A Graceful Perspective

As a child of the digital world I am an avid user of digital media. Whether it is my phone, laptop, or TV it is part of my day consistently. Yet, as a school assignment I had to go a whole day without any of these. Sadly, I did have to include use of my computer to work on assignments though, as I am a college student and it is toward the end of the term in school. I choose a day on the weekend, when I didn’t work, so I could stay home, since I rely on my phone for transit, as well as scheduling. I woke up without an alarm, and felt rested, because for the first time since I could remember I got the amount of sleep that I needed. Then I walked my dog. I could not listen to music and tune out the world. I was able to hear so much more. When I got home and settled down to do some homework, and with a cup of coffee and music playing aloud from my home speakers I was ready to get work done. Usually I would take small breaks from work on social media, or playing a video game; Instead, I pl...

Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village theory states that greater availability of connection created by increasing communication technology causes a sociological phenomenon of cultures becoming smaller as they bond together. At the time McLuhan was alluding to the early development of the computer, but his theory is still applicable to the status of cultures in the modern world. The development of social media technologies gives the users access to social or informational contact at a finger's reach, resulting in extremes of McLuhan’s theory. Cultures are interchanged every second through the internet, which cultivates its own culture entirely, mirroring the effect McLuhan predicted. Thus making an individual’s cultural identity reliant on their own intersectional connection to others on their device rather than those around them. This conjoining of cultures is socially isolating, because even though there are connections being made, there is a severe lack of in-person connection i...

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