Going Going Going?

The blank face of a commuter often says so little about their personality. I find myself becoming infatuated by their mysterious blank faces with those famous white cords hanging from their ears. How many hidden punks or classic jazz fans hide behind their melancholy faces while secretly having a party with their tapping toes?

How much could I find out about these strangers just by looking at their screens? "Exposing a Ipod Screen to an observer can make an otherwise private device a potential broadcaster of one's taste" (Levy, 2006).

Raymond (1974)  discusses unified social intake, by stating portable media devices have allowed social networking, Ipods and downloading to become mobile privitasiation. We design our own world through new media. We now have endless amounts of choices, We can download, upload, steam, buy, tweet and chase whatever genre of entertainment we seek and all while never taking our eyes off our Iphones. If we only ever need the internet to connect whats going to happen to all the other mediums? This is a question that clouds my future in the film industry. The Indian Film Industry is already pushing for  a preferred online distribution for  it's Bollywood films (Singh, 2008). So like radio or television will going to the cinema also be a thing of the past? I really hope not. 

References:

Levy, S. (2006). The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture and Coolness, New York: Simon & Schuster, pp. 21-41. Available on www.blackboard.edu.qut.au

Singh, M. (2008).  Bollywood's Viral Video in Time International (Canada Edition), Vol. 171, Issue 14 . Available online at:http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1713342,00.html 

Williams R, 1974, p. 21. Retrieved from Week three lecture slides, Available on www.blackboard.edu.qut.au