Week 13

This week we briefly talked about advertising and mobile media.

We answered the following questions,

How much do you spend on communications?

I only usually use my phone for text/calls and facebook n my laptop.

Time; I usually am on facebook for about 20 minutes every day and maybe spend 10 minutes texting or phoning. This is all on average.

Power; Power of keeping my laptop and phone charged up is all.

Money; ~$20 a month for internet but facebook is a tiny portion of that, same goes for phone which would be another $20/month probably.

How does technology shape communication?

Gives you more choice in what you can do. Everything becomes simpler, easier.

How do companies shape communication?

Unfortunately companies like to use communications technologies to advertise so communications is quickly becoming a very commercial technology.

The iPhone is a good example, Apple has completely revolutionized the way people think about mobiles because it becomes so much more than that.