I finally had the chance to get back to this paper after taking two finals today (Thursday). Progression seems to be going well with 4 pages of good content, and still looking for some good supports for quotes taken out of Postman's book. My ultimate argument states that higher education institutions are Technopolies because of the way information is managed and organized. Specifically, college catalogues like Webreg demonstrate how a vast amount of information needs to be electronically managed. Though, the important part about this argument is that technological advancements attract us, giving us the option to either use technology to organize the flow of information, or keep traditional ways.
Another part of my essay I just started developing was how students have first inherited Technopoly characteristics, where students took those characteristics and made education institutions adapt to these characteristics as well. It's difficult to summarize, but it's still in the work, and should all make sense when the final product is done. I also plan on stating how dominant technology is over print material on a college campus. Because I'm in the library almost every day, I rarely see people constructing research papers using reference books, they're using the Internet, and that is why you see more computers occupied than reference books.
Overall, I'm satisfied with the way the paper is turning out, although, it still needs an intro, I constructed my body paragraphs first to see what arguments I could develop.
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