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Technologically mediated sociality, rather than becoming the means by which radical democracy takes hold, is simply a testament to that very idea’s impotence.
a person’s reading proceeds geometrically while tweeted content expands exponentially
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- What’s more, we face a very McLuhanesque danger in which the medium quite literally becomes the message; all these romantic imaginings of spontaneous uprising are projected onto the technology, which consequently acquires a sort of messianic aura in the process and turns reportage into gospel. Perception management thus becomes more a bottom-up that a top-down affair purely as a consequence of situational constraints: a handful of tech-enabled eyewitnesses tweet their observations, which provokes a frenzy of re-tweets from which reporters, barred access to the scene of the action, cherry-pick with nothing to guide them but their intuitions as to the information’s reliability. The net effect is, then, that rather than offering immediacy, events like Twitter Revolutions introduce added layers of mediation, such that it is incredibly difficult to evaluate information sources. Call it crowd-sourced propaganda; it’s certainly not objective reportage.
- Prophets of social-media enhanced news reporting also tend to overlook the class element of their rosy prognostications. A trip to any library serving poor inner-city neighborhoods quickly reveals what social media’s revolutionary potential means to large portions of the citizenry. It means waiting an hour for a half-hour turn on a computer that was obsolete four years ago. This, I think, the dialectical image of the Twitter Revolution, which is really just an internecine power struggle between a monied superclass and its tech-savvy auxiliary. The former seek to preserve oligarchy; the latter to establish technocracy.

24 Sep 09

Neuroskeptic: fMRI Gets Slap in the Face with a Dead Fish

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16 Sep 09

Can Twitter Be Saved? | The Big Money

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the volume of material that Twitter unleashes now puts impossible demands on its users' time and attention. The problem, in a nutshell, is information overload. The more Twitter grows and the more feeds Twitterers follow, the harder it gets to mine it for what is truly useful and engaging.
he small number of people clicking on that link seemed to me an early sign that we've reached a point of Twitter saturation, in which the result of more people following more feeds adds up not to more communication but more noise.
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- Twitter's growth has been so rapid that it is clearly bumping up against the limits of its usefulness. It is not only increasingly full of noise, but the sheer volume of stuff coming through the Twitter fire hose renders even what was useful much harder to pick apart and make sense of.
- But it does raise the question of just how much engagement we can expect with Twitter as each user signs up to follow more feeds and each active Twitterer tries to tweet more and more often to break through the static.
- inks that were closely related to the main subject of the feed did substantially better
- orporate tweeting is inherently problematic. Corporations invariably believe that they take up a much bigger part of their customers' mental space than they actually do. As the novelty of Twitter wears off, the little attention that people do devote to most corporate feeds will decline even more; I suspect that in the near future many of them will seem as pointless as the inane White Castle home page of 1996.
- the way to keep followers engaged is to narrow their focus and stay on topic. This is quite different from the strategy that many folks now seem to pursue on Twitter, which is to flood the zone with lots of tweets in the hope that simply sending out more messages is the key to getting noticed.
- A lot of people have already had the experience of seeing Twitter abruptly go from engaging to essential to all-consuming. But it's become a little bit like the map that Lewis Carroll once envisioned: having grown to be as big as the world itself, it ceases to be valuable as a map. The question now is whether Twitter can be tamed before it too has grown too world-encompassing to be useful, and the cacophony of signals turns into pure noise.

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the volume of material that Twitter unleashes now puts impossible demands on its users' time and attention. The problem, in a nutshell, is information overload. The more Twitter grows and the more feeds Twitterers follow, the harder it gets to mine it for what is truly useful and engaging.
The small number of people clicking on that link seemed to me an early sign that we've reached a point of Twitter saturation, in which the result of more people following more feeds adds up not to more communication but more noise.
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11 Sep 09

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? - NYTimes.com

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the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
Unfortunately, this romanticized and sanitized vision of the economy led most economists to ignore all the things that can go wrong. They turned a blind eye to the limitations of human rationality that often lead to bubbles and busts; to the problems of institutions that run amok; to the imperfections of markets — especially financial markets — that can cause the economy’s operating system to undergo sudden, unpredictable crashes; and to the dangers created when regulators don’t believe in regulation.

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21 Aug 09

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Close down the schools!

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apophenia: some thoughts on technophilia

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All too often, our conversations center on the need to get technology into the hands of learners, as though the gaps that we're seeing can be explained away by issues of access. Push comes to shove, most of us know that there are problems with this model, but in a world filled with dichotomous rhetoric, it's easy to get into the habit of being the proselytizer in the face of fear-mongering.
How people embrace technology has less to do with the technology itself than with the social setting in which they are embedded.
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- Rejecting technological determinism should be a mantra in our professional conversations.
- There are also no such things as "digital natives." Just because many of today's youth are growing up in a society dripping with technology does not mean that they inherently know how to use it. They don't.
- There's an ever-increasing participation gap emerging between the haves and the have-nots. What distinguishes the groups is not just a question of access, although that is an issue; it's also a question of community and education and opportunities for exploration. Youth learn through active participation, but phrases like "digital natives" obscure the considerable learning that occurs to enable some youth to be technologically fluent while others fail to engage.
- Along the same lines, keep in mind that the technology that you adore may hold no interest for your students. They don't use del.icio.us or Second Life or Ning or Twitter as a part of their everyday practices. And the ways that they use Facebook and MySpace and YouTube are quite different than the ways in which you do.
- Yet, when we introduce technology in an educational setting, we often mistakenly assume that students will embrace the technology in the same way that we do. This never works out and can cause unexpected strife.
- Using technology that ruptures social norms in the classroom can be socially and educationally harmful.
- As we talk about the wonderfulness of technology, please keep in mind the complexities involved. Technology is a wonderful tool but it is not a panacea. It cannot solve all societal ills just by its mere existence. To have relevance and power, it must be leveraged by people to meet needs. This requires all of us to push past what we hope might happen and focus on introducing technology in a context that makes sense.

20 Aug 09

Tweet Nothings: Twitterrhea and Monetized Friendship « Generation Bubble

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19 Aug 09

Critique – Making a Difference « Neuroanthropology

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04 Aug 09

Cat and Girl » Archive » Visions from the Future

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