New Structure
Title: “I cant live without
my phone” - A study into the effects of advancing smartphone technology and
it’s direct impact on today’s society.
Introduction (300 words)
Content/Aim: Outline argument,
relevance
· Paragraph 1 (300 words)
Content/Aim: The smartphone as a
platform – set the scene
·
Internet and social
media
·
Statistics
·
Positive effects of
smartphone use
Paragraph 2 (300 words)
Content/Aim: Learning and
productivity
Paragraph 3 (300 words)
Content/Aim: Health, Mind and brain
· Physical health
· Mental health
· Communication, behaviour, identities,
social division, relationships
· The mind
·
Paragraph 4 (300 words)
Content/Aim:
· Paragraph 5 (400 words)
Content/Aim: Image 1 analysis – Art
Meats Technology – Mads Peitersen
·
Digital/smartphone
technology being an extension of ourselves
·
Inanimate object with
human qualities – leading to a relationship with object
·
Links to “I can’t live
without my phone”. “My phone has died”. Connotes human relationships/qualities/characteristics.
·
Apps need to be used
to keep the digital world fed (represented by organs linked to apps in image)
·
Image is indifferent.
No positive/negative representation of technology on media. Left up to audience
to decide for themselves what the message of this image is and if its
positive/negative.
·
Vast technological
advancements – now human like in efficiency, productivity and output.
·
The absence of a
“brain” as such in this work and all other works in this series by Peitersen
speaks volumes. Technology is “mindless”?
·
Quotes about image by
artist or others?
Paragraph 6 (400 words)
Content/Aim: Image 2 analysis –
Digital Jailhouse
·
Alienation/isolation
·
May provide activities
to occupy our time and attention (represented by basketball outdoor
recreational area in image) however this itself serves as an imprisonment.
Stopping us from interacting physically and mentally with the outside world.
·
Bleak
·
The setting and outside
world around the digital jailhouse in this image is also bleak, suggesting that
the world has been made bleaker as a result of the presence of these devices
and how we use them.
·
Quotes about image by
artist or others?
·
Unable to escape -
jail
Paragraph 7 (400 words)
Content/Aim: Image 3 + 4 analysis –
“Like” and “Social” by Luis Quiles
Controversial
Cultural references (apps
like instagram and facebook etc)
“Like” Image notes
·
Self gratification
linked to “likes” received on social network
·
Links to dopamine
comment from Susan Greenfield
·
In seek of a quick fix
reward (a “like”) for a comment/picture
·
Action and reward –
easy satisfaction
·
Online
presence/popularity
·
Quotes about image by
artist or others?
“Social” Image notes
·
Invasion of personal
space
·
Privacy
·
Have to shut up and
take it as this is what the digital world has become
·
No escape
·
This is how we
communicate
·
All avenues of
communication via social networking are invasive
·
Bombarding / force-fed
·
What this does to our
identity
·
Quotes about image by
artist or others?
Conclusion (300 words)
Content/Aim: Put across findings.
Tie evidence together. Conclude personal argument and opinion. Answer questions
outlined in title, introduction and throughout.
· Bibliography
Books
Internet
Images
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Quotes and Notes
Key for Quotes
‘SG’ = Susan Greenfield – Mind
Change
‘RW’ = Richard Watson – Future Minds
‘GG’ = Gerard Goggin – Cell Phone
Culture
‘DE’ = Deloitte Consumer Survey ‘14
‘IH’ = Ira Hyman (Psychologist)
‘PR’ = Pamela Rutledge
‘TCP’ = Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
(Personality Expert)
‘GF’ = George Fieldman
(Psychologist)
‘ML’ = Matthew Lieberman
(Psychologist)
Main points
Smartphones as a
platform – what they do for us
-an extension of ourselves
-what we use it for/what it does for
us that we no longer have too
maps
keeps
phone numbers
wakes
us up
reminders
communication
(across all social networks – as well as call/txt/video call)
shopping
keeps
us healthy – health apps
time/weather
*Quotes
GG: “Mobiles
have become hybrid devices that articulate with our new technologies such as
digital cameras, portable digital assistance, or location technologies.” (pg. 2)
Statistics
Deloitte:
· “Tens of millions of us reach for
our phones as soon as we wake; younger generations glance at their phones
dozens of times a day; many of us ashamedly admit to looking at our phones
before turning in for the night.”
· “More than two in three UK adults –
about 35 million people – now have a smartphone.”
· “We don’t seem able to leave our
smartphones alone. About one in six UK adults who own a smartphone (equivalent
to about six million people) look at their phone more than 50 times a day”
· “About a third of UK adults who own
a smartphone (equivalent to about 11 million people) look at their phone within
five minutes of waking and almost half within 15 minutes”
· A massive 83% of all smartphone
users check their phone within the first hour of waking up (not taking into
consideration turning the off alarms)
· “The smartphone application that is
used first thing in the morning by most respondents is SMS (accessed first by
33 per cent) followed by email (by 25 per cent) and social networks (by 14 per
cent).”
· “The smartphone has rapidly become
the device that many of us cannot live without.”
Positive effects of
smartphones
-technology and information at our
fingertips
-productivity – working “on-the-go”
-connectivity/communication –
staying in contact with friends, families, colleagues & business. Making
new connections – social media
-organisation – notes, reminders,
alarms
-learning – access to information -
internet
-How telecommunication companies and
network providers promote mobile phone usage. (to be used as a positive
argument to compare to all my negative findings)
SG: “There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get
everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform
society for the future” – Mark Zuckerberg. (pg. 101)
Find this quote from another source?
Apple IPhone 6 advert:
https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/films/#huge
“They can
change the way you see the world” Jimmy Fallon
“They can
help you improve your health” Jimmy Fallon
IPhone 6 promises to be “bigger then bigger”
Tim Cook – Apple CEO on IPhone 6
release:
“the most loved smartphone in
the world”
Samsung on IoT (The Internet of
Things) – meaning the future of connectivity:
“the Internet of Things (IoT)
is where phones, computers, smart watches, even washing machines communicate
without us having to be involved.”
Samsung CEO – BK Yoon on Samsung
galaxy S6 and S6 edge release:
"What
we're holding in our hands is infinite possibilities; now it's up to us to
unlock them.”
Nokia Lumia slogan:
“Powerful mobile devices that help you do more.”
Nokia slogan:
“Connecting People”
*Quotes
· GG: “Cell phones
have come to be associated with qualities of mobility, portability, and
customisation. They fit into new ways of being oneself (or constructing
identity and belonging to a group); new ways of organising and conducting ones
life; new ways of keeping in touch with friends, romantic intimates, and
family; new ways of conducting business; new ways of accessing services or
education.” (pg. 2)
· GG: “the cell
phone has the ‘good’ power to increase dramatically our productivity and social
capital, become our life-recorder, or help us powerfully organise a rally.” (pg. 206 – 207 …check)
· IH: “This isn’t addiction. This is social interaction. When you conduct your social
life via text, keeping track of your cell phone takes on particular importance.
Older adults, like me, shouldn’t make judgments about cell phone use in younger
adults, or at least we should withhold the negative evaluations of people
constantly checking their cell phones. Perhaps instead we can respect the cell
phone and internet natives. These young adults have grown up using cell phones
and the internet. They’ve learned to effectively maintain and enhance (and
sometimes end) social relationships through the ether. Maybe they will be more
engaged with and attached to their social groups than older adults who are
still learning to keep in touch in the modern era.
·
PR: ““Mobile technologies like smartphones and tablets have removed the
geographic boundaries for use and significantly reduced socioeconomic barriers.
The appeal of social media is tremendous—it triggers our fundamental drive for
social connection and allows us more control over our world.”
· ML: “Technology always changes us in both good and bad ways and what
counts as good or bad depends deeply on one’s perspective.”
· ML: “so many interesting
connections with people that never would have happened without the internet.”
· ML: “Maybe
these digital technologies will provide some sustenance for our social
appetites, particularly during times of transition or travel. But if they
aren’t enough, people will turn to other ways of connecting—maybe traditional
and maybe some even more technological (e.g. virtual reality or holographic
chatting?).”
· ML: “Adolescence is hard and technologies have always provided some way to
cope with this difficulty.”
· ML: “when I look
back at depictions of social interactions from the 19th century, when none of
this technology was “getting in the way,” it usually seems far more awkward and
restrained. Maybe technology has actually helped us understand each other
better and get more information about what motivates us and other people.”
Learning and
productivity
-cant think for ourselves
-no need to learn anything – Google
tells us all
-intelligence
TCP: “technology will
continue to evolve and the gap between what can be solved with and without it
will only increase.”
therefore
“people who are able to keep up with technology
will outsmart those who don't (even more than they do now).”
“Life has become more complex but we hardly ever
notice it because technology has made complexity simpler than ever.”
TCP: “Humans
today are like most smartphones and tablets - their ability to solve problems
depends not on the knowledge they can store but on their capacity to connect to
a place where they can retrieve the answer to find a solution. This is what
some have labelled the "hyper-link" economy... the only knowledge we
need to have is the knowledge of where to find stuff.”
RW: “Digital devices are turning us into a society of
scatterbrains. If any piece of information can be recalled at the click of a
mouse, why bother to learn anything? We are becoming Google-eyed, scrolling
through our days without thinking deeply about what we are really doing or
where we are really going.” (pg. 3)
RW: “We are in danger of developing…A society that has plenty of
answers but very few good questions. A society composed of individuals who are
unable to think by themselves in the real world.” (pg.
3)
-Distraction
RW: “To me it feels as if time itself is being
compressed. Having even an hour during the day just to think or write,
uninterrupted, is becoming a luxury, mainly due to digital technology.” (pg. 5)
RW: “Distraction isn’t merely available, it’s unavoidable.” - Caroline
Johnson (pg. 123)
-Focus/Multi-tasking
RW: “We are finding it difficult to remain focused and we
are becoming addicted to the screen.” (pg. 6)
SG: “When they (high
multi-taskers) are in situations where there are multiple sources of
information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they’re
not able to filter out what’s not relevant to their current goal. The failure
to filter means they’re slowed down by that irrelevant information” – Anthony
Wagner (pg. 228)
SG: “It’s no real surprise that concentration is the key and
that multi-tasking can be counterproductive.” (pg.
229)
SG: “Evidence is mounting regarding the negative effects of
attempting to process different streams of information simultaneously, and
results now indicate that multi-tasking leads to increased time needed to
achieve the same level of learning, as well as increase in mistakes while
processing information, compared to those who sequentially or serially process
the same information.” (pg. 230 – 231)
-Devoid of deeper thought
SG: Are our brains adapting and becoming a computer
themselves, “a system responding efficiently and processing information very
well, but devoid of deeper thought”. (pg 12)
-Impatience/rapid response
RW: “We are already so connected through digital networks
that a culture of rapid response has developed. We are currently so continually
available that we have left ourselves no time to think properly about what we
are doing.” (pg. 2)
-Smartphones should be used as an
aid – not a replacement – for our brain.
-Are we really “living” life, having
machines do all the living for us?
*More Quotes
· GG: “Telephones
have had something of an invisible presence in society and culture, but with
the advent of cell phones the role of telecommunications has become much more
central and harder to ignore.” (pg. 2)
·
RW: “Computers are useless. They
can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso (pg. 11)
·
RW: “The twenty-first century teen,
connected and multi-tasked, autonomous yet peer-mindful, marks no great leap
forward in human intelligence or global thinking” – William Strauss and Neil Howe
(pg. 21)
·
RW: “If we are so smart, why do we seem
so intent on giving our minds away to an array of digital distractions? Why
doesn’t society have more time for slow thinking and single-tasking? And why
are we allowing machines to destroy the very things that make us human and make
life worth living?” (pg.61)
Health/Mind/Brain
·
Mental Health
- Detached
from reality
RW:
“We are in danger of
developing a society that is globally connected and collaborative, but one that
is also impatient, isolated, and detached from reality.” (pg. 3)
SG:
“for the first time
ever, life in front of a computer screen is threatening to out-compete real
life.” (pg. 17)
SG: “Experts have argued that the
internet creates a unique world which adds an extra ‘disengagement’ from
immoral actions.” (pg. 153)
- Anxiety,
Depression, Isolation
SG:
“the twenty-four-hour
availability of social networking, plus an unedited and unrealistic snapshot of
what everyone else is up to, are all factors that might prove to be a heady
cocktail for some individuals” (pg. 151)
GF: "Social anxiety
may also be heightened by mobile phones. This is because people can avoid full
social contact, by means of texting and e-mail. Avoidance is fundamental to the
maintenance of anxiety. People experiencing anxiety may also be less empathic,
so enhancing selfish attitudes."
- Implications
of being unable to switch off
RW: “What happens to the quality of our
thinking when we never truly sit still or completely switch off?” (pg. 4)
·
Physical
- Sleep
deprivation
- Exercise
·
The Mind
-Addiction/action
& reward reflex
RW: “Email, SMS, social networks, and the
like are addictive attention eaters.” (pg. 125)
-Dopamine
· SG: “It’s
not difficult to see an overlap between feeling excited and feeling happy. Many
activities in life that are arousing, such as fast-paced sports, are also
rewarding. Suffice it to say that if various brain states relating to arousal
and reward are consistently linked to raised levels of dopamine, and if social
networking sites are rewarding and exciting, it is very likely that social
networking might serve as another trigger for the release of dopamine in the
brain.” (pg. 111) – find more info about dopamine
& heroin in her book
-Dependency
-Nomophobia-fear/phobia
of being without a mobile phone/smartphone
Smartphones changing our identities
SG: “it may be that a daily existence revolving around
the smartphone, iPad, laptop and Xbox is radically changing not just our
everyday lifestyles, but also our identities and even our inner thoughts.” (pg. 1)
Social
identity
Obsessed with technology innovation
RW: “We have now become so obsessed with asking whether
something can be done that we leave
little or no time to consider whether it should
be done.” (pg. 2)
I cant live without my phone –
people’s reactions to being without their phone
RW: “50 percent of Blackberry users would be “concerned”
if they were parted from their digital device and 10 percent would be
“devastated”. (pg. 17)
Communication, relationships, social
division, behaviour
Lack of face-to-face communication –
human need for interaction
RW: “We are increasingly communicating via text message
and email rather than face to face, we have hundreds of online “friends” yet we
may not know the people next door, and the first place we look for information
is Google.” (pg. 1)
RW: “We are connected globally, but our local relationships are
becoming wafer thin and ephemeral.” (pg. 3)
RW: “But conversation is critical to ideas and innovation.
Moreover, the very technologies that are bringing us closer together on one
level are tearing us apart on another.” (pg. 125)
RW: “While we may be
communicating with each other more, we may be listening and understanding each
other less.” (pg. 126)
SG: “It seems that
the benefits of dialogue, of face-to-face discussion of issues and
problem-solving still exceed the benefits of virtual communication.” (pg. 240)
GF: "The advent of mobile phones, especially
smart phones, has brought numerous advantages. It enables us to keep better
connected to people who are known to us - but at the expense of those in front
of us.
GF: "The attention of someone with a
mobile phone can be instantly withdrawn from their immediate environment,
depriving both the phone user and those around them of social involvement. This
distraction from people in the phone user's vicinity accords with more selfish
behaviour.
In comparison to reality…GF: "All mobile
phones provide, essentially, 'narrow band' communications, compared with the
3D, stereo, full-colour, high resolution, real-time experience of talking to
someone face-to-face.”
*More Quotes
·
Definition: Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile
phone contact.
·
RW: “Technology such as cell phones,
search engines, and email does the very opposite. It can create a cerebral
whiteout.” (pg. 23)
· SG: “You
wake. The first thing you do is check your smartphone (62% of us), and in all
probability (79%), you’ll be checking your phone within the first 15 minutes of
consciousness.” (pg. 17)
· GG:
“mobile technologies are powerfully ‘bad’, inciting us to riot, affray,
excessive sociability or solipsism, or crimes against grammar or cultural
values.” (pg. 206 - 207)
·
RW: “Being busy prevents us from asking
deep and difficult questions about ourselves. We do not like being alone with
our thoughts any more than we like to be seen doing nothing. They are the twin
terrors of our electronic age. Further modern malaise is anxiety, which is
soothed by the illusion of control that we gain from the constant technological
connectedness. (pg. 123)
·
SG: “the
human brain will adapt to whatever environment in which it is placed; the cyber
world of the twenty-first century is offering a new type of environment; the
brain could therefore be changing in parallel, in correspondingly new ways.” (pg. 13)
Notes for essay:
Reliance on technology for
information could be skewing reality and the truth about the information we
find out and about the people we make relationships with whilst using it. If
they aren’t portraying themselves truthfully, and if we only use digital means
to find out about them/stay in contact – is this relationship a real one, where
we have control over our own perceptions of reality? No. Are these
relationships long lasting? More easily replaced than face-to-face contact.
· Mobile phones as a tool for social
networking and internet usage
· More connected/less connected
physically
· Psychological impact of mobile
phones
· Positive impact
· Mental health
· Productivity
· How telecommunication companies and
network providers promote mobile phone usage. (to be used as a positive
argument to compare to all my negative findings)
· Forming a stronger relationship with
our physical mobile phone because of all it can do, than the relationships
upheld whilst using it.
· Future hungry and full of innovation
and modern possibilities
· The next best thing – now. Samsung
“This is Next”. “Next is now”
Nokia:
“Connecting People”
Multi-tasking
vs “deeper thought”
Positive
impacts
-organisation
-information
at your fingertips
-efficiency
-multitasking
-communication
Communication
implications
The mind
-susan
greenfield
-dopamine
-becoming a
machine ourselves
-devoid of
deeper thought
The
internet and social media
The
smartphone as a platform
-
statistics
are the
relationships we build stronger or weaker through the use of technology?
In conclusion it is clear to see that not only are our day-to-day lives changing as a result of advancements in mobile and digital technology and all that comes with it, but that our minds are as well. The imposing and addictive nature of technology and our growing need to be constantly connected (yet truly disconnected) is quietly stripping us of our privacy, our sanity, our independence and our basic cognitive and communicative skills. Whilst this cyber world advancing before us may look shiny, new and full of endless possibilities, there is an increasing chance that this need to be digital may be our downfall and a step in the wrong direction for human intelligence, as we begin to become the mindless machines that serve us.
“ diminish personal
communication”
Negative
impacts of constant digital access and connectivity by way of smartphone use
far outweigh the positives. Not to say that we need to slow down/remove
technological advancements from our lives completely, but we should however
consider seeking other forms of communication that are not electronic. Try to
limit the digital hold on our lives and not forget the more beneficial and
natural ways of communicating without a screen.
dependency
Mobile Phone Quotes
Richard Watson – Future Minds
· We are increasingly communicating
via text message and email rather than face to face, we have hundreds of online
“friends” yet we may not know the people next door, and the first place we look
for information is Google. (pg. 1)
· What happens to the quality of our
thinking when we never truly sit still or completely switch off? (pg. 4)
· To me it feels as if time itself is
being compressed. Having even an hour during the day just to think or write,
uninterrupted, is becoming a luxury, mainly due to digital technology. (pg. 5)
· 50 percent of Blackberry users would
be “concerned” if they were parted from their digital device and 10 percent
would be “devastated”. (pg. 17)
· Technology such as cell phones,
search engines, and email does the very opposite. It can create a cerebral whiteout. (pg. 23)
Susan Greenfield – Mind Change
· it may be that a daily existence
revolving around the smartphone, iPad, laptop and Xbox is radically changing
not just our everyday lifestyles, but
also our identities and even our inner thoughts. (pg. 1)
· You wake. The first thing you do is
check your smartphone (62% of us), and in all probability (79%), you’ll be
checking your phone within the first 15 minutes of consciousness. (pg. 17)
Gerard Goggin – Cell Phone Culture
· Cell phones have come to be
associated with qualities of mobility, portability, and customisation. They fit
into new ways of being oneself (or constructing identity and belonging to a
group); new ways of organising and conducting ones life; new ways of keeping in
touch with friends, romantic intimates, and family; new ways of conducting
business; new ways of accessing services or education. (pg.
2)
· Mobiles have become hybrid devices
that articulate with our new technologies such as digital cameras, portable
digital assistance, or location technologies. (pg.
2)
· Telephones have had something of an
invisible presence in society and culture, but with the advent of cell phones
the role of telecommunications has become much more central and harder to
ignore. (pg. 2)
· the cell phone has the ‘good’ power
to increase dramatically our productivity and social capital, become our
life-recorder, or help us powerfully organise a rally. The flip-side of this is
the belief that mobile technologies are powerfully ‘bad’, inciting us to riot,
affray, excessive sociability or solipsism, or crimes against grammar or
cultural values. (pg. 206 - 207)
Digital / Other
Richard Watson – Future Minds
· We are already so connected through
digital networks that a culture of rapid response has developed. We are
currently so continually available that we have left ourselves no time to think
properly about what we are doing. (pg. 2)
·
We
have now become so obsessed with asking whether something can be done that we leave little or no time to consider whether it should be done. (pg. 2)
·
Digital
devices are turning us into a society of scatterbrains. If any piece of
information can be recalled at the click of a mouse, why bother to learn
anything? We are becoming Google-eyed, scrolling through our days without
thinking deeply about what we are really doing or where we are really going.
·
We
are connected globally, but our local relationships are becoming wafer thin and
ephemeral. (pg. 3)
·
We
are in danger of developing a society that is globally connected and
collaborative, but one that is also impatient, isolated, and detached from
reality. A society that has plenty of answers but very few good questions. A
society composed of individuals who are unable to think by themselves in the
real world. (pg. 3)
·
We
are finding it difficult to remain focused and we are becoming addicted to the
screen.
(pg. 6)
·
“Computers
are useless. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso (pg. 11)
·
“The
twenty-first century teen, connected and multi-tasked, autonomous yet
peer-mindful, marks no great leap forward in human intelligence or global
thinking”
– William Strauss and Neil Howe (pg. 21)
·
If
we are so smart, why do we seem so intent on giving our minds away to an array
of digital distractions? Why doesn’t society have more time for slow thinking
and single-tasking? And why are we allowing machines to destroy the very things
that make us human and make life worth living? (pg.61)
·
Being
busy prevents us from asking deep and difficult questions about ourselves. We
do not like being alone with our thoughts any more than we like to be seen
doing nothing. They are the twin terrors of our electronic age. Further modern
malaise is anxiety, which is soothed by the illusion of control that we gain
from the constant technological connectedness. Writer Caroline Johnson sums
things up succinctly: “Distraction isn’t merely available, it’s unavoidable.” (pg. 123)
·
But
conversation is critical to ideas and innovation. Moreover, the very
technologies that are bringing us closer together on one level are tearing us
apart on another. (pg. 125)
·
Email,
SMS, social networks, and the like are addictive attention eaters. (pg. 125)
·
While
we may be communicating with each other more, we may be listening and
understanding each other less. (pg. 126)
Susan Greenfield – Mind Change
· Are our brains adapting and becoming
a computer themselves, “a system responding efficiently and processing
information very well, but devoid of deeper thought”. (pg
12)
· the human brain will adapt to
whatever environment in which it is placed; the cyber world of the twenty-first
century is offering a new type of environment; the brain could therefore be
changing in parallel, in correspondingly new ways. (pg.
13)
· for the first time ever, life in
front of a computer screen is threatening to out-compete real life. (pg. 17)
· “There is a huge need and a huge
opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice
and to help transform society for the future” – Mark
Zuckerberg. (pg. 101)
· It’s not difficult to see an overlap
between feeling excited and feeling happy. Many activities in life that are
arousing, such as fast-paced sports, are also rewarding. Suffice it to say that
if various brain states relating to arousal and reward are consistently linked
to raised levels of dopamine, and if social networking sites are rewarding and
exciting, it is very likely that social networking might serve as another
trigger for the release of dopamine in the brain. (pg.
111)
· the twenty-four-hour availability of
social networking, plus an unedited and unrealistic snapshot of what everyone
else is up to, are all factors that might prove to be a heady cocktail for some
individuals (pg. 151)
· Experts have argued that the internet
creates a unique world which adds an extra ‘disengagement’ from immoral
actions. (pg. 153)
· “When they (high multi-taskers) are in
situations where there are multiples sources of information coming from the
external world or emerging out of memory, they’re not able to filter out what’s
not relevant to their current goal. The failure to filter means they’re slowed
down by that irrelevant information” – Anthony Wagner (pg.
228)
· It’s no real surprise that
concentration is the key and that multi-tasking can be counterproductive. (pg. 229)
· Evidence is mounting regarding the
negative effects of attempting to process different streams of information
simultaneously, and results now indicate that multi-tasking leads to increased
time needed to achieve the same level of learning, as well as increase in
mistakes while processing information, compared to those who sequentially or
serially process the same information. (pg. 230 –
231)
· It seems that the benefits of
dialogue, of face-to-face discussion of issues and problem-solving still exceed
the benefits of virtual communication. (pg. 240)
Internet Quotes
http://www.deloitte.co.uk/mobileuk/assets/pdf/Deloitte_Mobile_Consumer_2014.pdf
“Tens of millions of us reach for our phones as soon as we wake; younger generations glance at their phones dozens of times a day; many of us ashamedly admit to looking at our phones before turning in for the night.”
“More than two in three UK adults – about 35 million people – now have a smartphone.”
“We don’t seem able to leave our smartphones alone. About one in six UK adults who own a smartphone (equivalent to about six million people) look at their phone more than 50 times a day”
“About a third of UK adults who own a smartphone (equivalent to about 11 million people) look at their phone within five minutes of waking and almost half within 15 minutes”
A massive 83% of all smartphone users check their phone within the first hour of waking up (not taking into consideration turning the off alarms)
“The smartphone application that is
used first thing in the morning by most respondents is SMS (accessed first by
33 per cent) followed by email (by 25 per cent) and social networks (by 14 per
cent).”
“The smartphone has rapidly
become the device that many of us cannot live without.”
2014
Ira Hyman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University.
This
isn’t addiction. This is social
interaction. When you conduct your social life via text, keeping track of your
cell phone takes on particular importance. Older adults, like me, shouldn’t
make judgments about cell phone use in younger adults, or at least we should
withhold the negative evaluations of people constantly checking their cell
phones. Perhaps instead we can respect the cell phone and internet natives.
These young adults have grown up using cell phones and the internet. They’ve
learned to effectively maintain and enhance (and sometimes end) social
relationships through the ether. Maybe they will be more engaged with and
attached to their social groups than older adults who are still learning to
keep in touch in the modern era.
Pamela Rutledge,
Ph.D., M.B.A.
“Mobile
technologies like smartphones and tablets have removed the geographic
boundaries for use and significantly reduced socioeconomic barriers. The appeal
of social media is tremendous—it triggers our fundamental drive for social
connection and allows us more control over our world.”
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Look Up – Gary Turk
Ironic that you find out about the video via digital/online means –
however this way it reaches a wider audience.
personality expert
argues that now digital technology
is here to stay
“technology will continue to evolve and the gap between what can be
solved with and without it will only increase.”
therefore
“people who are able to keep up with technology
will outsmart those who don't (even more than they do now).”
“Life has become more complex but we hardly ever
notice it because technology has made complexity simpler than ever.”
“Humans today are like most smartphones and
tablets - their ability to solve problems depends not on the knowledge they can
store but on their capacity to connect to a place where they can retrieve the
answer to find a solution. This is what some have labelled the "hyper-link"
economy... the only knowledge we need to have is the knowledge of where to find
stuff.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mr-personality/201305/is-technology-making-us-stupid-and-smarter
The British Psychological Society
17/02/2012
George Fieldman, Chartered Psychologist, commented:
"The advent of mobile phones, especially
smart phones, has brought numerous advantages. It enables us to keep better
connected to people who are known to us - but at the expense of those in front
of us.
"The attention of someone with a mobile
phone can be instantly withdrawn from their immediate environment, depriving
both the phone user and those around them of social involvement. This
distraction from people in the phone user's vicinity accords with more selfish
behaviour.
"All mobile phones provide, essentially,
'narrow band' communications, compared with the 3D, stereo, full-colour, high
resolution, real-time experience of talking to someone face-to-face.
"Social anxiety may also be heightened by
mobile phones. This is because people can avoid full social contact, by means
of texting and e-mail. Avoidance is fundamental to the maintenance of anxiety.
People experiencing anxiety may also be less empathic, so enhancing selfish
attitudes."
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apple iphone 6 – adverthttps://www.apple.com/iphone-6/films/#huge
“They can change the way you see the world” Jimmy Fallon
“They can help you improve your health” Jimmy Fallon
promises to be “bigger then bigger”
https://www.apple.com/uk/pr/library/2014/09/09Apple-Announces-iPhone-6-iPhone-6-Plus-The-Biggest-Advancements-in-iPhone-History.html
Tim Cook – Apple CEO
“the most loved smartphone in
the world”
CES
(Consumer Electronics Association) 2015 Keynote Address by BK Yoon (Samsung
Electronics CEO)
"What
we're holding in our hands is infinite possibilities; now it's up to us to
unlock them.”
By David on 25th Feb, 2015
“the Internet of Things (IoT)
is where phones, computers, smart watches, even washing machines communicate
without us having to be involved.”
“it's more likely that our
phones will be the only thing we need, working as identification devices,
digital wallets and, oh yes, a way to make phone calls.”
Lumia
Powerful mobile devices
that help you do more.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/mobile/phones/lumia/?gclid=CNqdx7vn6cQCFcsBwwodAEwAOA
published by Matthew D. Lieberman Ph.D. on Oct 21, 2013
“Technology always changes us in both good and
bad ways and what counts as good or bad depends deeply on one’s perspective.”
“so many interesting connections with people
that never would have happened without the internet.”
“Maybe these digital technologies
will provide some sustenance for our social appetites, particularly during
times of transition or travel. But if they aren’t enough, people will turn to
other ways of connecting—maybe traditional and maybe some even more
technological (e.g. virtual reality or holographic chatting?).”
“Adolescence is hard and technologies have always provided some way to cope
with this difficulty.”
“when I look back at
depictions of social interactions from the 19th century, when none of this
technology was “getting in the way,” it usually seems far more awkward and
restrained. Maybe technology has actually helped us understand each other
better and get more information about what motivates us and other people.”