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changed this signal into different technology to relieve them from the reality. On the other
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lead to the change of their behavior in the real world. Some scholars pointed out that most
players suffer from some kinds of effects on both their body and mind when they join the
world of games (Ken s. Mcallister, 2004).
But it is unfair and incorrect to conclude that people are totally passive receivers. To
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to resist the attraction from technology. Some group boycotts against Happy Farm was
the best example. They had the ability of control to decide what kind of technology could
be adopted and whether it could be prompted to the market. So people had the power to
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could be corrected by people. For example, when more and more people were addicted to
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education and net addiction treatment.
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From the whole article it could be found that technology, people and society were not
only three isolated individual factors. They were tightly connected with each other and
worked as a whole. Technology, people and society formed a linear mechanism with people
in the middle and technology and society at the two ends respectively just as following
picture shows.
Technology People Society
The above is the interaction mechanism between technology, people and society. With
“people” at the centre of them exchanging information of those two, “technology” and
“society” can communicate and interact with each other. On the right, society can put
some pressure such as economic pressure and emotional problem on people. Forced by
these pressures, people automatically turn to technology for help. They use technology as
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itself in people’s mind once they get into the world of technology. Affected by the technology
unconsciously, people will gradually behavior according to rules from technological world
even in their real life. Technology successfully shapes the society by the hand of people.
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