Final Reflection

Final Reflection

            Blogging, for me, was a bit like the Internet itself. There was too much freedom and I had a hard time figuring out what I was going to do with each post. The guided prompts were a little easier for me, but I still couldn’t shake the feeling that there was no point beyond getting my points in class. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not downing bloggers at all. I think it’s amazing that any content producer can generate and produce media on a regular basis. I can never think of anything that I feel is important enough to put online and I suppose that’s why the concept of blogging is lost on me. Writing a blog for promotion, an institution or a cause, I can understand. My everyday thoughts, however, others might find pretty boring. Besides, I already put off enough of my writing; I would feel guilty spending my time blogging instead of working on my novel. But perhaps when I am far enough, I could find a blog group of writers to blog with about writing. Ahhh, technology.  

            This was my first semester in the MLS program. When first entering this class, I was a little concerned about how I was going to relate the material to my final project, especially because I wasn’t sure what it was yet. When I completed my Introductory Seminar, I had produced a Themed Plan of Study entitled Moral Decision Making Processes. I had constructed a plan to study the influences identity has on the morality we construct in order to make decisions. The information I gather, in disciplines like Religious Studies, Psychology and History, will influence a novel that will serve as my capstone project.

            In the future, I am interested to see how medical practitioners and psychology deal with technology’s interaction with identity. Technological advances in brain imaging provide evidence for chemical processes occurring while using the Internet. Proposals for Internet disorders, as discussed in our final class, as well as things like video game disorders have been gaining interest as years go on as well. Are these technological uses an evolution of human behavior? Use of the Internet has increased drastically over the last decade, so how can we tell when there is too much Internet use? I guess we’ll see what they come up with.