Not Only Are My Devices What They Are When They Were Given to Me, But Now They’re Like What I Want Them to Be

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Title

Not Only Are My Devices What They Are When They Were Given to Me, But Now They’re Like What I Want Them to Be

Description

Interview #13 - Post-1980 Birthdate
Kyle Scar is an Asian American first-year student at Oxford College of Emory University. He was originally born in Germany, but has most recently lived in Newport, Massachusetts. He first had regular in-home access to a digital device of some sort at age 5, personally owned one at age 8, and is now able to code in Swift (Xcode) – a programming language. For this interview, Kyle chose to talk about the general family of Apple products (e.g. MacBook, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch).
Megan Yang is also 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 the same generation as herself in order to grasp a bigger picture understanding of “digital natives” and digital literacies.

Date

September 23, 2018

Language

English

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewee

Kyle Scar (pseudonym)

Location

Oxford College of Emory University

Original Format

Transcript

Duration

10 pages

Interviewer

Megan Yang

State/Province of Residence

Newton, MA

State/Province of Birth

Freiberg, Germany

Five-year birth range

1996-2000

Nationalities

American, Chinese, German

Gender

Male

Race or ethnicity

Asian

Socioeconomic class

Middle Class

Main Languages

English, some Chinese

Occupation

College Student

Length of digital device access

14 years

Age of regular digital device acess

11 years

Coding/markup languages

Swift (Xcode)

Device Type

Personal network of Apple devices

Device Make and Model

Macbook Pro, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6s, iPad 3, Apple Watch 1

Files

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Citation

“Not Only Are My Devices What They Are When They Were Given to Me, But Now They’re Like What I Want Them to Be,” Archive of Personal Digital History, accessed November 22, 2024, https://apdh.oxomeka.org/items/show/3.

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