Private Space = Public Space ?

Since smartphone has arisen, it assists us in daily life. For example, we can use the compass in the phone when we get lost; also we can take notes though the memorandum app. We can use our smartphone to solve our daily problem and make thing easier.

As the growth of the mobile technologies, the deeper blur has derived between our private and public space. Before smartphone occurred, if us did not know how to get somewhere, we could stop to ask a stranger. But now the Google map can get us there, it reduces communication between people.

Otherwise when we at home which is our private space before smartphone occurred. And now we would share our “home life” to social media such as the moment of making a dinner. Also we now have some ‘group chat’ platform for us to communicate with friends just like we hang out with them for updating our life, but lower physical interaction with friends.

Communication is a vital thing for a society. It was always one of the key roles of public spaces, observing and exchanging with the other. Because smart phones are supplying so many of these services, this kind of exchange with others is just diminished to almost zero.”


Student Name: Ma Shun Hei