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Bill Genereux

Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class - The Washingt... - 0 views

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  • Humans are incapable of ignoring surprising new information in our visual field, an effect that is strongest when the visual cue is slightly above and beside the area we’re focusing on.
  • Our visual and emotional systems are faster and more powerful than our intellect
  • attention is the substance which makes the whole consumer internet go
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  • they need defenses against the powerful short-term incentives to put off complex, frustrating tasks
Bill Genereux

How technologies are designed to commodify distraction - Contemplative Computing - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 04 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Nudge
  • we need to help our kids become smarter than their smartphones.
  • Bill Genereux on 04 Aug 14
     
    "Nudge"
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How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 18 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • yanked violently out of the context
  • reflexive critique of white privilege
  • well-meaning people, in a crowd, often take punishment too far.
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  • He retweeted it to his 15,000 followers
  • If she was going to be made to suffer for a joke, she figured she should get something out of it. “I never would have lived in Addis Ababa for a month otherwise
  • Sam Biddle
  • her shaming wasn’t really about her at all. Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing.
  • Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took Sacco down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so. Their motivation was much the same as Sacco’s own — a bid for the attention of strangers — as she milled about Heathrow, hoping to amuse people she couldn’t see.
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