Mediated Communication

The advancement of technology has limited the ability to communicate non-verbally. Non-verbal communication is the main channel of communicating as it helps in expressing and interpreting others. It comprises of cues such as facial expressions, postures and gestures. Nowadays, people are using e-mails, texts and social networking sites to interact as well as express themselves. As in “Why Gen-Y Johnny Can’t Read Non-Verbal Cues,” Mark analyzes ,”We live in a culture where young people- outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another- are ever less likely to develop the “silent fluency” that comes from face-to-face interaction” (146). The disadvantage of using technology as a means to communicate with others is people tend to lose fluency in non-verbal cues, as a result misunderstand and offend others. Any number of emoticons used by people cannot measure their depth of their feelings. Non-Verbal aspect of communication should not be replaced by the advancement of

Cellphone and social media usage has been climbing in recent years. It is not uncommon to see people’s noses buried in their phone screens. According to Lulu Chang from Digital Trends, the average American spends 4.7 hours a day doing things on his or her phone. The average American also checks social media 17 times that same day.

As this article state about the cons of using modern ways of communication and lacking of feelings, I feel that at some extend, I agree with author’s opinion. As Jim Taylor points out, “Kids want to be hugged and touched; they don’t want to be texted. There’s basic need to fill that social bond” (Johnson, Chandra), this explains the truth. We can not always express the feelings of sympathetic and empathetic through texting or phone call. This modern technology did change our lifestyle. In addition, people do use texting or other messaging applications to avoid complications talks instead of talking to another person face to face and also create a language barrier between them.

My MacBook was my essential medium used throughout the day. I used it to Skype my family in England because they were missing America and our oleaginous fast food. I then spent some time on Facebook and started synchronously messaging some of my other cousins that live in LA. What’s interesting was that I was surfing the web at the same time trying to find out who was going to win between Alvarez and Golovkin. Does that make the communication asynchronous? Relatively, but I didn’t respond later than a minute. I then snapped a story trying to get the attention from my fellow snappers on who would win between these pugilists. In regards to my conversations, I only had one phone call on WhatsApp from my girlfriend and it lasted a brief 5 min.

After reading the chapters as well as the article assigned, my personal opinion to this is that

We used to connect face-to-face, and talk to people that we in seeing bars and cafes, and it would not seem uncanny, but now since we have the technology it made communication differences. Friends from far away are now connected with the use of the internet, the internet is a wonderful place to stay connected with family and friends, I use it to stay in contact with my friend Ray that’s going to Cal Poly. Nevertheless, sometimes it can be distracting while I’m hanging out with my cousins. Now we communicate through screens and it’s like a norm and we use social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and messaging to do all our “communicating”, but communicating from technology doesn’t show the person 's emotions “Studies show that only 7% of communication is based on the written or verbal word. A whopping 93% is based on nonverbal body language.” (Tardanico). Susan Tardanico experiences that when her daughter attempted suicide. She talked to her before the incident and to Susan she seemed happy but she couldn’t notice her body language and realize that she had depression. Communicating with, a person can only be from one way and that’s from face to face, talking because you can notice what’s happening with them when you 're using technology to talk to the person.

After monitoring my phone use for 4 weeks I learned a few things about myself. One, I use my phone way more than I ever suspected. Without consciously putting my phone down I spend a little over 4 hours on my device daily. That is a lot of time wasted in an 18-hour awake period. I questioned causes such high rate of phone usage. I kept track of hours I go to

In the textbook “Looking Out Looking In” authors Adler and Proctor state that “In today’s high-tech world, most people would agree that mediated communication is a valuable—even essential—tool for keeping in touch with coworkers, friends, families, and loved ones”(p. 34). I do accept this to a certain degree. However, children can be tremendously influenced by their cell phones, so we as adults need to be vigilant when dealing with youthful and impressionable minds. I never experienced the complications with my other children that I do with my youngest daughter Sophia.

My mom can be on her phone a lot but, she tries to regulate her time on it. She gets home at five and she’ll hang out with me and my brothers. When she gets a text or a call she will go outside and answer it. She’s a lawyer and sometimes her clients call and she needs to answer them. She watches the giants baseball game whenever it's on but, overall i think she is not a sceen addict.

In order to figure out how much time I spend using technology, I completed a two day tech diary. On the first day of the tech diary, I spent 7 hours and 47 minutes using technology or “ plugged in”. After the first day

Even though I was clearly occupied over those four hours, I still had urges to whip out of my phone, whenever we were waiting for something or when we went sight seeing.I really wanted to take pictures of the beach, or even listen to radio while we were driving to HSU. Throughout the tour I wanted to play Pokemon Go on their campus because I knew that there would be a lot of Pokestops. It was hard, but it opened my eyes. Even though I wanted those four hours to end, I still managed to go over 4 hours given that the tour ran longer than expected. Maybe this experiment will not persuade me to cut down the hours that I spend on electronics, but it gave me a nice perspective about how much we rely on electronics, and how much time we spend on them. Since our world revolves around e-media, I don't think that there is a solution of cutting off electronics, however we cutting down the hours we spend will likely improve our health, and will encourage us to stay

ii. However, for many of us, face-to-face communication seems to be a dying art – replaced by text messaging, e-mails, and social media. Human communication and interactions are shaped by available technologies

To further assess my cellphone usage and the impact that it is having on my life, I identified my ideal self, or what I want to happen in regards to my cellphone usage. In regards to my ideal cellphone usage, I would rather not be sending 1,680 text messages a month. I also would like to use my phone to call my family members more than I have in the past. In fact, the idea that I even have 40 applications on my phone seems a little ridiculous. Despite all my applications being free the idea that I have nearly 50 applications does not sit well with me. My ideal self would rather have 20 total applications, send about 30-40 text messages a day and call at least one family member a day. The amount of time I spend on Snapchat and Instagram makes me feel like I am addicted to these two applications and I do not like the feeling of that as well. I feel that with the advancement and speed of technology today, there is a loss of personal face to face communication. People would rather text somebody, then calling them to tell them to have a great day. Sometimes texting is the appropriate form of

Nonverbal messages consist of cues we send out with our bodies. It is very interesting how as a society that breathes Social media, we can have any real interactions. Conversing is not as prevent as it used to be, if you look around you will see that the majority of people are either emailing texting or doing something online. I really cannot speak to tweeting or creating Instagram’s. I do not do either, and people assume it is because of my age. It is not, I just find it tedious how there is no interaction anymore. I see women walking down the street looking at their phones, not aware of anything going on around them. That is so dangerous, your nonverbal message is “am here” and allowing the bad guy to rob me or god forbid anything worse.

It is very typical among people to forget about the many aspects involved in communication as a whole. Communication is in part the verbal content, but also in part the nonverbal content. It is the nonverbal content, however, that holds the importance of the message and the underlying meaning being translated. But as it is now the 21st century, we have blindly become part of a social media oriented culture. A culture in which we have the unlimited access to any and all social medias at our fingertips. A culture where we have become more connected to our virtually created lives rather than reality itself. We have become accustomed to communicating in a