The Mobile Family Gallery? Gender, Memory and the Cameraphone: Anna Reading
Summary
The article by Anna Reading, The Mobile Family Gallery, talked about how we were using mobile devices as personal diaries and galleries for the storage of memories and future endeavors. In her article, she compares camera phones to diaries, since we take countless photographs day after day of random items and faces, and forward them to a community of friends. The friends that receive the messages are creating memories along with the photographer, and are contributing to the power of technology. She compares the use of mobile devices as a diary- it contains all of the personal information of an individual, such as birthdays, addresses, phone numbers, pictures, and notes to oneself that if this device were to be lost, it would be comparable to amnesia: a total loss of their memory.
Reaction
I agree with Reading completely. Many people do not commit any specific dates to memory, but yet store every ounce of information into their phones, or PDAs. Their phones are their lifelines. Our memories are being changed into conceptual ideas, where our memories are more than just a thought; they are committed to actual things within our technological accessories. If these were lost, we would lose ourselves, a sense of time and feel lost.
Relationship
This article relates to Carr’s Is Google Making Us Stupid? because both authors discuss the changes that are occurring to our brains and our ways of thinking. Each author discusses how we are altering what we used to know, believe and the way we remember and are replacing it with new, more inventive and controlling technology. With this technology we are becoming engrossed and entranced, we are refusing to commit specific ideas and experiences to memory- we conceptualize dates, information and numbers.
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