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• 17 Apr 18
  

  isardamov

  401 Culture and Power

• 22 Jul 13
  

  Cindy Marston

  2004/5 article by Christine Rosen about stroking our ego and all of the devices we have invented to do it

  ego technology

• 24 Sep 12
  

  Marita Thomson

  The long-term effect of this thoroughly individualized, highly technologized culture on literacy, engaged political debate, the appreciation of art, thoughtful criticism, and taste-formation is difficult to discern. But it is worth exploring how the most powerful of these technologies have already succeeded in changing our habits and our pursuits. By giving us the illusion of perfect control, these technologies risk making us incapable of ever being surprised. They encourage not the cultivation of taste, but the numbing repetition of fetish. And they contribute to what might be called “egocasting,” the thoroughly personalized and extremely narrow pursuit of one’s personal taste. In thrall to our own little technologically constructed worlds, we are, ironically, finding it increasingly difficult to appreciate genuine individuality.

  egocasting Christine Rosen

• 24 May 12
  

  Thom Henes

  (Advanced Article)

  Web Article

• 08 Jun 10
  

  Anne Helmond

  egocasting content media technology phd

• 09 Feb 09
  

  Will Acme
  • If our advertisements are any guide, we are using devices such as TiVo less as efficient, multi-tasking, modern assistants than as technological enablers that help us indulge in excesses of passive spectacle. TiVo does not free us to watch less TV by eliminating waste; it seduces us with more TV by making television a more perfectly self-centered experience.
  • We spend more time watching television than doing anything else but sleeping and working.
  • This pleasurable sense of relaxation ends as soon as the TV is turned off; what doesn’t end is “passivity and lowered alertness.”
  • By helping us control what we watch and when we watch it, we mistakenly believe that we are also exercising a broader self-control over our television viewing habits; by only watching what we want to watch, we reason, we will watch less. But early evidence suggests that this is not the case
  • By emphasizing the efficiency of the technology—rather than what the technology is making more efficient—we avoid having to ask whether we really should be watching so much television in the first place, or reflect upon what television does to our intellect and character.
  • in our new age of personalized technologies, two bad habits are emerging that suggest we should be a bit more cautious in our embrace of personalized technologies. We are turning into a nation of instant but uninformed critics and we are developing a keen impatience for what art demands of us.
  • “The machine itself makes no demands and holds out no promises: it is the human spirit that makes demands and keeps promises.”

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• 04 Oct 08
  

  Mohit Gupta

  media culture mediastudies music mc102

• 13 Sep 08
  

  feneth tool
• 17 Jul 08
  

  Nancy Friedman

  “egocasting”—a world where we exercise an unparalleled degree of control over what we watch and what we hear. (not the only definition, tho)

  words media culture

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