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Essay Activity 5: Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You, David Carr 496-500
A. Read David Carr’s essay. Write a paragraph that summarizes his essay. Add another
paragraph on a situation you were in that supports what he says in the essay. (25 pts)
B. Read the Head notes for this essay. Add any research that is current news not included in the
headnote. Also add a paragraph that provides new pieces of technology that the essay does not
mention but is widely used by people today-2019. (20 pts)
C. Vocabulary: Write a definition, a synonym, and the essay sentence containing the vocabulary
word.
1. Junctures (1)
9. Avatars (6)
2. Norms (2)
10. Tumultuous (8)
3. Wired (2)
11. Inforati (10)
4. Dais (4)
12. Faux Pas (14)
5. Horde (5)
13. Tamagotchi (17)
14. Ostensibly (6)
6. Adjacent (5)
15. Vanity (22)
7. Digitally Interested (4)
16. Luddite (27)
(30 pts)
8. Tether (23)
D. Answer all 5 questions in Thinking Critically About the Reading, p.500. (25 pts)
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ture for the New York Times. He was born and raised in 1956 in Hopkin
attended the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and then the Univer:
sity of Minnesota, all the while working at odd jobs to pay for his educa
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educations, it took him seven years to get through college. Carr was the
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tive weekly Washington City Paper, the Atlantic Monthly, and Netwerpen
Magazine before moving to the Times. In addition to being one
writers featured in Page One: Inside the New York Times, a documentary
about how and why the New York Times wouldn’t relinquish its esteemed
position in the journalistic world to Facebook and Twitter, Carr was the
author of the best-selling memoir The Night of the Gun. In the book he
recounts the story of his own cocaine addiction by interviewing the people
he associated with during that period of his life. In his review of the mem
oir, Corby Kummer, his former editor at the Atlantic, referred to Cart’s
“joyous peculiarity.” Carr died of pneumonia and complications of lung
cancer in February 2015, after collapsing in the newsroom.
In “Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You,” which was
first published in the New York Times on April 15, 2011, Carr argues that
our digital age “has made it fashionable to be rude.”
WRITING TO DISCOVER: When someone you are conversing with answers
a call or takes out a phone to make a call, what has been your response? How
did you feel? Unimportant? Understanding, especially if there might be an emer-
gency? Angry or disgusted when you realized the call was trivial chit-chat? Have you
changed the way you react to such situations over time?
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You are at a party and the person in front of you is not really listening
to you. Yes, she is murmuring occasional assent to your remarks, or nod-
ding at appropriate junctures, but for the most part she is looking beyond
you, scanning in search of something or someone more compelling,
Here’s the funny part: If she is looking over your shoulder at a room
full of potentially more interesting people, she is ill-mannered. If, how-
ever, she is not looking over your shoulder, but into a smartphone in her
hand, she is not only well within modern social norms, but is also a wired,
well-put-together person.
Add one more achievement to the digital revolution: It has made it
fashionable to be rude.
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I thought about that a lot at South by Southwest Interactive, the
k of March; inside, conference rooms brimmed with wireless connec
competed with a screen in almost every
wars, and the people on the dais
seut: laptops, or even more commonly, tablets. In that context, the live
esentation that the people in the audience had ostensibly come many
miles to see was merely companion media
into the halls or went to the hundreds of parties that mark the ritual,
But even more remarkably, once the badge-decorated horde spilled
almost everyone walked or talked with one eye, or both, on a little screen.
We were adjacent but essentially alone, texting and talking our way
through what should have been a great chance to engage flesh-and-blood
human beings. The wait in line for panels, badges, or food became one
more chance to check in digitally instead of an opportunity to meet some-
one you didn’t know.
I moderated a panel there called “I’m So Productive, I Never Get
Anything Done,” which was ostensibly about how answering e-mail
and looking after various avatars on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr left
little time to do what we actually care about or get paid for. The biggest
reaction in the session by far came when Anthony De Rosa, a product
manager and programmer at Reuters and a big presence on Twitter and
Tumblr, said that mobile connectedness has eroded fundamental human
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work when you’re distracted by things, but we need to give that respect to
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each other back.”
His words brought sudden and
tumultuous applause. It was sort of Add one more achievement
a moment, given that we were sitting to the digital revolution: It has
amid some of the most digitally made it fashionable to be rude.
devoted people in the hemisphere.
Perhaps somewhere on the way to the merger of the online and offline
world, we had all srepped across a line without knowing it.
In an e-mail later, Mr. De Rosa wrote: “I’m fine with people stepping
aside to check something, but when I’m standing in front of someone and
in the middle of my conversation they whip out their phone, I’ll just stop
talking to them and walk away. If they’re going to be rude, I’ll be rude
right back.”
After the panel, one of the younger people in the audience came
up to me to talk earnestly about the importance of actual connec-
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tion, which was nice, except he was casting sidelong glances at his
iPhone while we talked. I’m not even sure he knew he was doing it.
It’s not just conferences full of inforati where this happens. In places
all over America theaters, sports arenas, apartments), people gather
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Every meal out with friends or colleagues represents a negotiation
“Last year, for my friend’s birthday, my gift to her was to stay oil try
phone at her birthday dinner,” said Molly McAleer, who blogs and sends
Twitter messages under the name Molls. “How embarrassing,
If South by Southwest is, as its attendees claim, an indicator of what
is to come, we won’t be seeing a lot of one another even if we happen to
Weekly, said all it takes is for one person at a dinner to excuse himself into
be in the same room. Anthony Breznican, a reporter for Entertainment
his phone, and the race is on among everyone else.
“Instead of continuing with the conversation, we all take out our
body is typing away. A silence falls over the group and we all engage in a
phones and check them in carnest,” he said. “For a few minutes every
mass thumb-wrestling competition between man and little machine. Then
the moment passes, the BlackBerrys and iPhones are reholstered, and we
return to being humans again after a brief trance.”
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In the instance of screen etiquette, sharing is not always caring, and
sometimes, the bigger the screen, the larger the faux pas: On an cleva
tor in the Austin Convention Center, some crazed social media promoter
jammed his iPad under my nose and started demo-ing his hideously com
plicated social networking app that was going to change the world. I
leaped to safety as soon as the door opened.
Still, many are finished apologizing for what has become a very natu-
ral mix of online and offline pursuits. In an essay on TechCrunch entitled
“I Will Check My Phone at Dinner and You Will Deal With It,” MG
Siegler wrote, “Forgive me, but it’s Dinner 2.0.”
He added: “This is the way the world works now. We’re always con-
nected and always on call. And some of us prefer it that way.”
It scans as progress, but doesn’t always feel that way. There are a num-
ber of reasons why people at conferences and out in the world treat their
phones like a Tamagotchi, the digital pet invented in Japan that died if it
wasn’t constantly looked after and fed.
To begin with, phones glow. It is a very normal impulse to stare at
something in your hand that is emitting light.
Beyond the gadget itself, the screen offers a data stream of many
people, as opposed to the individual you happen to be near. Your e-mail,
Twitter, Facebook, and other online social groups all offer a data stream
of many individuals, and you can choose the most interesting one, unlike
the human rain delay you may be stuck with at a party. Then there is also
a specific kind of narcissism that the social Web engenders. By grooming
and updating your various avatars, you are making sure you remain at
the popular kid’s table. One of the more seductive data points in real-
time media is what people think of you. The metrics of followers and
een themselves and
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nalism whe attended South by Southwest this year. “I prefer to experience
said Roxanna Asgarian, a student at the CUNY Graduate School of Jour
the thing itself over the experience of telling people I’m doing the thing.”
Srill, for those of us who are afraid of missing something, having the
grid at our fingertips offers reassurance that we are in the right spot or
But all is not vanity. For anybody with children, a job, or a signifi-
beginning with our bosses, can reach us at any minute of any day. Every
cant other, the expectation these days is that certain special people, usually
once in a while something truly important tumbles into our in-box that
Mobile devices do indeed make us more mobile, but that tether is also
alcash, letting everyone know that they can get you at any second, most
often to tell you they are late, but on their way. (Another bit of bad man-
ners thar the always-on world helps facilitate, by the way.)
Ar the conference, I saw people who waited 90 minutes to get into
party
while, only to breach the door finally and resume staring into the same
screen and only occasionally glancing up. In that sense, the scenery
never really changes when you are riding with your digital wingman.
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(And it’s not just those children. I was hosting a discussion at another
conference with Martha Stewart, no slouch when it comes to manners,
and she kept us all waiting while she checked “one more thing” on her
Twitter.)
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offense because I switched out my smartphone before South by Southwest
and was on a new Droid that I’m pretty sure could guide the next mis-
sion to Mars, but it was clunky when it came to sending texts and Twitter
messages. Digital natives (read “young people”) will tell you that they can
casily toggle between online and offline. My colleague Brian Stelter can
almost pull it off, in part because he always seems to be creating media and
consuming it. And in Austin I saw Andy Carvin, NPR’s one-man signal
tower of North African revolution on Twitter, sitting in front of a screen
while the British band Yuck played a killer outdoor set at Stubb’s. He sent
Twitter messages about the show, and about Bahrain as well.
William Powers, the author of Hamlet’s BlackBerry, a book about
getting control of your digital life, appeared on a panel at South by South-
west and wrote that he came away thinking he had witnessed a gigantic
competition to see who can be more absent from the people and conversa-
tions happening right around them. Everyone in Austin was gazing into
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