Post 2

This document is a picture. More precisely, it's a touched-up photograph from a webpage. It deals with the upside of new technologies because we can make out in the background the suit and the tie of a man who is stretching out his hand forward and there are a lot of symbols and appliances flying above it.

On the one hand, the picture is composed of a blue green planet which is in the centre and surrunded by the three most important electronic devices of new technologies : a computer, a tablet and a smartphone. On the other hand, we notice a connection diagram between the icons, the devices and the globe. In order to go further, the different kinds of symbols are, for instance, a graph, a cloud, a plane, human holograms but also some emblems like the euro, the dollar, that of facebook and so on.

The author clearly wants to show the advantages of new technologies, draws the attention to the many possibilities that the Internet and the new technology make available to us. It aims to make us sensitive to the opportunity to share our knowledge around the world, to take advantage of the others' experiences, to access the social network, the world's information, the news, the arts such as music, movies, painting, as well as medical treatments or on-line gaming and shopping.

I feel concerned by this idea of progress because my generation was born with it and is growing up with these new technologies. They are in our daily lives and indeed, I'm using it to do my homework. Therefore, I personally think that there are really plenty of benefits even though the downside exists too but we have to grasp this chance which enables us to be open to the world.

Thus, don't forget to enjoy it (enthusiastically but cautiously!)

Internets Anonymous

     On this cartoon, we can see two men in an office, one of them is sitting in front of a computer perhaps he's surfing the Net and he seems joyful. The second doesn't smile and is standing upright, waiting or listening to the other. We can note that they're wearing the same clothes ( a green T-shirt and a blue jean) as if it were the uniform of their company.

The picture can be understood as a criticism of the internet which might become an addiction or which incit to believe in an other world which doesn't exist and to forget real life with real people. The senselessness of this situation is that the man who is addicted to Internet, wants to kick his habits on internets anonymous and he does it on the Internet ! This cartoon aims to warn Internet users to be watchful about this kind of ridiculous circumstance.

     This cartoon is representative of today's world and of our society absolutely conditioned by the new technologies, in particular with all things that the Internet propose. More and more people use these possibilities but they don't know the risks.
I don't feel concerned by this drawing because I'm very glad to be able to go on a lot of websites, on on-line activities but I'm not addicted to them. I know that in our time, everybody needs to access it but there's a difference between to be completely dependent on the Internet and just to take benefit from it !
Of course, the problem of Internet addiction is really serious and major and this sort of picture is something interesting, because it shows the absurdity of the dependence thanks to irony and humour. The people could understand a little bit more than with a long and annoying speech.