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Pamela Hawks

Seeing Beyond The Mass "Consensual Hallucination." | Media Working Group - 1 views

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mass hallucination working group

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  • Adam Curtis’ new documentary, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, gives hope that at least some of the world is waking up from the mass hallucination of disembodied information. The documentary, which is subtitled, “The Rise of the Machines,” explores how in the later part of the 20th Century, and the first decade of the 21st, much of the world became organized around the old gnostic fantasy that information or souls can be separated from the constraints of the material world, becoming free to circulate through time and space. This way of seeing the world has always unleashed powerful fantasies of power among the powerful. And it has recently led some to the ludicrous conclusion that, “information wants to be free,” or that human beings are merely meat vehicles for the transport of genetic information through time.
  • Pamela Hawks on 06 Jun 12
     
    Anton... I thought of you when I saw this in the Media Working Group Blog
  • Anton Angelo on 06 Jun 12
     
    Thanks for that: Curtis really is a provoking force, his 'power of nightmares' is a tour de force. The article says its never been screened in the US, which I find astonishing. I'm about to rewatch "all surrounded..." this weekend to see what it has for my topic for this course. His criticism of the information revolution as deluding the middle class into thinking it is something that is essentially egalitarian and flattening is a good one. I think the economic downturn has done a better job of convincing us of the fact that deep inequality exists, is incresaing and is a bad thing, though. Oh, and @Pamela: I have my bronze masters sabre medal hanging in front of me: I come from a resonably notorious fencing family... you a foilist?
  • Pamela Hawks on 06 Jun 12
     
    But if anyone in the US is curious, you can watch it for free here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/ and here in the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/AdamCurtis-AllWatchedOverByMachinesOfLovingGrace Sounds like a great rainy weekend activity! @Anton -- I actually fence epee -- although it's been a few years. I just like not having to worry about right of way :) My kids are both foilists though, so I have had to get up to scratch on directing a foil bout. Do you still fence??
Lilia p

All watched over by machines of loving grace - 24 views

I didn't read the interpretation so I don't know really what to think. My instinctual reaction was totally mixed.

Social Informatics poetry documentary Richard Brautigan Adam Curtis Dystopia Utopia

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Samantha Gilham

America at the Digital Turning Point - 6 views

www.digitalcenter.org/...year_digital_turning_point.pdf

digital Social Media social informatics Information Communication Technology online community ICT

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  • Samantha Gilham on 06 Jun 12
     
    Stumbled upon this report, published January 2012, from the USC Annenberg School of Comm. Some great statistics and information about the users and non-users of technology and the Internet.
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  • Lilia p on 07 Jun 12
     
    What you will find is that there are many centers doing research on the impact of social/digital media, and they are very good resources for primary info
  • Lilia p on 08 Jun 12
     
    I should, however, note that I would like to know more about their survey and how they administered it. From a methods point of view it's always a good practice to learn more.
  • Amanda Jacobsen on 08 Jun 12
     
    "online behavior changes relentlessly, and users and nonusers develop attitudes and actions that are constantly in flux as technology emerges, and then thrives or withers." This really reminds me of a documentary I watched on trends (mainly youth) and how things changed so often that they were unsure if the media or the children that were really setting the trends. As new trends "emerge" others "wither". Out internet behaviors seems to follow the same patterns as all our other social patterns.
  • Karen Carter on 09 Jun 12
     
    This is a really interesting report...it left me with even more questions, though.Particularly interested in the finding that social media had limited credibility among the study participants despite increased use. I wondered what the definition of credibility was in this case...I had before not thought of FB as credible or not credible, unless this is somehow tied to privacy issues.
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