Mobile Phones Has Revolutionized The Way Americans Live
There are multiple technologies that have appeared in the past half century, but most
importantly these technologies have revolutionized the way Americans live. We ve
spent time researching and exploring their beginnings, as well as where they ve taken
us today. Today, there are ever evolving systems manufactured for the purpose of
communication, specifically mobile telephones. Mobile phones, better known as cell
phones are constantly advancing to incorporate the new needs and desires of users
with functions including, high speed internet, touch screens, apps, Bluetooth,
calendars, etc. An app called GroupMe A home for All the Groups in Your life,
allows connections between families, friends, roommates, co workers, and in this
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To establish co presence the actors must acknowledge the other actors by engaging
in conversation through a long set of procedures. Texting is useful when you re
only talking to one person, but when there are several persons involved, using
GroupMe becomes efficient, fast and easy. My teammates and I use GroupMe and
regardless of where we re located, we re within immediate reach of each other
through an electronic communications network. By definition, corporeal
telecopresence is a form of human colocation in which both individuals are present
in person at their local sites, but they are located in each other s electronic proximity
rather than physical proximity (Zhao, 2003, pg. 447), which is what takes place
when my teammates and I are in communication through the use of GroupMe. When
I first started the group for my teammates, the users that had already had the app
downloaded received a notification that they ve been added into the group UAFH
2014 , thus could use the app immediately to communicate. Those who didn t have
the app downloaded received a different notification from GroupMe, which was still
allowing them to be a part of the group, but their notifications were sent through a text
message. This is because GroupMe works as an instrumental social bot that provides
automated responses. There are modes of copresence in which human interaction
takes place that all contribute to the sense of copresence being constructed. These
modes include, embodiment,