Monday, September 15, 2008

Project Idea: the beginning

I’m a little late at putting up my topic but better late than never I guess. So I was thinking about what to do and was coming up short in the ideas department but then my mother calls me. She’s taking a few classes this semester and for one of her class projects, she has to do an internet research. My mother has never been the internet whiz kind of person so at one point she suggested that I do the research and mail it to her.
That idea didn’t go so well with me so I decided to coach her through it on the phone. Anyways the point is that she didn’t grow up with computers and so she’s not very enthusiastic about learning how to now. That’s when I got my idea for the paper. I want to compare the use of digital culture from where I was born and raised to where I’m at right now. I’m hoping to draw from experiences as to how I got from using a computer whenever I went to go visit my cousins ( which was every once in a blue moon) to going insane without my laptop for a weekend ( it’s sad but true).

1 comment:

mountainmomma said...

I am really the same way when it comes to being far away from technology. My blackberry has allowed me to be more connected then I ever was before, and I can not decide if that is a good ro bad thing. I hate to be without my laptop and if I had to travel without it I would probably go into withdraws. Is this a good or bad thing? I am not sure, but it is well worth exploring. Especially when I see so many people who are resistant or could care less about technology. I email me dad and it takes him weeks to respond because he never checks his email. I could not imagine that. I check my email variuos times a day, and again I can't decide if that is a good thing or dangerous.