Christine Rosen And Disconnected Urbanism Analysis

We are all heading down a bad path with cell phones and technology. In 1987 the cell phone was first introduced to Hollywood, it was a symbol of success. Only the rich and famous had a phone, but today almost everyone in America owns one. With the use of cell phone and technology our interpersonal communication skills are breaking down.
The purpose of these essays is to inform people about the dangers of cell phone use. Not that the cell phones are physical dangerous, but a warning of the effects on human behavior. As I began reading the essays “Our Cell Phones, Our Selves, by Christine Rosen and Disconnected Urbanism by Paul Golderger, I knew which direction the authors were heading. Within the first few sentences Christen Rosen, talks about how the cell phone is changing our behavior and how we are becoming disconnected with society. The authors achieved their goal by staying on the topic from start to finish describing how it is destroying interpersonal communication and the way it is eroding our society.
The intended audience on both the essays is anyone that would typically use a cell phone. Both essays have great information. I think of both as a warning sign for the youth to put the cell phone down for a minute. Christine Rosen, stated that the
youth are getting so attached to the phone that it is almost like a security blanket as if we a slowly reverting back into a childlike state. The biggest assumption is that people don’t know the damages that the phone can do. Most people think of the cell phone as just a convenience or as security. That is the whole point of the two essays, getting a message out to people all throughout the world.
Both authors bring a perspective of warning or information telling us that there is an issue.
They both feel there is a need to inform us of the dangers. Christine Rosen went as far a noise pollution or people becoming rude while dinning because of cell phones. I think she nailed it in the chapter absent without leave. I can relate to this even as small boy, my mom would be on the landline phone physically talking but no idea what I was doing. It has only gotten worse since the cell phone. Paul Golderger hits a great point when he states that “But the cell phone has changes our sense of place more than the faxes and computers and email because of its ability to intrude into every moment in every possible
place”.
The facts for both essays are on point. I have personally fact check some of the claims and everything is on point. Both authors are noted as being great writers. Paul Goldberger was an editor at Vanity Fair from 1997-2011 and an architecture critic for the New Yorker. He has also won an award in 1984 the Pulitzer Prize. Christine Rosen, she started her career as a historian and is now a senior editor of The New Atlantis. She has also written three books. They are both very strong writers and is shown throughout the two essays. “Our Cell Phones, Our Selves, started with the beginning of cell usage with great stats and hit on a few points of the greatness of the phones and then started instilling the psychological effect on all of us.
If we continue on the path that we a currently heading, we will all be in some big trouble socially. As I stated before I think both of the essays are warning us, or informing us the impact of cell phone usage. This is an issue that has been talked about for years. I don’t believe they wrote these essays because of only one event, the issue has been going on for years and it has been noticed, not by the masses but by the few. As technology with cell phones or social media gets faster and more imbedded into our life’s we will lose sight of how to interact with one another.