For something that happens in everyday
interaction, I found it painfully difficult finding data for my topic of
choice. Originally, I was going to do pretending to text in awkward situations.
It is so interesting to me how many of us do it, I do it, I’m sure you do it,
and I’m sure your friends do it. I bet someone is doing it right now. Anyway, I
found it difficult to really identify whether someone is texting or if they are
checking their Facebook or replying to emails. I think I have decided to roll
with the idea of using mobile phones (whether it be emailing, texting,
pretending to text, checking Facebook, or playing games) to avoid communicating
with other people. The YouTube video that I found is really the only live
footage I have stumbled across. Although it may be a bit of a stretch, I
believe it will still help me in getting this idea that cell phones have become
social barriers in society. I am going to attempt to look at it from more of a
micro perspective and work my way out to the macro implications.
YouTube video:
Hi Brittany, I really like your idea for your data discussion and completely agree. Although technology has been designed to connect people, there seems to be more socially disconnected people than ever before.
ReplyDeletePeople are using technology as a means to avoid communicating with others. A similar example I thought of was when people avoid potentially hard, awkward, conversations by sending a text instead of facing the person and dealing with whatever their reaction may be (good, bad or ugly). In my opinion this is a real problem because as people are avoiding dealing with face-to-face interactions the result is often a lot of hurt, confused and socially disconnected people.
I actually posted a video in my last blog that I think you would find very helpful for your essay. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3AsBEK4
It's titled "Connected, but alone" and is all about how the world is increasingly emotionally disconnected from one another as they are missing vital face-to-face contact with others and instead replacing it with computer mediated conversation
All the best :)