technology and social networks are integrated in such a way in our everyday life that rules like "do not use cell phone" or "it is forbidden to film or photograph" may sound like shame or conservatism unnecessary. But I propose three scenarios to help you think better about our present habits.
Imagine that you are a professor of ethics of an undergraduate degree. On the first day of the semester curriculum, a student asks to record the audio of their classes to be able to study at home. As a precaution, and by the principles, you decide to deny the request and explains why. However, in a certain class perceives that the student is with the recorder switched on during the explanation.
Now, consider that you are the leader of a team, in a meeting, indicates to the few present that there will be significant changes in the strategy of the area, but points out that this is not yet confirmed. The next day, his superior calls him to a serious conversation and plays an audio with a snippet of his speech at the meeting of the previous day, in which, by the way, he was not present. Intrigued, you know that he received the audio via WhatsApp.
lastly, put yourself in the place of a speaker that presents to an audience of more than a hundred people. You prepare your message very carefully so that there are no misunderstandings and uses different types of arguments to sustain your point of view. During the lecture, you can see people taking photos of their slides, recording excerpts, and writing incessantly on the smartphone. Minutes after you finish your presentation, you access the social networks and there are already numerous posts about what was spoken of, with various distortions of meaning and interpretation.
Such scenarios are real-life examples of how technology and social media can be a trap for both the coexistence of healthy and ethical society as to the way to listen to and understand the information to which we have contact on a routine basis.
In the case of a teacher and of a leader, there is a lack of ethics to record the speech of someone without their consent, with impacts more or less direct to the image of one who communicates. In the case of the speaker, the focus of the audience is more like to quickly share what is happening at that very moment and publish sentences out of the context, that, first, understand the message and, after, to generate impact on social networks.
The total insertion of technology into our daily life imposes upon us great challenges related to ethics and coexistence. The aim is not to create rules or prohibitions to deal with them, but to propose reflections to be more aware of and responsible for our acts and that we can change the ways of social interaction in a daily hiperconectado.
Worth the warning made by Tom Chattfield, author of the book "How to live in the digital age". To him, we are so thirsty to be connected which we live stuck in the present and the yearning to share "what we’re doing," without at least having time to filter what has been said by someone or to assess the impact of replicating a piece of information, written or audio. This saturation of the present is intensely accompanied by stress, anxiety and loss of control. Our daily effort to deal with this is to begin to recognize that, without the ability to say yes or no to the use of technology, we run the risk of transforming wonders into traps.
it Is time to rethink our practices in a world so integrated with technology. You are willing to do so, for their own sake and their interpersonal relationships?
Vivian River Stella – Phd in Linguistics from Unicamp, post-doctorate at PUC-SP and a member-director of the VRS Courses, Lectures and Coaching (www.vrscursos.com.br), specializing in communication, leadership and entrepreneurship.
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