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POST 2 : LOOK UP/ LOOK DOWN

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"LOOK UP" VIDEO :  - What I understood is that the "look up" video is mostly about cell phones, and spending our time on the Net or social networks... Gary, the person who is talking, has more or less a negative vision of new technologies. For me, the video is divided in three parts : First, Online friends , then children who have been growing up with electronics devices and finally he speaks out about love and how finding our "soulmate"/ lover.  In the first part, he tells us, we can have plenty of friends on social medias but those "friends" have never seen us for real, listening to the sound of our voice or looking us right in the eyes. For him, this is only a illusion that we create, a self-interest... He even compares Internet as a world with informations sold by rich people who don't care about consequences... He says, we should be there for our friends and they will do the same for us, that we should (re)learn to coexist. F

POST 1 : INTERNET ANONYMOUS

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2. DESCRIPTION / MEANING / PURPOSE : a) The cartoon might take place at an office. We can see two people there, two men, one's using a desktop computer and the other is just staring at him next to the desk. One of them seems pretty enthusiastic about what he is doing while the ginger man looks most annoying or maybe bored by the situation. b) In my opinion, the cartoonist wants to show us a concept fashionable which represent clearly our century and our generation. Internet plays a huge role in our life and it's very commun to talk/chat with someone else, friends or family by using internet, social networks or whatever. His goal is to demonstrate that sometimes we communicate mostly by internet while we should probably do it in real life, and also that we live more in a "virtual" world, instead of living in the real world. 3. IMPACT/ VIEWPOINT / BRANCHING OUT : a) Honestly, I think it's kinda representative of today's world. That it's true that we