likewise, today i saw what i thought might be my first 5x media usage. I was passing through the bridge on a library here, we have an open networking area, and i glanced to the side to see a young gentleman's screen who appeared to have his cell phone and headset going as he was talking quietly into it, a book propped up on his keyboard, a video going on the screen that i could not make out in passing, a webpage in the background, and a chat system which looked like yahooim in the foreground, so he could glance up from the book, catch the video and the chat, and go back reading and typing simultaneously while talking on his cellphone. I consider myself fairly media adept, reading, while chatting on irc, watching videos and writing, etc., I might get to 3 or 4 textual arenas if i am coding or the like, but by adding the video and having the phone going just shocked me. has anyone seen similar things? i know campuses are probably a limit experience in some cultural settings, but at what level does plural mediations go beyond immersion? and how do we tell when something like 5 media environments is immersive to any particular person? On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 02:17 PM, Merlyna Lim wrote:
Asian youngsters are so fluent in SMS-ing. Now ICQ also has a program to send SMS. It's so common to send SMS from ICQ to cell-phone and vice versa. Recently, I see some youngsters in Indonesia typing messages in ICQ from their computers in Internet-cafes while receiving SMS from their cell-phones.
interesting stuff for research!
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