{"id":127,"date":"2008-06-05T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T03:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-06-05T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T04:01:25","slug":"sociologist-rich-ling-has-an-answer-for-why-people-talk-on-their-cell-phones-in-movie-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/06\/05\/sociologist-rich-ling-has-an-answer-for-why-people-talk-on-their-cell-phones-in-movie-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociologist Rich Ling has an answer for why people talk on their cell phones in movie theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/files\/2008\/06\/movietheater.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/files\/2008\/06\/movietheater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/man-at-his-best\/cell-phones-0608\">Esquire Magazine<\/a> featured an article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/man-at-his-best\/cell-phones-0608\">Why the F%$# Do People Talk on Cell Phones at the Movies?<\/a>&#8221; and solicited commentary from sociologist Rich Ling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Response No. 1, <\/strong>by Rich Ling, sociologist and author of <em>New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion<\/em>: There\u2019s a mismatch between people\u2019s understanding of what\u2019s going on around them and their need to be in touch with other people. When someone calls you or texts you, it\u2019s a random positive reinforcement, a little gift. &#8216;Somebody\u2019s noticing me and that makes me feel important.&#8217; Being noticed by other people is a real narcotic. You have to weigh the importance of your social life with your involvement in the collective film-watching experience. We need a balance between appropriate use and tolerant expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Esquire Magazine featured an article entitled &#8220;Why the F%$# Do People Talk on Cell Phones at the Movies?&#8221; and solicited commentary from sociologist Rich Ling. &#8220;Response No. 1, by Rich Ling, sociologist and author of New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication is Reshaping Social Cohesion: There\u2019s a mismatch between people\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,129,161,117],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-media","tag-social","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}