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English 231! A Semester in Review By Maddi Stanton (Module 1:Introduction…
English 231! A Semester in Review
By Maddi Stanton
Module 1:Introduction to new Media
Module 2: A brief history of the Smartphone
Disembodied experience
"knowledge is not only easy everyone knows so much more”. (Lynch 4)
The Mind
Knowing verses Google Knowing
Today the internet is " easy, fast, yet dependant on others" (Lynch, 25)
Tools of the mind
Module 3: Habit Making Devices
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The Marvel App
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Technological Determinism
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Social Shaping of technology
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Key Authors: Lynch, Moore, Kurtzwell, Kranzberg, and Lightman
What is new Media?
How Technology relates to Culture?
Technological determinism
reductionnist theory
Social shaping of technology
Theorists: Mcluhan and Flew
Mindfulness Blog
Blog 1: I took the Smartphone Compulsion test and Scored a 5. According to the test that means "It is likely that [I] may have a problematic or compulsive Smartphone use pattern." I do not think this accurately described my phone usage habits
Blog Post 2: Using the space app, I estimate I am using my phone around 3 hours per day, which is honestly less than I expected it to be. That being said it looks like I unlock my phone around 40 times per day which is over 10 times per hour of use. This makes sense considering I mainly use my phone for correspondence and thus I respond to notifications and then turn it back off till the next one.
Blog Post #3: My favorite apps can fall into a few different groups. For Work, For General Communication and For Play
Blog Post #4: It's been about 33 days with this Space app. So far everything is going roughly as expected, though I am still bothered by having to turn it on every time I turn on my phone because I sometimes forget first thing in the morning, or after restarting my phone, causing my data to be off. But at the very least it should still be a good approximation. As of now, I don't seem to have a schedule for my phone use.
Blog post 5: This week's prompt is to decrease your phone usage by implementing parts of a 12 step plan. With all due respect, I will not be doing this. I am very very comfortable with my level of phone use, and I find this level necessary to do my jobs effectively. Instead, i will be reviewing certain steps of the 12 step program and qualifying them into how I manage my personal phone use to my satisfaction.
Blog Post #6: For this entry we were challenged to "Try leaving your smartphone at home in your dorm room for an entire day."
Blog Post #7: For this blog we were instructed to do a mindfulness meditation from a site called mindful. I really tried my best with this meditation, but in the 10 minutes I devoted to it I didn't get much out of it. It felt weird holding my phone and trying to meditate and it felt weird having my eyes open. I prefer to meditate in a closed off space, eyes closed, sitting or lying comfortable, and usually associated with my yoga. So sitting and holding my phone and staring at it was not my ideal head space. It wasn't bad, just weird.
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