Please help me with me final exam paper

[Xertia-trollbane]

Hello! I am a student at Stockholm University and a fellow gamer who is, at this moment, writing my final exam paper in the subject Geography. I am now pleading for your participation in this small survey.

As we all know, due to Covid-19, we are currently living in a world bound to rules which regulate our social interaction with other people. Covid-19 threatens our daily living, altering our way of movement, shattering relationships, and so on… the negative effects of covid-19 can be made endless.

The goal of my paper is to explore how digital spaces (spaces which are accessed through the internet and shared amongst people all over the world) e.g. games like World of Warcraft. Furthermore, I will also explore how tools in information and communication technology (ICT) such as TeamSpeak, Skype, Ventrilo, Discord, and so on are beneficial when it comes to maintaining social interactions with other people. I am to analyse the answers provided by you and discuss them in a broader perspective with regards to the exclusion and digital divide of (mainly) elderly people.
Please answer the questions provided below:

1. Do you feel like you are able to maintain a somewhat healthy social balance thanks to spending time online integrating with people in a virtual world?
2. Does socializing online ease your mind in this time of crisis?
3. Do you struggle to complete important tasks from home such as work or study during this pandemic?
4. Do you believe that elderly people are uninterested or lack the skillset to participate in online activities such as gaming or using software programs to communicate?
5. Have you heard about the term Digital Divide Before?

Thanks in advance for your participation!

[Fussi-frostmane]

1. This question can lead to very different directions since technology is actually ruining the “real” social life and skills; and it makes us less human, but more robotic each passing year. For times like this where we struggle with a pandemic; and being limited in what ways we can live our lives, technology or the yield of virtual world is naturally useful. But what people don’t see is that we were already going in that direction. Perhaps more than half of the world would rather just stick their face on their phones scrolling, commenting, liking, texting, gaming etc instead of actually meeting up and have real life activities even before Corona virus came into place.

2. Yes it does.

3. As a filmmaker or any kind of artist it’s a big struggle. However, in terms of academic classes, online classes made everything much easier just as we can go back to the Zoom lecture record and re-watch everything.

4. Our elderly in this particular generation were the people who spent their youth putting real effort to achieve anything in life, like writing letters to their loved ones and waiting days/weeks for a response. They lived their lives way more physical and in long term such as for dealing with wars, finding a job/house, making/keeping friends/spouses etc, heck even finding a specific address. It’s not surprising that they find the current generation trends non-sensical. We’re even lazy to make a phone call now, or to respond a text. Our lifeless way of livings can’t even be compared with the old school people who lived with very minimal technology. It would only be fair to expect more from the elderly to be techie 50 years from now

Of course, some elderlies adapt because if they don’t, they are outcast; they’d fall behind the society, and be the bummer grandparent. The life they were used to has drastically changed. They used to smile and have chat with each other even in elevators; whereas now, you’d be a weirdo if you’d just look at people trying to communicate while they are all magnetized by their phones. In other words, it’s a matter of “I acknowledge you” mentality versus “I don’t want you to think I need you or that I care” mentality.

Learning capability unfortunately has an age curve. You can never learn things as much and as effectively at age 60, for instance. After age 25, you’re not growing anymore, instead you’re getting older. Although, everyone has different mental and body strengths mainly due to what they go through in their lives, so not every elderly will be the same. I wouldn’t relate this to skillset but mainly to overall experience, habits and mindset.

5. No, I haven’t.

Wasn’t sure if you needed more like a survey type of participation like a simple yes or no, but I tried to restrain myself not to write more than I already did I’m just kiiiiind of sensitive to this subject.

[Áranaría-the-shatar (Áranaría)]

1. Interesting question but also for me a tricky one to answer since most of my life I have been what some would call a lone wolf by my nature. Not all people are social butterflies if you met me and my sister you would see she’s the social one with a big circle of friends and I am more the introvert and the one who has obscure interests and past times. I think the pandemic has done a lot to highlight the weaknesses and the issues in society how we treat strangers and how we behave when a situation is beyond our control. The old normal we had will never come back even if vaccines are readily abundant and work we will not know for some time if they have been effecctive until hard data backs them up as working and that could take up another 2 years or more to know. My own balance has been okay I cope well on my own the only downside is not being able to see my parents and wider family but I also know it is really critical to be not doing so to keep them all safe.

2. No because it’s got the potential to be carried as in Covid-19 by people who do not suffer any outward symptoms and I do not like to be around people even those I know because I could catch it and this thing is sadly killing people it is no laughing matter and hence why we have been told to keep social activities down those who flout the rules or completely disregard them put others at serious risk it’s not worth it until the world is in a place it can safely some semblance of normal is possible being in or socializing for me is the last thing I want to do. Too much risk and when your talking about your life it’s just not worth it.

3. No I keep a cool head I avoid watching the news and I entertain myself and also keep my mind on other things I also am a key worker so it means I have to go to work anyway in order to do it. I work in food retail and yes I do have moments where I wonder about why it is some other members of the public have such a poor attitude towards us as staff.

4. No sorry got a father of 72 and a mother of 68 who both love the technology they may not be gamers but they are on the internet and active and use it to keep themselves sane in what can be really frustrating times because a lot of what they normally do is off-limits at the moment they use the internet to keep in touch with friends and also to talk to others so they are doing okay. I think a lot of people the same age as them and older are more tech-savvy than we give them credit and I have had numerous conversations about the internet and or computers and the issues that have come about in this strange situation we are all finding ourselves in. By all means, some are not good with technology but the generalization that they are all bad with it does not ring true from my own personal experience.

5 Yes I have it’s an unfortunate thing that is like a lot of issues in society those who have something that is deemed essential to day to day life know that others do not have it internet access for kids who were off school in the UK was a huge issue as some kids parents had no internet access as they could not afford it given that other things are deemed essential to exist as a person it is still astounding to me that internet access is still seen as a privilege and not a right that needs to change since we are in the information age now and lack of access to the internet sadly makes those who are in that place looked down upon by those who have it.

[Xertia-trollbane]

Thanks a lot!

[Xertia-trollbane]

Thanks a lot !