Week 8 Website 5 Digital Imigration

This report start off my describing the kind of daily interaction a digital native has with technology. Emily Field a twenty year old university student is used as an example she is shaped by digiatl technology and spends most of her time in the digital universe of websites, emails, text meassages and mobile phone calls.
Every day she gets up in the morning and strate away checks her mobile phone for text meassages or missed calls, then goes to her computer and checks her emails and the social networking site Facebook which connects millions if university students to see if anybody has written on her wall. She then browses around the internet goin on different websites looking at news articles. Then she uploads the iTunes page to see if any of her subscribed podcasts have come in. The other day when she went to meet her friend she had forgotten her mobile phone so travelled five miles back to go and get it. She couldn't live without her mobile phone with her she felt completely lost and panicked she needs it on her at all times.
Technology is an essential part of her everyday social and academic life. 'I don’t know where I’d be without it. In fact, I’ve never really been without it.' This is what makes her a digiatl native somebody who has never known aworl without instant communication.
Whereas on the other hand her mother, Christine is a “digital immigrant”, still coming to terms with a culture ruled by the ring of a mobile and the zip of e-mails.

The report goes on to describe many studies from different theorists. Lord Saatchi claims that digital technology is changing the way people absorb information. The digital native’s brain is physically different as a result of the digital input it has received growing up.
Dr Anders Sandberg evidence suggests people are becoming more visual than verbal. Some people are claiming that once computers gain good language understanding and you can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome.
Helen Petrie states that the sheer mass of visual, auditory and verbal information in the modern world is forcing digital natives to make choices that those who grew up with only books and television did not.