I stuck with my original topic and want to talk about
incivility. As time goes on why has incivility seem to have gotten worse and
how does that affect our bodies health wise and just is daily life routines? Is
there any solution to stop or control incivility? This is linked to popular
culture because especially at the time where we are at right now it seems that
incivility has become more popular and more people accept it. More people think
its ok to say whatever they feel without any consequences. What specific
reasons make some people think that incivility is ok? I would look at specific
examples from social media sites and examine why or what started the comment
that were uncivil. Did the people actually have a reason or did they just not
like what was being said. I would also look at special articles that address what
uncivility does to our body and how it affect the way we think and sleep. I have
found a couple articles that did some test and found what incivility actually
does to our health. On ways to stop incivility I would add my own opinion and
also look at certain people and certain sites and they ways they have tried to
stop uncivility or how they are trying to make incivility decrease. I would respond to my research question right
now by saying that over time people have lost manners and people think its ok.
Also it affects our bodies by the way that we think. When we are around
negative things constantly it affect our recovery, stress, and sleep. I still
need to look at factual things that can help my essay become stronger because
even though my research topic is true there are many people that will have
different opinions because it is easy to justify something else about
incivility or just a reason why the world hasn’t gotten worse.
I like the topic over all, I’d look at how manners aren’t being as stressed when tot to children. The internet of course will be the major factor in this. I think it’d be nice if you ended it or at some point mentions that doing fun things or watching enjoyable shows will make people politer and more civil in the same way bad things make people prone to incivility.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very interesting that incivility can affect our overall health. Before you mentioned it I would not that that they would have any relation. I think you are on to a good start; maybe you could focus on this more to make your topic a little narrower.
ReplyDeleteWhen you talk about how people have lost their manners over time, it's important to look at the larger context of human history. Are we really that much more incivil than slave owners or European colonists? It's not so much a trade-off (internet flame wars for civil rights) but a shift in focus. We still go to wars and have slave trades in this age, they are just not at the forefront of our culture. Perhaps the incivility we see so often now has always been there, just not so easily accessible.
ReplyDeleteI like that you talk about the health effects as well. I have never really considered the problems that stem from dealing with negative situations. I think that looking at why people do it and what it does to them and the receiving end is a great idea. Are you going to focus on specific sites or just all of them in general?
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that you have added health to it, which makes great sense. People can get a lot of health issues when dealing with a lot of stress, depression, bulling, etc. Also, with so much technology it is so much easier for some people to be rude to others when they aren't face to face. You can compare our manners to other cultures, or the mannerism of children now from children a few years ago. You can maybe look for surveys on how children mannerism has changed. Another point to cover would be whether incivility has always been around, but it is seen more now. You can also just compare it to just our parents generation to ours to make it more narrowed instead of going way back into slavery times.
ReplyDeleteWhy has incivility seemed to have gotten worse. (the easy part is answering this, the hard part is finding usable support/sources) The answer would be the mediums we have now. #1 everyone has access to mediums of quick interaction. #2 Everything we post is forever a part of the internet. #3 Since everything is instant we can just say what we want when we want, no time to cool down. Back then we had to write things out, if we knew how to write, and this gave us time to cool down and think of a more rational response.
ReplyDeleteI think its interesting to focus on how incivility affects peoples health. Incivility has gotten worse & it looks like that's not going to change anytime soon. Are there any sites that are worse about incivility than others?
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