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Fear of Twitter: technophobia part 2 " Neuroanthropology
Recent fears about the negative cognitive consequences of the social networking site Twitter, which I mentioned in an earlier post, Is Facebook rotting our children’s brains?, led me to recall Steve and Pete’s battle for high FQR. In both cases, concerned
Facebook fans do worse in exams - Times Online
Comments are good, pointing out the need that there are many things in life that need a balanced approach: “I couldn’t resist going online. You do that, then someone’s photo catches your eye. Before you know it, a couple of minutes has turned into a coupl
The Good and Bad Kinds of Crowds : Andrew McAfee's Blog
When I reviewed students’ tweets after class, I found that a lot of them remarked on how difficult it was to pay attention to what was going on in the room and on their screens. And it was very clear that the screens won.
(Linda Stone's Thoughts on Attention and Specifically, Continuous Partial Attention )
I believe attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end,
Disruptive Conversations: The Great Gmail Fail - and the collective panic/meltdown on Twitter...
The Twittersphere is experiencing a gigantic collective spasm of worry/panic/meltdown, along with a healthy dose of amusement thrown in at all of the worry/panic/meltdown. Many of us have spoken or written about Twitter as an "attention lens" where it hel
6,473 Texts a Month, But at What Cost? - washingtonpost.com
What will this generation learn and what will they lose in the relentless stream of sentence fragments, abbreviations and emoticons?
Facebook | Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist | Mail O
Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more
Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com
In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Jackson explores the effects of "our high-speed, overloaded, split-focus and even cybercentric society" on attention. It's not a pretty picture: a never-ending stream of phone calls, e-mails
GAP - Global Attention Profiles
GAP - the Global Attention Profiles project - tracks the attention that selected news media outlets pay to different nations of the world. A set of automated programs performs 1700 web searches every day to determine what nations news media outlets are pa
Engaged Learning " Blog Archive " Multi-Tasking & Social Media - Mastering the Balance
So if it actually is a disturbance to multi-task, where is the line? What is considered multi-tasking and what is considered fruitful learning & performance? This is what I have come up with initially… I see myself in a constant state of learning. But tho
The End of Solitude - ChronicleReview.com
Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter
Overload! : CJR:
The idea that news consumers, even young ones, are overloaded should hardly come as a surprise. The information age is defined by output: we produce far more information than we can possibly manage, let alone absorb.
On Twitter, Followers Aren’t Really Friends
in these time-constrained modern times, our relationships can be measured by the attention we accord to people. We do so by interacting with them — whether by making phone calls, meeting them for coffee, writing on their Facebook wall or in the case of Tw
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - to cheap not to meter
Monitoring everything -- all flows of materials, all flows of energy, all flows of people, all flows of attention -- naturally creates rivers, if not oceans, of data about the flows of data. This flood of meta data is driven in part because the costs of b
Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
some argue that hours spent prowling Internet are of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans & destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books. others say Internet has created a new kind of reading
/Message: The New Literacy and The Enemies Of The Future
We are moving away from sustained, linear, focused concentration as our principal mode of reasoning. Note the implicit and unstated message: reasoning should principally be a solitary pursuit, not a social one
IORG Discusses Solutions for Info Overload - ReadWriteWeb
Information Overload Research Group (IORG) whose founders include IBM, Microsoft, Google, Intel, and a dozen other companies and academic institutions, is on a mission to find solutions to today's information overload problems.
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