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Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass is currently the Thomas M. Storke Professor at Stanford University; he has been a professor at Stanford since 1986. ...Nass's research focuses on (laboratory and field) experimental studies of social-psychological aspects of human-interactive media interaction. Specifically, Nass discovered that people use the same rules and heuristics when interacting with technology as they do when interacting with other people. This approach is called the "Computers are Social Actors" (CASA) paradigm or "The Media Equation" (media equals real life).
Contemplating Singularity | Forum
Summarizes and discusses N. Katherine Hayles, Andy Clark (on extended mind) and Terence Deacon and Merlin Donald on evolution of symbolic communication.
On the Pew Science Survey, Beware the Fall from Grace Narrative : Framing Science
This traditional fall from grace narrative about science argues for the need to return to a (fictional) point in the past where science was better understood and appreciated by the public...
Yet you would be hard pressed to find this type of rhetoric in the peer-reviewed literature examining public opinion about science, the role of scientific expertise in policymaking, or the relationship between science and other social institutions.
Will the Phone Industry Need a Bailout, Too? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
But as a policy maker — or an investor, for that matter — these economics make for a great deal of risk. If competition ever creates a significant shift to Internet-based phone service, it could quickly decimate the already precarious economics of the local phone business.
discussionworkshop - The Discussion Workshop
The Discussion Workshop Series is an online training program designed to develop discussion skills for the purpose of building democratically organized web communities.
Ignite
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. Since then 100s of 5 minute talks have been given across the world. There are thriving Ignite communities in Seattle, Portland, Paris, and NYC.
Jürgen Habermas (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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In strategic action, actors are not so much interested in mutual
understanding as in achieving the individual goals they each bring to
the situation. -
In communicative action, or what Habermas later came to call
“strong communicative action” in “Some Further
Clarifications of the Concept of Communicative Rationality”
(1998b, chap. 7; German ed., 1999b), speakers coordinate their action
and pursuit of individual (or joint) goals on the basis of a shared
understanding that the goals are inherently reasonable or merit-worthy.
Whereas strategic action succeeds insofar as the actors achieve their
individual goals, communicative action succeeds insofar as the actors
freely agree that their goal (or goals) is reasonable, that it merits
cooperative behavior. Communicative action is thus an inherently
consensual form of social coordination in which actors “mobilize
the potential for rationality” given with ordinary language and
its telos of rationally motivated agreement. - 1 more annotations...
Dave Gray » Some rules for effective business communication
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- Information: No reply required.
- Request: Reply options are “Yes” or “No” (System asks “why?”). No response is considered “No”
- Order: Reply options are “Accepted” or “Rejected” (System asks “why?”). System follows up aggressively when it gets no response.
- Confirmation: Reply options are “Yes” and “No” (System asks “Why?)
Rule 1: IROC. Classify all communications as one of the following:
Rule 2: Passive approval. “Yes” is assumed for all intra-company requests unless you hear “no” within 48 hours. “No” requires a rationale.
Rule 3: Brevity. Use short words. Use short sentences. Use short paragraphs. Be clear.
Rule 4: If it wasn’t said by email, it wasn’t said. “I told you on the phone last week,” “I told you in the hall” etc., are unacceptable.
Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting
Scientists and journalists have been known to talk past each other, both using language rooted in professional shorthand...
Thanks to a series of Metcalf Institute workshops funded by the National Science Foundation, journalists and climate scientists have been able to address these barriers and develop recommendations for effective communication.
PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
Web Puts Dog-Whistle Politics on a Leash
This new media environment undermines political attacks that turn on coded meanings and hidden messages, because now anything can be exposed and cheaply disseminated. Observers used to worry that the web would fragment our media consumption into private little silos--that famous "Daily Me." Yet in presidential politics, an inverse dynamic is emerging. Small groups of people are using the web to expose the targeted appeals of the analog world, and then injecting them into the mass media for the whole nation to assess. And many voters do not like what they see.
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