Technology and Disney: Good or Bad?
I found the article "Disney's 'Little Mermaid Second Screen Live' adds iPad twist" to be extremely interesting. In summary, the article discusses how Disney created an app on the iPad which allows for a more interactive movie experience with the Little Mermaid. Children can use the app during the movie to sing along, play games, and even interact with other children. The issue at hand is that this style of movie watching goes completely against the norm.
I believe that because technology has become so mobile and accessible these days, culture will change as well. Watching a movie in a more interactive way may become more common in the future. The reason I am not against this idea, is because as a society we must accept change. When I was younger I would never carry around an iPad and play games on it; I would have a small plastic toy. Through the improvements of technology, everyday life has changed, and so will movie watching one day. For example, people used to gather on large empty fields and watch a movie outside on a large screen. Now, people can search a movie online and multiple links to watch it online will pop up.
However, because this is still a developing change, I do not believe this gives the right for people to take out their phone and have a conversation while in the movie theater. Since Disney promoted this special interactive way of movie watching it is okay, as long as parents make it clear to their kids that they can only take out their iPads during certain movie watchings.
In the future, I believe this innovative idea of an interactive movie experience may become more popular, but I do not think that means the classic film watching setting of no talking, cell phones, etc. will diminish.
I agree! Reading the article at first, I found it shocking that they produced such an app for children. After thinking about, I figured, of course they did. Technology these days is crazy and although it is not preferred to see an iPad while at the movie theatres, it adds another level to the movie. However, I do see a problem in kids getting caught up in the games rather than watching the movies. Then, it can spread to other movies that don't even involve an app. In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with the old ways of simply watching the movie quietly for an hour. This is one area that we don't need technology to improve on!
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