[Air-l] Re: SMS

[jeremy hunsinger]

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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