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07 Aug 09

The Technium: Technophilia

  • MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle calls a particular specimen of technology that is revered by an individual an "evocative object."
  • Turkle says, "we think with the objects we love, and we love the objects we think with."
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24 Dec 07

Justin Timberlake - Culture - Hollywood - Idea Lab - New York Times

  • The reason is that when people tend to like what other people like, differences in popularity are subject to what is called “cumulative advantage,” or the “rich get richer” effect.
  • What we found, however, was exactly the opposite. In all the social-influence worlds, the most popular songs were much more popular (and the least popular songs were less popular) than in the independent condition. At the same time, however, the particular songs that became hits were different in different worlds, just as cumulative-advantage theory would predict. Introducing social influence into human decision making, in other words, didn’t just make the hits bigger; it also made them more unpredictable.
18 Mar 07

Me Against the Media: From the Trenches of a Media Lit Class, at Adbusters : The Magazine - #70 Blueprint for a New Left /

  • The Me Generation is back. Just like in the 1970s, young people are frightened and disgusted with current events and have retreated away from politics, with their iPods, PlayStations, and all the other isolating technology the consumer market can offer.
  • Consumerism is a personal choice, and most of my students cannot see beyond that. They shop at Wal-Mart because it’s cheap, and buy coffee at Starbucks because they like the mochas. Sweatshops? Globalization? It’s not so much that they don’t care about these things (though many don’t). Rather, they haven’t been taught to think of consumerism as something that extends beyond their own enjoyable trip to the mall, just as they haven’t been taught that their personal consumer decisions are political.
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