My topic is about the use of mobile phone for older people. Well, mobile phone is part of life now. If you don’t agree with this idea then you can check your pocket or bag. Is your mobile phone there? Yes, we always bring our mobile phones and even we are late for the appointment with someone, we can send text message or just call directly and say. “I’m sorry but I will be late.” How easy it is!When I was the first year of university in Korea (1998) , the mobile phone wasn’t popular, i mean not every one can buy it. It was expensive, huge and heavy to carry and also there weren’t any services for mobile phone compared with now.
How about now? I can’t expect we can take photos, listening music and even watching TV through mobile phone! I hardly see people who are watching TV through mobile phone in Melbourne but most people in Korea, they watch TV through their DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) phone in the bus, train, subway and EVERYWHERE!
Like this, the technologies are improved and new technologies are invented at every second. And we are living in this new technology world. However is really every one can adopt to these new technologies and is every one living happily in this technology world? I don’t think so.
Well, our life is getting better but we don’t consider ‘EVERY ONE’. They can be older people.
I was interested in this topic since 2006 and I am going to research more and deeper about this topic again for this year. I am still researching to get main concept of this research project.One thing that I want to achieve with this project is, I want to let older people can enrich their life with the new technologies like anyone in our society. Once again, New media is not only for New generation.
