On or off campus, students have the same amount of access to social media and are undeterred in their quest to stay connected to people. 3G and 4G networks are pulsing with activity on campus as well as the wireless networks located sporatically throughout campus. People want to stay consistently connected even while they are with people they would normally be communicating with via some network. However, in reference to digital technologies, students do not have as much access off campus as they do on campus. The Avery Lab is an example of a conglomerate of digital technologies that no student would ever have access to off campus, possibly in the rare chance they find a cyber cafe but of course Pullman has none of those.
Social media and digital technologies make daily life remarkably more efficient for students. The Daily Evergreen, while still printing, has the same issues online for those that either have one preference or another. Sports and entertainent events can advertise through The Daily Green in the print and online versions as well as on their individual Facebook pages that students will undoubtedly follow. Going beyond social media, digital technologies such as cameras, placed in particular areas around campus, can act as crime deterrents. At least having a camera there will be better than not and is hopefully aid in capturing the most recent assault on the professor outside of Mike's bar.
Social media and digital technologies make daily life remarkably more efficient for students. The Daily Evergreen, while still printing, has the same issues online for those that either have one preference or another. Sports and entertainent events can advertise through The Daily Green in the print and online versions as well as on their individual Facebook pages that students will undoubtedly follow. Going beyond social media, digital technologies such as cameras, placed in particular areas around campus, can act as crime deterrents. At least having a camera there will be better than not and is hopefully aid in capturing the most recent assault on the professor outside of Mike's bar.
Your post reminds me a lot of the things I discussed in my own post. It is pretty incredible what a wide and sweeping effect social media and digital technologies can have on a region such as the WSU campus. Several years ago a camera on campus might not worry many people considering accessing and using this data to recognize someone could be tough. Yet today, even fake cameras are a crime deterant because everyone uses digital and social media and is aware how easily a photo could identify them using social media sites they mgiht be subscribed to. Digital media has revolutionized almost every area of our culture and I have no doubt it will continue to do so for generations to come.
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