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Christina Chan

Apple under fire from Chinese environmental groups - Boston.com - 2 views

www.boston.com/...m_chinese_environmental_groups

Apple iPod iPad health safety regulations workers suicide publicity gadgets environmentalists foreign China

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  • Chinese environmental groups have been critical of Apple in the past, but the latest report underscores their growing outspokenness in a society where dissent is routinely suppressed by the authorities. Though dubbed environmentalists, their activism extends into other areas including worker rights.
  • Low wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
  • Apple has been trailed by bad publicity after several workers for one of its suppliers, contractor Foxconn Technology Group which makes iPhones and other gadgets, killed themselves in southern China last year
    • Christina Chan
      Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
       
      Whoa that is extremely awful. Bad publicity can really damage a person and that they would go to great lengths to actually killing themselves. I wonder how the rest of the workers would have reacted.
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  • oups have been critical of Apple in the past, but the latest report underscores their growing outspokenness in a society where dissent is routinely suppressed by the authorities. Though dubbed environmentalists, their activism extends into other areas including worker righ
  • Chinese environmental groups have been critical of Apple in the past, but the latest report underscores their growing outspokenness in a society where dissent is routinely suppressed by the authorities. Though dubbed environmentalists, their activism extends into other areas including worker rights.
  • Chinese environmental groups have been critical of Apple in the past, but the latest report underscores their growing outspokenness in a society where dissent is routinely suppressed by the authorities. Though dubbed environmentalists, their activism extends into other areas including worker rights.
    • Christina Chan
      Christina Chan on 20 Jan 11
       
      I agree that Chinese environmental groups have the right to express their anger by firing Apple. Apple was blinded to see the extremely dangerous conditions that are at risk. A question that came up while I read this why why wasn't Apple aware of this. Were they blinded by everything that was going on?
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  • Low wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
  • Low wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
  • w wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
  • wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
  • Low wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
  • Low wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
  • Low wages have drawn thousands of foreign companies to China, with many contracting production to Chinese companies or the local units of other foreign companies to boost profits. But activists say that makes it more of a challenge to track problems like dangerous working conditions and hold the company that contracted out the production liable.
    • Christina Chan
      Christina Chan on 05 Feb 11
       
      I can connect this to Feed because the "dangerous working conditions" remind me of how people like the police can hack into Titus, Violet's & his friend's feeds and how their unable to use them temporarily.
kaylyn kilmain

Is Internet Dependence Helping Us Evolve or Devolve? - Technorati Technology - 0 views

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shared by kaylyn kilmain on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • op, as well as pocket sized smartphones becoming the must have gadget for digital consumers, Google is becoming more and more prevalent in our everyday lives
    • kaylyn kilmain
      kaylyn kilmain on 09 Feb 11
       
      google is becoming a everyday need for most people
    • Nathan Nast
      Nathan Nast on 09 Feb 11
       
      Google is replacing everything from cookbooks to dictionaries. Soon everything will be on Google.
    • john peacen
      john peacen on 01 Mar 11
       
      true google has everything book, translate, news,
  • kaylyn kilmain on 28 Jan 11
     
    this article is talking about how having more technology can cause people to be more dependent on finding information on the internet. this results in loss of memory and only being able to remember how you found the information and not what it is.
Christina Chan

Pope Warns of Alienation Risk in Social Networks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...tech-us-pope-facebook.html

Pope warns alienation risk social networks dehumanize warnings

shared by Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • He said the possibilities of new media and social networks offered "a great opportunity," but warned of the risks of depersonalization, alienation, self-indulgence, and the dangers of having more virtual friends than real ones.
  • He urged users of social networks to ask themselves "Who is my 'neighbor' in this new world?" and avoid the danger of always being available online but being "less present to those whom we encounter in our everyday life."
  • He said social networking can help "dialogue, exchange, solidarity and the creation of positive relations" but he also offered a list of warnings.
  • Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11
     
    In this article by the New York Times the Pope warns the mass majority of the people that social networks can dehumanize people. People are becoming more addicted to the virtual world. Questions it raises are that: 1) Will technology & robots one day perhaps replace human beings? 2) Do you think Americans are spending too much time websurfing the internet instead of seeing friends & getting daily exercise?
  • Christina Chan on 04 Feb 11
     
    I can connect to Feed because in the book Titus is blinded by everything related to media & all these cool gadgets & the Pope is highlighting all the negative effects like depersonalization, alientation, self-indulgence, & the dangers of having more virtual friends than real ones."
Lany Miller

iCrazy: Is Technology Taking Over? - DivineCaroline - 0 views

www.divinecaroline.com/...-icrazy-technology-taking-over

technology icrazy

shared by Lany Miller on 17 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • I think our obsession with rather expensive convenience gadgets is bordering on ridiculous.
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 17 Feb 11
       
      Everyone's obsession with technology is going crazy, every year some new technology is coming out and it's supposedly better than the device before. In feed they got so advanced that they implanted a feed in everyone's brain and it tells the person whenever some new trend is hot. In the book and in reality people are becoming too obsessed with technology.
  • Obviously modern day iPods and their accompanying devices aren’t taking over our sprawling civilizations
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 17 Feb 11
       
      The new technology isn't taking over exactly, or yet, but it has the capability to do so. Technology is good for us, but sometimes it can get a little too hectic.
  • Lany Miller on 17 Feb 11
     
    Going iCrazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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