The Mission

As we grow constantly connected online we start to question  if we are becoming decreasingly disconnected in real world environments. We intend to find the answer to this question by “disconnecting 2 reconnect”. Each week we are going to challenge each other to disconnect from a social network, or piece of technology in the attempt to reconnect to the people and communities in our lives through forms of communication we may have forgotten.
We want to know what it is like to grow up in environments free of social media and technology that keeps us constantly connected. This is our attempt as Media Studies students at the University of Guelph-Humber to explore the on-going discussion of how being connected may be discontenting us from ourselves, the people around us, and our communities.
Through this experiment we intend to document our expierences through posting them to this tumblr, and encouraging others to join to make this go viral. We also want others to share their thoughts and expierences by e-mailing them to disconnect2reconnect@gmail.com along with your name and age.
posted by: Courtney Wright, on behalf of “The Reconnect”