Earlier this week on NBC News, a story aired on the nightly news show about how young people are “putting down their phones and picking up knitting needles, board games, and even binoculars”. The slant of the piece was people picking up “analog hobbies”, but almost all of the story was TikTok videos of people engaged in these “analog” activities. So how did people find out that other people were involved in analog hobbies? Through the use of digital media! These analog aficionados were using their phones to capture and share their analog efforts. I thought about using the word “dichotomy” to describe this problem, but I am not sure if that is the word I want. I just think NBC should have tried harder to find analog instances of people sharing, rather than rely on digital media. Do some leg…
Earlier this week on NBC News, a story aired on the nightly news show about how young people are “putting down their phones and picking up knitting needles, board games, and even binoculars”. The slant of the piece was people picking up “analog hobbies”, but almost all of the story was TikTok videos of people engaged in these “analog” activities. So how did people find out that other people were involved in analog hobbies? Through the use of digital media! These analog aficionados were using their phones to capture and share their analog efforts. I thought about using the word “dichotomy” to describe this problem, but I am not sure if that is the word I want. I just think NBC should have tried harder to find analog instances of people sharing, rather than rely on digital media. Do some legwork – or is that “too analog” a phrase?