What academic discipline (area of study) is the text related to?
The text is related to the gradual and continuous decrease in the number of minutes the people in Britain are interacting with each other. The text also focuses on the explanation of the biological impacts of the reduced social interactions amongst the people.
What is the main idea of the text?
The main idea of the text is to determine the situations of all the industrialized countries in terms of social interactions. It focuses on identifying the relation between the reduced social interaction, morbidity and mortality. This analysis may help the biologist to create public awareness regarding the issues.
What is the purpose of the text?
The purpose of the text is to enhance the knowledge of the reader regarding the social interaction and its impact on the biological health of the people. This helps in creating awareness about the issues that the population is facing may be because of their social habits which are becoming the slave of technology these days.
Describe what you understood about the topic/s from the text in detail in your own words.
It has been realised by the text that social interactions amongst the people are decreasing these days. Most of the people are living alone these days. Relationship and friendship are losing their importance in the life of the people. The major reason that has been found for the same is that the people are more into using their electronic gadgets and using the same for making connections rather than physically making conversations. Not only adults but the children are also tangled in this trap of the technology. They used to sit alone to watch TV and spent time with their other electronic gadgets such as laptop and phones rather than going out and playing with other children. Declination of togetherness amongst in the society results in high rate of morbidity and mortality. Thus is because when the people live alone they increase their intensity to adapt any kind of psychological diseases as well as commit suicide because of loneliness.
List any evidence the author uses and discuss its credibility. Is the information reliable and trustworthy? Is the information used valid, logical and relevant to the topic? Is the information accurate and up-to-date? Minimum of 100 words.
As far as the evidence mentioned in the text is considered, it has been analysed that an evidence of the social interaction and the relation with the electronic media is given. The graph is made by the data extracted from the series of time use and demographic studies. The graph is relevant to the study but it cannot be assured that it is very much realisable as the source is not mentioned here. Accuracy of the data is also not assured because the actual number of sample and the data collected has not been given.
If List ten technical words in the text, give their definitions, and provide an example of each in a sentence in your own words.
Definition: morbidity can be defined as the incidence rate of the diseases in the whole population.
Example: an example of morbidity can be the number of people having the cancer in the particular area.
Mortality Definition: mortality can be defined as the rate of death of the people in the population.
Example: the mortality rate of a particular area in UK is 5.8% (hypothetical)
Strokes Definition: Stroke can be defined as the immediate death of the brain cells of the individual because of lack of oxygen, blockage of any artery etc. There are can be many other medical reasons for the strokes.
Example: any person impaired from his vision because of rupturing of blood cells can be the condition that is considered as stroke.
Definition: it is the state in which the people in the crowd tuned in and use earphones or headphones and remain in their own isolated from the crowd surrounding them.
Example: example of this is people listening to the songs in the public transport stations or during travelling. This results in isolation of each and every member from each other as they do not make any interaction with each other.
Definition: tissues are group of cells in the body that are specialised to perform some specific work in the body
Example: vessels or blood veins are considered as tissues.
Blood pressure: Definition: blood pressure is the pressure that is experienced by the blood vessels of the body when the blood flows from it.
Example: The appropriate blood pressure of a healthy person is 120/80.
Mating years
Definition: mating year can be defined as the time period in which any of the living being mate with each other.
Example: most of the mammals have their mating years in winters.
Senile dementia
Definition: it is the state in which the old age people faces the issues of brain degeneration especially because of Alzheimer’s disease.
Example: the age in which the people are more susceptible to dementia is old age.
Social networking
Definition: social networking refers to the use of websites and different technological application in order to interact with one other.
Example: there are various platforms of social networking such as Facebook, instagram etc.
Non virtual communities Definition: non virtual communities are the communities that are formed in the physical world. It is the group of people that interacts with each other.
Example: the communities of old people for purpose
i) What is the purpose of the diagrams/graphics used in the text?
As far as the diagrams in the text are considered, it has been analysed that the author has included the diagrams for the sake of making the text more presentable.
- ii) Interpret the diagrams/graphics and write a description of the information presented by these diagrams/graphics. Minimum of 100 words.
As far as the first figure in the text is considered, it is the graph between the social interactions between the people and the electronic media. This is to identify the situation that how much the use of electronic media is affecting the social interactions between the people. The next diagram shows that children are not interacting with each there buy are busy with themselves only and the last diagram of a man with laptop suggest that even the old age people are not making any social interaction and thus facing the issue of dementia.
iii) How does the author refer to these diagrams/graphics in the text? Minimum of 50 words.
From the graph, the author wants to relate the concept of electronic media use with the social interactions made. From the next diagram, the author wants to describe the impact of social networking on the children and the last diagram is about the old age people who are suffering from high dementia because of the use of electronic media to interact with people rather than physical interaction in their surroundings.
- h) Put a photograph of your markings of the text here. The photograph must be clearly visible.
Please copy and paste a photo of your sheet/s of notes here. The photo must be clearly visible.
