Interview with Older Generation
For this assignment, I interviewed my dad. He was born in 1961 just so you know.
Q: What new technologies came out during your lifetime?
A: Home computers, cell phones, satellite phones, iPod, microchip, calculators, color TV, CD’s, cassettes, A-tracks, cordless phone
Q: Which ones affected you the most?
A: Microchip because without this we wouldn’t have most technology listed above.
Q: Which ones did you have?
A: Calculator, color TV 21, A-track cassette player
Q: When? Recently? Childhood?
A: Childhood.
Q: What technology did you like the most?
A: Cell phone with internet capabilities-so many uses
Q: Do you still use it today?
A: Yes
Q: How often?
A: Daily
Q: What are your feelings on Facebook?
A: Good social medium for people getting in touch. Cool concept, but some people take it too far.
Q: How often used?
A: Once a week
Q: Comfortable putting information on it?
A: Yes.
Q: Private or not?
A: The users can control the amount of privacy, some people expose everything and take it too far.
It was very interesting interviewing my dad. He had a lot of interesting things to say about the technology brought about during his lifetime. It was most interesting when he talked about Facebook though. He rarely gets on it, but when he does he witnesses people putting a play by play of their life for the world on Facebook. He concluded saying that Facebook is as private as people make it. If people put their life story out there then it’s not private. But if one limits the amount of information put on Facebook then it’s as private as can be.
Filed under BGSU 1000: Digitally Mediated Social Cultures | Comments (3)Observation 5
So the past week or so on Facebook things have been very strange. Pictures of naked people have been appearing all over on people’s newsfeeds. But instead of people taking some sort of action about it they just complain about the mass porn on Facebook. It’s quite frustrating because all you have to do is report the photograph and it will be removed from the newsfeed.
People on Facebook have to be smart about what they put on there, because everyone can see it or share it. Many people are finding this out the hard way especially when it comes to jobs. I’ve heard of a couple people who have been fired/denied jobs due to the inappropriateness on their Facebook page. When it comes to Facebook,
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This week in class we assigned the parts of our research paper for our group members. We have six different parts, and my part is to research the background of facebook. We gave ourself an due date for this which is Nov. 22. I plan to go about this reseearch process by looking up articles, dissecting the facebook page. It shouldn’t be too difficult.
Filed under BGSU 1000: Digitally Mediated Social Cultures | Comment (0)Guest Speaker
Today in class, we had a guest speaker. She mostly talked about virtual identity. She gave examples of people who have multiple identieis online, like different names, hobbies, personalities, etc. The speaker referred to the book “Alone Together” and how it invloves interpersonal interactions. She also showed a very interesting video clip. It was a documentary about the younger generation on the internet and how they have different personalities online, feel more comfortable and can be thereself more, and the dependence on technology. The speaker left us with the thought of the “virtual footprint.” Basically saying that things on the internet can be there forever, and can harm our future. Do we want that?
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Today in class we had our interviews with the people whom we wrote about in our paper. I interviewed Lauren and Ginny, and was interviewed by Mike and Devan.
Lauren & Ginny:
I asked them to be more specific with their topic, and they said it was now the effects of smart phone usage on the college campus; pros and cons. They just narrowed down their topic recently (after my paper was written). Lauren gave some examples of pros and cons, like checking weather, email from a professor, etc. but some cons being texting and driving, texting in class, basically the phone being a distraction. Lauren gave me the reason why the topic was chosen which was since smart phones are popular on campus, and just recently became available, they wanted to find out the effects of these phones. Ginny went into detail about their research techniques which included interviewing and observation. My suggestions for them was to narrow down their topic, which they already had done, and to begin researching articles, which Ginny had already began.
Mike & Devan:
When being interviewed by these two I had to explain my research topic since it was recently narrowed down to the privacy available on facebook. Both of their suggestions to me was to blog more. But, they said that my blogs were very detailed and were easy to understand.
From interviewing and being interviewed, I now have more of an idea of how to go about conducting my research f
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