I plan to produce a video piece that awakens the audience of how consumed we are with our tech gadgets and/or social media platforms. This is a social issue I’m passionate about because I consider myself more of an introvert who also happens to lean more to the side of face to face communication, rather than social media.
Every single waking hour, we are surrounded by a society who has their nose a few inches away from the computer or phone screen or t.v. or all three. Grant it, a bunch of us NEED these things for school work, emails, relationships, et cetera. but do we really need to “check in” every couple minutes? Has the ring or buzz of our gadgets fostered some unconscious paranoia ? I believe so. I believe, as well as millions of others, that we can no longer live without “checking in” every so often. Many of us have just come to accept this. I’m painfully becoming aware that I can no longer hold back either. But before I officially convert, I wanna send a message to the people of the vortex: this is what we look like.
This link - http://on.cc.com/1EnDFBf - is a two minute clip from the show Broad City on Comedy Central. It highlights a scary similar story that happens to me, and I’m sure many of you, all the time.
Honestly, I understand you. You rather learn more to the side of face to face communication, rather than social media. You might as well face it technologies is the new way of communication for most.
ReplyDeleteThe is a world where younger consumers were earlier adopters of smartphones and streaming web video but some of the gaps may be narrowing as well-heeled boomers are eagerly discovering new technologies. “While [boomers] have not grown up with publicly available Internet and wireless technologies, they have become avid users of these offerings.”. We live in a world where boomers are reaching their earning prime, giving them money to spend on tech gadgets. There is a vast amount of money being invested and made while we promote this senseless paranoia. . So as we are aware, we must understand yes this is what the world looks like a tech savy world.
http://news.nationalpost.com/life/generation-gadget-bucking-technology
Interesting topic idea. You are right, as much as technology connects us, it disconnects us as well. People are always plugged into something, checking into to something. It almost feels like a piece of yourself is missing when your phone dies or if you forget it at home. I think it would be cool if you talked about how this effects children growing up now, kids who are 8-10 years old now have iPads, iPhones a lot quicker than any of us had cell phones. Cell phones today do a lot more now than they did 10 years ago. What are the negative implications of kids using and essentially becoming addicted to this technology at a young age? Are there any positives at all?
ReplyDeleteI found this article on the dailynews, check it out.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/clever-photos-capture-addiction-technology-article-1.2396675
http://globalnews.ca/news/527348/reality-check-can-children-become-addicted-to-technology/
You got a great premise here Antonio, but speaking to you as a fellow Video Production Collegue since you plan to make this a video, how do you plan to make your video stand out from the other videos out there that discuss this same topic?This topic in particular is one that MANY people have delved into and played mostly satiracally. You could go surreal ala Takesue and maybe show literally how we are consumed with our media to have a more powerful visually engaging piece. There could be room for a lot of creative shots and would be a different perspective than how this topic is normally discussed.
ReplyDeleteAlso I'd recommend fleshing out the resolution of your piece more. If the idea behind it is "Look what we've become", then most of us are already self aware of this. That self awareness could change the meaning you go for.
If you remember I asked the professor "Do you feel we're becoming like the society of Big Brother" and she didn't feel this way because we are aware of our consumption of media.
The question you should raise is "Is this the new norm and that's ok? Or is it that we need to regress backwards away from this technology, and if so how do we even begin doing that?"
To clarify this is Ali Ismail. Forgot to put so in the previous post.
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