PD Findings
From MediaFranca
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Session 1
Neighborhood Academy students. The exercise was about mapping their social networks, showing where technology was playing a role and where there was room for improvement in human relationships.
- Critical thoughts about how much teenagers use/depend on their cell phones
- Family and closer friends are contacted physically (no mediating technology)
- Main tools: IM, e-mail, MySpace, Tagged
- Waste time doing nothing at the park because
- Transportation is a big problem (lack of independence)
- Very restricted space due to lack of transportation
- cell phone is more intimate than email (close friends v/s just friends)
- there is a friend category called associates: "people that I just know".
- Sometimes we contact with our family through e-mail (which is not so good) because we loose real contact
- Its harder to older generations to understand new communication dynamics with new technology, therefore they are left beside.
- look for people in the web (social voyeurism), leave messages and request new "friends" (just friends).
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Session 2
CMU Freshmen (Electric and Mechanical engineering)
- Live is extremely compartmentalized
- Not really moving through the city, just living in a very small circuit
- consumption of porn on a daily routine
- simultaneousness of TV-homework-laptop (multitasking)
- SensibleElection for news and porn SensibleErection where you can find "smart Internet dorks". You could use to go to Flacid.SensibleErenction for filtered porn, now called Filtered.SensibleErenction.
- While surfing the web there are:
- lots of people I don't like
- Internet "friends"
- Really no off-campus life
- hanging out in the form of drinking and dancing
- Comedy central, preferred TV show
- ipod is on constantly
- DIGG is a place to read the news
- IM + porn
- Waking up is a pain (all red lines)
- connecting to people is the first thing to do in the morning
- school and computer is almost the same
- absorbed by school work
- lost contact with: (it's not hard to do, but I don't do it)
- keeping track of time
- dealing with money
- reading the news
- CNN to read the news, but not often
- basically email and talk to people
- computer first thing in the morning: check email
- waste 1 hour or two in facebook in the morning
- homework + Internet is very distracting
- FaceBook is a source for digression
- people try not to use too much technology because it's an isolating factor
- technology is less personal
- Public transit system closes early and we don't have a car
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Needs
- More people that I'm more similar to
- Car is a big need, transportation in general
- Freshmen are not allowed to have a car
- Lack of leisure time
