This week's readings focus on our growing dependence (obsession even) on social media services such as Facebook, twitter, and mobile phones. Although noise in a physical sense may have decrease over the years, according to Crawford (2010), the new "noise" of the 21st century is net-worked conversation.
The article implies that the growing use of social media is a negative thing which creates unnecessary "noise" in people's lives, I can't really agree. If people want to maintain social networks through technological mediums, they have the option to be able to do so. There is nothing stopping anybody from switching off their phone or forcing people to check their news feeds on Facebook (or even having a Facebook).
Bibliography:
Crawford, K., 2010, ‘Noise, Now: Listening to Networks’ in Meanjin Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 64-69
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