Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
two articles on Attention, missing something, but what is attention?
Howard Rheingold's recent article on focusing attention in class and the book review he cites are both of interest, but both seem to miss that dealing with attention is as much about wanting it as how to focus our own.
Speaking of focussing it, if you have the patience, here is my long chapter on what attention is, (if I haven't given it to you previously).
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Topic for April 27, 2009
For the next class, I have several suggested readings. First my article "The Mentality of Homo interneticus". Second, an article in the NY Times Magazine by Clive Thompson :"I'm So Totally Digitally Close to You", and third and fourth two short pieces from my blog on the "Net as Superself" and "Are We losing the Narrative Self?" .
Friday, April 17, 2009
News about the class
Hi all. I have reconsidered the subject for the next session, Monday April 20th. The topics will be the Intellectual Property (especially copyright and copying) debate and its effects on newspapers and books in particular. How will the delivery of news change? Can newspapers survive? If so how? I apologize in advance for any disappointments about not covering the topics originally planned, but I think this will make for a more interesting discussion.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Moral values affected by media such as Twitter?
Some serious brain researchers are worried (see this) that moral values will be hurt by the rapid changes of attention suggested by Facebook and Twitter. I cvansee reasons to think otherwise, but they may be right.
Monday, April 13, 2009
A Good use of the Internet
This one-minute video on the history of the Planet Earth puts everything in a valuable perspective.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Twitchhiker: Using online attention to in the material world
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