EM 500
Reading Response 6
Bochao Sun
Oct. 14, 2017
According to Bogost, the technology of telephone evolves over the recent decades. In terms of the design of telephony devices, the Western Electric model 500 in the 20th century prevails with people’s operation on agronomic handsets and dials. That experience brings along a sensation of intimacy between two people over the phone despite long distance, as well as limits noise pollution and increases privacy. However, the presence of mobile phones, as alternative of landline telephones, makes such devices perfect to carry around but awful to talk through. The hidden speakers and microphones in physically thinned and flattened devices deprive the feeling of being connected with someone else, …show more content…
Technologies has become social actors as people in the experiment naturally respond to ringing on their iPhone as if the devices themselves are calling people’s names from very close distance. You will feel anxious when you are not allowed to respond to others who would like to start a conversation with you. From the perspective of Apparatgeist, the study explains how technology invented by human in turn influences human behavior. Mobile phone were created for the need of portable telecommunication (and further developed with much more communication functions), but people are so “tethered” to it that they will feel disconnected with the rest of the world without the …show more content…
For example, the most-widely used feature on smartphones in the US is texting, while that in China should be Internet, followed by making calls and taking pictures. Older people in both US and China tend to make more voice calls that youngsters do.
When it comes to location, it is quite common for young adults in both countries to get absorbed in their devices when they are taking public transit and waiting in line to kill time, while using smartphones at work in China, especially messaging and social networking, is likely to be regarded as distraction and sneaking off. I don’t think Chinese people spend as much time on smartphones as Americans do at home. Instead, they may switch to TVs, desktops and tablets with larger screens than smartphones. Their smartphones may be charging or downloading videos for the users to watch away from
Reading Response 6
Bochao Sun
Oct. 14, 2017
According to Bogost, the technology of telephone evolves over the recent decades. In terms of the design of telephony devices, the Western Electric model 500 in the 20th century prevails with people’s operation on agronomic handsets and dials. That experience brings along a sensation of intimacy between two people over the phone despite long distance, as well as limits noise pollution and increases privacy. However, the presence of mobile phones, as alternative of landline telephones, makes such devices perfect to carry around but awful to talk through. The hidden speakers and microphones in physically thinned and flattened devices deprive the feeling of being connected with someone else, …show more content…
Technologies has become social actors as people in the experiment naturally respond to ringing on their iPhone as if the devices themselves are calling people’s names from very close distance. You will feel anxious when you are not allowed to respond to others who would like to start a conversation with you. From the perspective of Apparatgeist, the study explains how technology invented by human in turn influences human behavior. Mobile phone were created for the need of portable telecommunication (and further developed with much more communication functions), but people are so “tethered” to it that they will feel disconnected with the rest of the world without the …show more content…
For example, the most-widely used feature on smartphones in the US is texting, while that in China should be Internet, followed by making calls and taking pictures. Older people in both US and China tend to make more voice calls that youngsters do.
When it comes to location, it is quite common for young adults in both countries to get absorbed in their devices when they are taking public transit and waiting in line to kill time, while using smartphones at work in China, especially messaging and social networking, is likely to be regarded as distraction and sneaking off. I don’t think Chinese people spend as much time on smartphones as Americans do at home. Instead, they may switch to TVs, desktops and tablets with larger screens than smartphones. Their smartphones may be charging or downloading videos for the users to watch away from