"But You're Right, It Sped Up My Life for Sure"

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Title

"But You're Right, It Sped Up My Life for Sure"

Description

Interview #11 - Pre-1980 Birthdate
The following pages consist of an oral history interview between the interviewer, Megan Yang (denoted MY), and her subject, Carmen Gutierrez* (denoted CG). This interview was conducted on Friday, October 12th, 2018 around 10am in Office 237 at Pierce Hall. It lasted around 23 minutes.
Carmen Gutierrez is a White European professor at Oxford College of Emory University. She was originally born in the Canary Islands of Spain, but has most recently lived in Atlanta, Georgia. She first had regular in-home access to a digital device of some sort at age 24 (in year 1998) and has personally owned one for 23 years. For this interview, Carmen chose to discuss her iPhone.
Megan Yang is an Asian American first-year student at Oxford College of Emory University. She was born in California, moved to Connecticut, and then lived in Shanghai, China for twelve years. At Emory, she hopes to study marketing and international business while double-majoring in psychology. Her goal for this interview is to understand the technological habits of someone in an older generation relative to her own in order to explore whether digital habits or literacies differ between generations. Bolded statements are deemed significant to reflection on this topic.

Publisher

Oxford College of Emory University

Date

October 2018

Format

Adobe PDF

Language

English

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewee

Carmen Gutierrez (pseudonym)

Original Format

Transcript

Duration

10 pages

Interviewer

Megan Yang

State/Province of Residence

Georgia, USA

State/Province of Birth

Canary Islands, Spain

Five-year birth range

1971-1975

Nationalities

Spanish-American

Gender

Female

Race or ethnicity

Caucasian, European

Socioeconomic class

Middle Class

Main Languages

English, Spanish, French

Occupation

Professor of Spanish

Length of digital device access

23 years

Age of regular digital device acess

24 years old

Coding/markup languages

N/A

Device Type

Cellphone

Device Make and Model

iPhone 8 Plus

Files

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Citation

“"But You're Right, It Sped Up My Life for Sure",” Archive of Personal Digital History, accessed November 22, 2024, https://apdh.oxomeka.org/items/show/26.

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