Mobile
technologies are becoming part of our life. The function of this device is not
only contact others now. People can do lots of things by this device. Especially
people like to present themselves by the mobile applications. Today I want to
focus on how people use the mobile technologies to present themselves.
People
will upload some photo or video on these mobile applications platform like Instagram
and 17 to share their lives to others. According to The Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life, every people have the private space and public space. Private
space is the thing that is the informal self. And the public space is the
formal self or formal activities.
But the
mobile technologies are blurring the boundary of Private and Public space. For example,
people use 17 to broadcast their lives to others. The most serious things are
some of them will broadcast they are having bath, or sexual activities to others.
That mean they are presenting their informal selves to the public space. And it
is the example of mobile technologies are burring the boundary of private space
and public space.
I think it will cause negative effect to people’s everyday life. It will cause the Internet crime like cyber bulling. For example, some people upload some picture about him or her. But we don’t know what will other do against this picture. Here is an example of a Chinese mainlander upload a selfie and then download by others. And people share this photo and start cyber bully to this man. So I think blurring of the boundary will arouse people do more this kind of Internet crime. So it is not good for people everyday’s life.
I think it will cause negative effect to people’s everyday life. It will cause the Internet crime like cyber bulling. For example, some people upload some picture about him or her. But we don’t know what will other do against this picture. Here is an example of a Chinese mainlander upload a selfie and then download by others. And people share this photo and start cyber bully to this man. So I think blurring of the boundary will arouse people do more this kind of Internet crime. So it is not good for people everyday’s life.
Student name: Law Hoi Yin Billy
Reference
News of a Taiwanese couple boardcast their sexual intercoure to others. http://www.ettoday.net/news/20150903/559555.htm
Dear Billy, The discussion is fine here. You may want to make it clearer when you say technology blurs the boundary of private space and public space. Your definition and examples are more about how the personal/private sphere are now exposed to the public for srutinisation. So presentation of self is alright here but the application of 'blurring of boundaries' needs to be fine tuned.
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