Blog 13- Smartmobs

I think that I have definitely experienced the changes in media, especially the changes in internet accessibility and dependence. Today students rely heavily on the internet, at first it was used to correspond with one another via e-mail or to play games, however, now students use the internet to do research and to network. This change has been a drastic one only because now I could do research on my phone if I really wanted to. Having internet on your phone is slowly going from a luxury to a necessity. I feel like the odd one out at times because I do not have a mobile device that can connect me to the internet, unless I carry my laptop around with me. Although I am quite tech savvy and can work a smartphone as well as the next nerd, I am still left out of the loop because I don’t have a smart phone with internet access. This is similar to the story in the article where the older members of a group were excluded from looking at a text because the younger person did not feel the older person would understand the media or the conversation.

Another experience that I have had with the change in media is definitely texting. Initially it was something new and interesting that I could do with my phone, but now it has become so much more than that. There are rules and texting etiquette, there are things that you could read into or things you shouldn’t read into. All of this is through a little message that is typically less than 200 characters long. Texting has become my go to method of communication rather than just calling the person. I feel that by texting I am not bothering the person, and they have the option to read the text later and respond when they can. However, they can do that with a phone call too. Not going to lie I have fallen into the texting thing, and I constantly keep in touch with friends this way. I know it is not personal, which is something that the article talks about. I am guilty of being one of those people that walk around almost aimlessly with my vision focused squarely on my phone and what I am typing. I have come to anticipate texts and read too far into a very late reply to my initial text. I feel that these are the two main things that I have experienced in the change of media and technology.