Disconnected Documentary Analysis

Disconnected is about three college students who choose give up their computer for a documentary. Some key aspects of the documentary are how attached our society is to computers and the internet in general, even in 2007. Our culture is heavily reliant on technology to help them get through our daily lives. It is basically a requirement for professional communication, school, and even to access to other older forms of media such as books and old articles and diagrams.
Those ideas were made especially obvious when the students were reluctant to store away their computers. Repeatedly putting the task off, despite having voluntarily entered the project. A huge result of the project was when the students realized how insignificant their internet pastimes were. The things they thought were so important, such as email and facebook, became uninteresting, white noise. Yet, What the lack of computer access affected significantly was their school work and hobbies. Especially when it came to art.
Chapter one of the textbook outlines how mass media was defined at a time where everyone would watch the same show and see the same information. However, although people use the same platforms, their social experience is very limited and isolated. The students all had email and Facebook, and they were afraid to miss out on something important, yet, by the end, they realized that they really didn’t miss anything. Their emails, that they normally would have paid attention to, became clutter because they were irrelevant to their friends and school life. The same idea applies to Facebook: nothing really changed. Mass media was something that brought America together and it was an essential and beneficial aspect of our culture. Yet, is no longer exists on the