We have been given our groups for PB4 this week. But before we were able to work on that, we were given a workshop exercise for us to work through.
We had to conduct an interview with each other on why we like the RMIT city campus location. One of the constraints was recording the interviewee “interacting” with the environment during the interview. I found this particular task to be a little difficult while working with the medium of sound. Obviously in a video, thats an easy thing to do. But without visual clues its difficult to convey to the audience a person interacting with a university through sound, especially when you can’t use spoken word, because they are already talking, as they are answering the interview questions.
After we recorded our interview, we started to discuss our topic. We landed on the idea that we would explore social media/multiple media streams/multi tasking and its impact on the attention span/cognitive function/information retention of youth. Its a topic that is quite relevant to us, considering we are young people who use social media frequently.
Once I started researching the topic, I found a lot of it quite relatable. Even while just searching for articles that outline how bad multi tasking is for us, I was multi tasking by opening several tabs for searches, and simultaneously checking those. Also I was continuously checking my phone in between searches loading. I’d never really thought about the impact of multi tasking on my ability for information retention and how it affects my attention span, but its very noticeable almost immediately.
I think my initiative post will explore the impact of this on internet based content further.