Is this media related or me talking about my love life?
A gentleman caller has asked me to watch a documentary with him. Since it beats pulling out my eyeballs just yet over my senior seminar, i have happily conceded. This film has mystery, intrigue, and looks like peoples faces get blown off in some of the footage. The title? Naqoyqatsi. Meaning, "life as war".
I googled a quick wiki synopsis, and the film is about how humans have moved from a natural environment to a completely virtual one. Since this is a media studies class, and I nothing outside of the virtual world, as far as i can see, constitutes as media, i thought it relevant!
How do you feel living in a digital world? Connecting with thumbnails of people you may or may not have seen in the flesh? In a way, it's liberating. You can touch base with friends faster, you can download all of your media in an instant. You can even go grocery shopping online.
The importance of knowledge is nothing to take lightly, and the internet, if nothing else, is a wealth of information. But somewhere, i think we forgot what it means to be human. To feel grass under your toes, to create something without posting it, to be alone.
I get anxious when i'm not by my phone. If my computer is in the shop, I am permanently crabby until it is restored. And I'm what you might call a light user of technology. I'm not on facebook and i rarely watch shows online. But still i feel that need to be connected at all times.
Is that natural or am I a product of the digital era? How will this influence digital natives?
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