{"id":4074,"date":"2013-03-12T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&p=4074"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:37:48","slug":"jk-not-dead-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2013\/03\/12\/jk-not-dead-lol\/","title":{"rendered":"jk not dead!!! lol"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Barry Wellman and Lee Rainie, <\/span>“If Romeo and Juliet Had Mobile Phones,” Mobile Media & Communication<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2013<\/span><\/div>\n
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For those who don\u2019t enjoy dramatic irony, too many books and movies provoke that frustrated question: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they just talk to each other?\u201d Entire plot lines that hinge on only a few words of missed dialogue have been the backbone of classic comedies and dramas for centuries, but now modern technology may be making this literary device just too… unbelievable.<\/p>\n

Wellman and Rainie, writing in the first issue of the new journal Mobile Media & Communication<\/em>,\u00a0illustrate this shift with a creative new twist on an old classic. What if Romeo and Juliet, those unfortunate teens who just<\/em> missed each other in the end, had cell phones? Instead of talking through their feuding families, they could have just texted, maybe avoiding (spoiler alert!) the whole suicide mess.<\/p>\n

Using research from their book Networked: The New Social Operating System<\/a><\/em>, the authors argue that mobile phones and other portable communication devices have ushered in an era of \u201cnetworked individualism.\u201d We connect as individuals and share everything, down to our geographical location. The star-crossed lovers couldn\u2019t even dream of satellite technology, but they were still pioneering individual networking by meeting alone, in secret, instead of involving their families to court each other formally. Even a decade ago, you\u2019d have to call your paramour\u2019s \u201chome phone,\u201d and maybe even talk to their parents.<\/p>\n

Today a quick text makes individual socializing that much easier and more efficient, but it may also radically shift communication through our closest social groups. In our social lives and our dramatic writing, how much longer will we be able to believe people just didn\u2019t get the message?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barry Wellman and Lee Rainie, “If Romeo and Juliet Had Mobile Phones,” Mobile Media & Communication, 2013 For those who don\u2019t enjoy dramatic irony, too many books and movies provoke that frustrated question: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they just talk to each other?\u201d Entire plot lines that hinge on only a few words of missed dialogue have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[950,14907,295],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-communication","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-social-networks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}