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Article Evaluation
Theories of technology: Theories of technology

It's a very interesting topic when it comes to the impacts technology has on society and its culture. Whether it's good or bad.

Lead
The Lead of Theories of technology tells readers how technology helps shape the world we have today, but also shows how it impacts society and culture. The articles Lead does not briefly describe it's major sections but instead talks about how theories of technology reject two previous views such as linear model of technological innovation and technological determinism. The Lead does include information on how the two views linear and determinism can be challenged. The Lead overall feels a little overly detailed. As they add more information on how to challenge the two rejected views.

Content
The Theories of technology article has content relevant to the topic as it shows many "Social theories". Some of these "Social theories" are how people believe human action shapes technology and how it has a flexibility to design artifacts that could symbolize or represent society or culture. The content is up-to-date as the article has been updated on August 16, 2020. Article has no missing content as each one of represents different sets of theories that change society. The article does not deal with any equity gaps, it does talk about some historical topics their not over represented.

Tone and Balance
The article is neutral when it comes to the different viewpoints as each section shows different approaches and theories when people use technology. The article does have heavily biased claims towards the certain theories of technology as some people claim technology is used to start drama and argue about political power. There is a viewpoint that I believe is underrepresented as it could of shown more about the other stances people have about technology. The article does not seem to persuade but talk about both sides and let the reader decide which side sounds better.

Organization
The article is clear to read as it talks about each theory and what each one believes. Their are no grammatical or spelling errors. It is well organized as the article spaces out each section and talk about each theory that helps describe all the different opinions.

Images and Media
The article does have a picture and the picture does show a little bit of what the topic is suppose to be about. The picture is well captioned and adheres to the copyright regulation. But it is not laid out in a appealing way as there is only one picture.

Overall impressions
The overall of the article is pretty good. The Lead, Organizations, Content, Tone and Balance make the article pretty good. It's biggest strength is it's content and tone. Their could've been more images so that way the picture would help visualize major viewpoints the article has. The article is well-developed only with minor issues.

Peer Review Assignment 7 completed
Alexander Lee Alcott peer reviewed Cooper's article.

Assignment 9 completed
I did not receive any review from students but I did get outside help to look over my article and give me criticism.

Add On To Article Computer ethics
- Things that need to change


 * Internet users hand over personal information in order to sign up or register for services without realizing that they are potentially setting themselves up for invasions of privacy. (Needs better source)
 * The term computer ethics was first coined by Walter Maner, (Unreliable source)

- Future Concerns (Add on to it)


 * (Add) In the future we have today, children don't really have any right to privacy because of their parents. But a big concern is how hackers take full advantage of this. As the child is being born, parents have live updates from the delivery room that they put out on social media which means children now have digital footprints before they're even born. Which could lead hackers to get to the kids so parents could pay them ransom. The FBI had to warn everyone that the data schools collect such as behavioral data and academic data have been hacked into and stolen from thousands of schools.
 * (Add) IT pros are people that know a lot about computers and how to work around anything that's on the computer. Even though these professionals are here to help there is also a little concern about the power they might hold. Computers hold so much data about people like who they are and what they do, this is a huge concern as the society we live in today is democratic. There is a struggle between the government and the citizens as everyone sees how much power the government holds as it grows more and more, making people afraid that they will have less control of their privacy.

Working on term paper (Some stuff might need to be edited)
TITLE: Why We Should Be A Little Concerned While Using Computers

Introduction
As society continues to develop across the world, all different kinds of technology was created. Radio's, TV's, gaming consoles were all made. But the biggest thing created was computers. People use computers for everything, whether you use it for simply googling something or doing your job and creating important files. To some people they see no problems, but other people have concerns. Some of these concerns brought up are how much privacy are we actually having and how it affects society today.

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