Response to 10/8/09 Class

I found the debate about the changing identities of teenagers through the internet to be an interesting. I liked the Frontline video, but it seemed a bit too extreme and exaggerated. I didn't like the use of just one town's high school to be applied to all high schools in America. While I can see why they did that, to make the whole video a single narrative, I personally didn't like the limited setting. I don't think that looking at the impact of the internet at one high school is enough, I feel it could have been more cross-cultural by looking at other high schools across the country within different socioeconomic classes as well; or look at the impact of the internet on youth worldwide, to compare the rise of the internet in America with the situation in Europe or China. It might have worked better as a series of videos about different cultures or socioeconomic groups as opposed to a single town.
- Jon Raouf