In
our society which gets it's inspiration
from being westernized with deep
rooted intoxication of west-toxified
values, the culture of mobiles is
creating a different breed of generation
whose life revolves around a “Hip
Hop Culture of Mobiles”.
One's
social status and values are not
judged by morality or integrity
but by the visibility and showing
off of a cell which should carry
an integration of features like
Black Berry, MMS, SMS, WAP, Ring
Tones (Polyphonic/Monophonic), Pictures,
Logos, Java Games and what not.
The services are un-limited so are
the social and economic implications
of mobile telephony to technological
change and shaping teenage life.
Is
the cell phone undermining our social
order or effecting the sustainability
of one's identity? The rapid development
of the mobile phone represents technical
progress, however it would be difficult
to assume that there is something
inherently progressive about various
ways in which it is absorbed into
the society and used by individuals.
Eventually mobile remains a communications
device having no independent existence
and no power to define us. For better
or for worse, 'Hip Hop Culture of
Mobiles' reflects and shapes our
lives. The relationship between
technological devices and human
behaviors is critical for understanding
how we view our current social attitudes
towards progress and communications.
In
a society where an individual strives
to earn few rupees to ensure the
continuation of life for him and
his family, the site of teenagers
with plenty to spend, moving around
holding expensive devices is simply
widening the gulf between have and
have not's and beginning to re-shape
a community totally divided on the
basis of monitory considerations.
The end result will simply be a
total aggression towards this “In
Crowd” leading to snatching, stealing,
retaliating by force by those who
cannot afford or even see the sight
of un-just distribution of wealth
as is being witnessed now in different
parts of the country. The ramifications
also lead towards destruction of
moral values of economically less
fortunate teenagers in cases where
they are prepared to loose their
morality to gain access to the In-Culture
of Hip Hop Mobiles by promoting
the retrogression to simple pre-modern
patterns of social life.
It's not un-common to observe the
site of students, participants of
different
presentation's and forums exchanging
text messages of love and chat while
the un-fortunate speaker is trying
his best to put some sense around
the heads. It however has definitely
given power to the individuals to
listen while not being mentally
there, power to give impression
of being present while being lost
in an un-ending string of texts
appearing from different parts of
the world and surely the power of
self destruction and deceiving ones
own self. Yes the “Power”, if you
may wish to call it.