MC531 Interactive Cultures

MC531 Interactive Cultures

Oliver Carter  //  I am a lecturer, author and researcher in media and cultural theory at the Birmingham School of Media, Birmingham City University. I am currently completing my PhD on the political economy of Euro-Cult cinema fan production.

Dec 3 / 5:08am
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This week I have been trying to watch they way in which youths use their mobile phone, but whilst doing this I realised that there isn't that much difference between some of todays  youths and some of todays adults. Whilst I was at work this week there were about three adults that I had to serve whilst they were having a seperate conversation on their mobile. There was also a woman I noticed that had Beyonce as her ring tone which is something I associated with the young people and thought it was something you grew out of!   However there are some things which only youths do such as play their music so EVERYONE can hear it at the back of the bus for example, where it annoys you even more because you can't get away from it. They also seem to have it out at all times and then look at the screen every ten seconds waiting for that all important text. When they do recieve a text they also have to tell everyone so they seem loved.   There are some traits that I recognise from when I was young but I do feel that I have grown out of them now, such as texting someone in the same room as you or changing the covers on your phone, I do feel that is because of the quality of phones that we have now as well.