Mobile media from mobile phones to smartphones to other
smart technology are transforming our daily lives. We communicate, we discover,
we network, we play, and much more using our mobile devices. I feel Farman’s
explanation is perfectly correct that mobile technologies are taking over our
lives. In Mobile Interface Theory, Jason Farman establishes how the worldwide implementation
of mobile technologies is causing a reconsideration of the core ideas about
what it means to live our average lives. He argues that mobile media's
pervasive calculating model, which allows users to connect and interact with
the internet while affecting across a wide variety of localities, has shaped a new
sense of self among users a new embodied identity that branches from virtual
space and material space regularly enhancing, cooperating or disturbing each
other. On this I can relate to the Facebook check-ins on where you are
currently. Exploring a range of mobile media practices including mobile maps and GPS technologies,
location-aware social networks, urban and alternate reality games that use
mobile devices, performance art, and storytelling projects Farman illustrates
how mobile technologies are altering the ways we produce lived, embodied
spaces.
I definitely agree with your analysis here. Cell phones have completely changed our generation's culture on what it means to be "connected," whether it be to our landscape, our environment, or our family and friends through virtual reality. I don't necessarily think all the effects from this cultural shift are negative, but a lot of people have definitely lost sight of what it means to be apart of a community.
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