Berry, Hawisher and Selfe stated, in the article Digital Literacies, Technological Diffusion, and Globalization” “Mobile telephones began to be used for far more than voice communications, and by 2001 text messaging (short message service, or SMS) had become increasingly popular, more than doubling from 2000 to 2001” (2). This shows that technology has evolved from simple calling to as complex and convenient as texting. I was lucky enough to have the able to text because some people in my class didn’t have a texting plan. Although my phone is involved with much literacy, this phone has had a major part in the discourse community of my elementary school. This phone went through elementary school crushes, detentions, fights and doing badly in class. This phone had a negative effect on me because of the many fights it caused with my twin sister, due to sharing a phone. It wasn’t common for someone to share a phone with someone else so it angered me. It was a “globalized pattern” to have your own phone by at least 5th grade at the time period when I was in elementary school. My mom’s reasoning for us sharing a phone was because “we were always together anyway” (eye roll). But in reality, it was just a way to for us to communicate to her, not to communicate to half of the elementary school. Overall, my literacy artifact is something that I will never forget about.
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