Let’s Disconnect for a Day! Assignment #1

Let’s Disconnect for a Day!
Assignment # 1 (Worth 25%)
This assignment will require that you give up access to one social media
related technology (of your choosing) for 24 hours. This could be no cell
phone, no email, no Twitter, no Facebook or Snapchat etc., the choice is
yours! This means that you need to plan ahead! You might need to get an
assignment completed before the day it is due. You might need to let you
friends, family, coworkers, and professors know about your unavailability.
You will probably need to think about how you will spend your time because
temptation will likely be strong.
You may choose any 24 hours. This can be during the weekend if it works
better with your schedule.
The assignment is divided into two separate deliverables (field notes and a
mini paper). Both components are due together in ONE file to the assignment
# 1 dropbox in eConestoga. You can copy and paste your field notes into a
word document for submission. For the mini paper, please write your
responses directly below each question listed in this document. Please use the following
naming format for you assignment submission – First initial, Last Name, Course Code and
Section, and Assignment. E.g., anoskoLIBS19702Assignment1.
Overview of field notes:
In order to get an accurate view of your experience you will be jotting quick
reflections on paper (or on your computer, if you choose) every 3 hours (that
you are awake) during the assignment. You can use the excel spreadsheet
provided – Assignment # 1 Field Notes Spreadsheet.
Every three hours record your answers to the following questions:
 What time is it?
 Where are you?
 What are you doing?
 Who are you with? (don’t use proper names – just describe the
people in terms of their relationship to you – e.g. “study
group”, “guys from my frat,” “my boyfriend” etc.)
 Have you been tempted to use technology in the past 3 hours?
If so, why?
 Any other details of interest
What
time is it?
Where
are you?
What are
you
doing?
Who are
you with?
(don’t
use
Have you
been
tempted
to use
Any other
details of
interest

proper
names –
just
describe
the
people in
terms of
their
relations
hip to
you – e.g.
“study
group”,
“guys
from my
frat,”
“my
boyfriend
” etc.)
technolo
gy in the
past 3
hours? If
so, why?
6:00 am. Home Chatting
with family
With my
father
No Sitting in
garden
9:00 a.m. University Attending
classes
With my
peers
NO No
12 noon Library Preparing
projects
With team
members
No No
3:00 p.m. Cafeteria Spending
time with
friends
With my
classmate
s
No Tried to
interact
more with
my peers
6:00 p.m. Home Reading
news
paper
Alone Tried to
read in
mobile
No
9:00 p.m. Home Spending
time with
family
With my
family
No Tried to
know how
the day
went for
my family
members
Overview of mini-paper: