their ability to think
Displace wholesome activities as book reading and
family discussion
17. GENERAL ASSUMPTIONS
Tend to blame TV
TV impairs a child’s ability to think and to interpret
the world
Displaces reading as a form of entertainment
Watching TV lowers IQ scores and hinders school
performance
18. RESEARCH ON TELEVISION
Dangerous to children
Hypnotizes them
Curbs intellectual development
Takes place of loftier pastimes
19. VIOLENCE ON TELEVISION In %
Programs with Violence 61
Violent Programs
Long term negative consequences of violence 16
Perpetrators as bad characters who go unpunished 45
Perpetrators as attractive characters 40
Violent Scenes
No remorse, criticisms, or penalty for violence 71
Blood and gore 14
Humor 42
Violent Interactions
No physical harm or pain to victim 51
Unrealistically low levels of harm 34
Lethal violence 54
20. DANIEL ANDERSON’S VIEWPOINT
A psychologist at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst
Important to distinguish television’s impact on
children from family and cultural influence
Overlook own roles in shaping children’s minds
Muse upon the meaning of what they see
Time spent on watching TV not related to reading
ability
21. CONTINUED…
Influence of family on children’s reading ability
No link between television exposure and lower IQ
People of lower IQ tend to be lifelong television
devotees
Appreciates high school courses on how to
“decode” TV
Social impact rather than cognitive impact
22. ADVICE TO PARENTS
Children are not just passively mesmerized by TV
Think of alternatives to television
Find why they watch too much TV
23. CONCLUSION
Source of enlightenment or a descent into
mindlessness
Depends on the choices of lucre-driven executives
26. CONTENT
Author introduction
Significance of the title
Characters of the story
Greta’s character
The story
Conclusion
27. AUTHOR INTRODUCTION
Thaisa Frank
Teaches at University of San Francisco
Practices psychotherapy
Extracted from story collection Sleeping in Velvet
(1997)
28. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TITLE
Fruit refers to the multimedia
Concept of virtual world
29. CHARACTERS IN THE STORY
Four characters
– Greta (Daughter)
– Father
– Mother
– Joel (Son)
30. GRETA’S CHARACTER
Girl of 16
Couldn’t perform activities as normally as others
Often repeated whatever she heard
Went to special school
31. THE STORY
Father wanted to share about a new site
Only Greta showed interest
Took her to show where she could make up streets
and bowls of fruit
Asked what she wanted
Created a street called “Greta’s Street”, a house
called “Greta’s House”
32. CONTINUED…
Placed bowls in every room
Peaches everywhere
Eleven windows covered with white curtains
Clicked bowls – word peaches appeared
Greta expected real peaches to appear
Father said - the words remind what they stand for
33. CONTINUED…
Didn’t cry but closed her eyes
Created a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, a
bedroom, a room for cat
But no bathroom – not a real house
Smiled the next time when the word peaches
appeared
The house could have anything
34. CONTINUED…
But Greta will never have a house of her own
Would live in a group house with people like her
Father hopes the house to be large and as Greta
wanted
35. CONCLUSION
Multimedia and internet helps to create a virtual
world
Helps people to get satisfaction to some extent
39. AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
Richard Brautigan (1933-1984)
Popular U.S. poet and novelist
Extracted from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine
Disaster (1968)
40. ABOUT THE POEM
Deals with computers
Written at the time when electronic technology was
in its early stages
Use of refrain
41. THE POEM
I like to think (and
the sooner the better)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky
42. CONTINUED…
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
43. CONTINUED…
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
44. CONCLUSION
Balance between technology and nature
Dream of a paradise free of labor
Machines can take place of man in future