Multitasking

Hypermediacy changes from age to age depending on social context. Does the same idea apply to multiple capabilities such as multitasking with technology? If you think about it most of us listen to music as we operate our car. That is seen as multitasking. I'll sometimes listen to music as I read. This too can be considered as multitasking. But how much does it limit us in the ability to intake knowledge? Can we still function to our full capacity or have we been limited in the amount of information we are capable of absorbing because we are multitasking?

Hypermediacy uses multiple ways of simultaneously representing an idea or concept. Through hypermediacy we can see that there are moments in which a person can have several different tabs or windows open on their computer. From this we can gather that a person can be multitasking while they soak up bits of information from each website while only paying a little bit of attention to each window they are connected to. Does this limit our comprehension when we multi task in this very technologically advanced age? Or can it be seen as a good thing that we can do so many things at once? I pose the simple question of asking whether this has been solely socially constructed or if it has become something that is necessary during our day and age making it important that we can participate in such tasks as being hypermediacy literate?