In pre-modern society (as told to us by our lecturer) people socially interacted and experienced others company through face to face interactions, direct experience and watching it for yourself. Nowadays, the modern society as we know it interacts through media text such as maps, books, newspapers, magazines. Also lengthening the scope, people use technology such as phones, computers and the internet to share experiences and transmit new news. Is the world slowly becoming blind to the facet of social communication.

Once i asked myself this question, it made me think of the film “While We’re Young” directed by Noah Baumbach. This film is loosely about how the younger students use older generation (pre-modern society) technology to communicate to each other, and then the older adults that are used to the ‘face to face experiences’ learn about the modern society technology. I remember one of the characters once say “Its like their apartment is full of everything that we once threw out, but it looks so good the way they have it”. Its a testament that the pre-modernism population want to use the modern society technology, and the younger individuals want to use the pre-modern technology. You may be wondering were this fits within social communication. Well it shows that social communication is becoming more diverse, but at the same time its becoming inverted and some people dont know where all of this stuff is going…