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Steve Ransom

How Not to Be Alone - NYTimes.com - 17 views

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turkle alone technology intimacy relationship critique

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  • Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.
  • The phone didn’t make me avoid the human connection, but it did make ignoring her easier in that moment, and more likely, by comfortably encouraging me to forget my choice to do so.
  • The more distracted we become, and the more emphasis we place on speed at the expense of depth, the less likely and able we are to care.
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  • Most of our communication technologies began as diminished substitutes for an impossible activity.
  • These inventions were not created to be improvements upon face-to-face communication, but a declension of acceptable, if diminished, substitutes for it.
  • we began to prefer the diminished substitutes.
  • it’s easier to check in without becoming entangled.
  • Each step “forward” has made it easier, just a little, to avoid the emotional work of being present, to convey information rather than humanity.
  • My daily use of technological communication has been shaping me into someone more likely to forget others.
Steve Ransom

Paying Attention with @HRheingold's Class at Stanford | HASTAC - 17 views

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attention hastac learningspaces virtualworlds intimacy turkle

shared by Steve Ransom on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
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    "One theme we all emphasized is that, before we can make comparisons between virtual worlds and real worlds, we need to understand lots more about the real world...."
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