My topic for this research project is to investigate the theory of face-to-face communication becoming a so-called “lost art.” As technology is becoming more prominent and essential to keep communication with others, many believe that face-to-face communication will slowly become an ancient form of communication. I want to investigate what effect different factors have on this “lost art of face-to-face communication.” I find how people communicate today through text, mobile voice, social media, Facetime, Skype; the list goes on to be very interesting.
Growing up in a generation that is fully immersed in technology, I wonder what things were like before we had all this technology making communication between others so easy. Although I understand we will not know until the future if face-to-face communication becomes a lost art, I think being aware and looking at the past and comparing it to the future can help us predict and make inferences about what communication in the future will be like.
Personally, I feel that face-to-face communication is very important in all aspects of life. Whether it is communicating with a friend or significant other, speaking with a professor, or interviewing for a job, face-to-face communication is a skill everyone should excel at. But as researchers are expressing today, they are finding more and more people, kids specifically, are struggling to pick up and form strong face-to-face communication skills.
I feel it is important to recognize this and pinpoint the factors that could be leading to this decline of interpersonal communication skills. If we have a better understanding on how communication is changing and know the reasons why, we will better understand why face-to-face communication is being labeled a “lost art.”
That being said, another curiosity arises when thinking about us as a human race. Are we in danger of losing these interpersonal communication skills? In the future are we only going to communicate through technology? If so, are we in danger? Is it a bad thing? Or is the way we communicate changing and in the future face-to-face communication will be seen as outdated? All these questions have struck my curiosity and interest to investigate if face-to-face communication is actually becoming a lost art.
Growing up in a generation that is fully immersed in technology, I wonder what things were like before we had all this technology making communication between others so easy. Although I understand we will not know until the future if face-to-face communication becomes a lost art, I think being aware and looking at the past and comparing it to the future can help us predict and make inferences about what communication in the future will be like.
Personally, I feel that face-to-face communication is very important in all aspects of life. Whether it is communicating with a friend or significant other, speaking with a professor, or interviewing for a job, face-to-face communication is a skill everyone should excel at. But as researchers are expressing today, they are finding more and more people, kids specifically, are struggling to pick up and form strong face-to-face communication skills.
I feel it is important to recognize this and pinpoint the factors that could be leading to this decline of interpersonal communication skills. If we have a better understanding on how communication is changing and know the reasons why, we will better understand why face-to-face communication is being labeled a “lost art.”
That being said, another curiosity arises when thinking about us as a human race. Are we in danger of losing these interpersonal communication skills? In the future are we only going to communicate through technology? If so, are we in danger? Is it a bad thing? Or is the way we communicate changing and in the future face-to-face communication will be seen as outdated? All these questions have struck my curiosity and interest to investigate if face-to-face communication is actually becoming a lost art.