TECHNOLOGY’S CHANGED HOW WE COMMUNICATE

The nature of communication has changed significantly over the last few decades with the advent of the internet and mobile communication, according to Diane, Mieczakowski, Johnson, Goldhaber & Clarkson (2016, p. 219). 


The communication amongst families and friends has changed. We don’t talk face to face anymore or call as often, and parents don’t talk to their kids like they did when I grew up. Byrom (2015) says that child development experts worry that cell phones ad personal computer devices, that are now common fixtures at the dinner table, distract from their children (and vice versa) and prevent them from engaging. As Turkle (2012) discusses in her TED talk, parents text and do email at breakfast and at dinner while their children complain about not having their parents attention.
Technologies are providing important connections as families are scattered across the globe to stay connected and engage in remote care giving, according to Bynum (2015). I know that family that I have, due to technology advancements I am able to stay in touch with them with a simple text over a long distance phone call or letter. I don’t see many or know of families that sit at a dinner table anymore without devices. I see the kids on their iPad's and the parents on their phones or iPads as well, some homes are multiple iPads home as they have more than one kid.  
 In the past families would sit around the table and talk, watch TV together, and engage with each-other. Now they all look at their devices if they are together physically and text or are scrolling though social media.

References:
 Byrum, G. (2015, May 1). How has technology changed America’s families? Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/05/how-has-technology-changed-americas-families/
Goodman-Deane, J., Mieczakowski, A., Johnson, D., & Goldhaber, T. (2016). The impact of communication technologies on life and relationship satisfaction. Computers in Human Behavior ,57, 219-229. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.053

T. (Director). (2012, February). Connected, but alone? [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3AsBEK4

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

INSTANT GRATIFICATION

Image
“ Technology wants what life wants. Increasing efficiency; increasing opportunity; increasing emergence; increasing complexity; increasing diversity; increasing freedom; increasing beauty and increasing evaluability”, said Kevin Kelly according to Wu (2014). Technology’s advancements have us wanting instant connection, instant updates, and instantly having a page load. Waiting for anything to load or change over, because of slow internet or weak Wi-Fi signal has somehow become frustrating to us and feels like forever. It becomes really annoying like we don’t have time for it, yet is just a few seconds more. According to Muther (2013), the demand for instant results is seeping into every corner of our lives, and not just virtually.  It happens when at stores, in traffic and even waiting for coffee, I see the impatience in people. As Muther points out, instant gratification come at a price: it’s. Making us less patient. We have come as a society to expect things now and quickly th...
Read more

The Changing Face of News gathering Due to Technology

Image
Reposted from April 30, 2017 The definition of news gathering is of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting news, according to dictionary.com. One of the ways technology has changed the work of communicators is by crowd sourcing and news gathering. The crowd or audience can add a location or topic to a social media post with a hashtag (#) to create a story trending and a chain of posts connected, providing information for journalists. Crowd sourcing gives the people a voice in the news gathering, according to Kolodzy (2013, p. 38). The audience is going to get closer to the story “is going to get closer to the story, get closer to us and we need to keep pace with the way the audience expectations are changing in terms of how we are reporting the news but also how we are bringing people to the conversation and reporting back what they are telling us as well, according to Marrouch (2014). The crowd sourcing provides communicators a faster way to have more inform...
Read more