I have previously blogged about the television show, Kell on Earth. Specifically during one episode the women who work for Cutrone are all out to eat sitting at a dinner table. Instead of talking to each other they’re all on their blackberries. Kelly even makes a comment about how they look extremely bitchy and over obsessed with work and that is the reason that no men go up and talk to them. The article, Cellphones in public: social interactions in a wireless era, goes onto explore the actions of Cutrone and her crew as well as the rest of society. The article discusses people doing research on the effects of technology and social interactions post the growth of cell phones. Two perspectives are demonstrated through their research: “How social norms of interaction in public spaces change and remain the name and how cell phones become markers for social relations and reflect tacit pre-existing power relations.”
The behaviors discussed in this study are extremely valid today. The article asked, “How do these technologies change people and their social relations?” In the previously read the article it also about how different personalities use cell phones in social relations.
One of the most valid points that the article made was that, “despite social rules against eavesdropping, observations and interviews indicate that eavesdropping was a fairly common practice among people whose partners were on their cell phone.” This sentence definitely caught my eye considering one of our most recent assignments was to listen on the other people’s telephone conversations during the week. The website that was shown during class with that sign referencing someone’s inappropriate conversation proved that people typically do ease drop despite being aware that it is frowned upon.
The sociological terms defined by the study were most definitely accurate. While I was reading I couldn’t believe how on point everything they wrote was. When it came to discussing ‘cross talk’ and how to handle talking to a person on the phone while still interacting with the person in front of you I was laughing to myself thinking of how I have done all of those things. It was strange to think of how there truly is an etiquette to dealing with that type of social situation and how everyone just picks up on how to comply with it.
The study according to Goffman stating that “there are two types of individuals in public spaces: people who are alone and people who are with other people. ‘Singles’ and ‘Withs.’” It was interesting to put a term with the types because everyone has been a ‘single’ or a ‘with’ and one point and reacted in the exact manner that the study explained. The explanation of when a conversation where ‘one member of a ‘with’ momentarily sustains exclusive talk with someone who is not in the ‘With.’ This may result in the other person in the ‘With’ feeling awkward and exposed,“ also really made me realize how I have been in that same situation before. This study made it so clear how people act in social situations. The article also said, “People often feel awkward when their former partner is engaged in an exclusive interaction. As a result, people often engage in activities to bide their time until their partner gets off the phone.” This proved that when people do act in social situations, they rely on their cell phone as a back up way if interaction is interrupted or not running the way it had planned.
I think everyone point they made was just so alarmingly true. Something they didn’t talk about was people’s use of their cell phone as a gaming device. For the most part the article talked about how people use their phone in social interactive situations but it can also be used as entertainment during boredom if a personal does have a game on their phone. As for cheating I have never seen or heard of people using their cell phones to do so in college. I know that in high school people used the notepad on their iPods to copy notes and cheat off of that if the teacher allowed them to listen to their iPods during the exam. There was also a time that I knew of people texting the A, B, C answers to someone to a scantron exam, but again I have not seen any of that in college.
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