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Eric Calvert

Social Media: The Media We Love to Hate | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • What is the media we love to hate? Right now, it's social media.
  • Social Media is an easy target
  • When people process information that challenges their view of the world, many lose the ability to think critically. They seek cognitive consonance and comfort.
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  • “See, I KNEW all this media stuff kids do is bad for them.” Just like dime novels, comic books, short skirts, Elvis Presley and Rock and Roll. The rap on Socrates was that he was corrupting youth, too. It’s a wonder any of us survived!
  • New media is not a crisis. It is a fact of life. Get used to it.
  • I urge all of you parents and caring adults out there to learn about new technologies so that you can make judgments that are contextually relevant and so that you can provide guidelines that make sense to kids in THEIR world, not yours.  That is, in fact, where they have to live.  In their world, if you don't know how to use technology you are at a severe disadvantage--and not just socially.  The 21st century skills that our kids will need include technological and media literacy and I mean that in the broadest sense.  Media literacy today is not just the ability to think critically about content.  It is the ability to think critically about use and production in a networked society.
  • But the real issue is that kids use technology differently than their parents do.
  • They also think about the whole process of connection and communication differently. They aren’t thinking of Facebook or texting as a replacement for some other means of communication. They aren't angsting over the qualitative differences between voice, face to face, or text. It is just how they communicate.
  • They aren’t in this for the tools. They’re in it for the social connection.
Eric Calvert

How Online Companies Get You to Share More and Spend More | Magazine - 0 views

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motivation feedback amazon Wired Facebook

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  • Much of Facebook’s genius revolves around the Wall: a public space that we curate but that other people can add to. Within the universe of the site, where everyone is a “friend,” you feel a special compulsion to respond to Wall posts—to comment on others’ posts to yours and to reciprocate by writing on theirs. We want our Walls to reflect ourselves. It’s analogous to the way we curate our belongings, which itself is a window into our personalities. (The psychologist Sam Gosling has shown you can learn more about people from their possessions than from spending time with them. Walls are basically the same—a storefront window to the self.) Users want to display a self that is somewhere between their real self and how they would like to be perceived, which creates a substantial motivation for constant monitoring and upkeep of the Wall.
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