Posts Tagged ‘Techno-dysfunctions’

Are you digital natives paying attention?

by Derek Morrison, 6 February 2010 (updated 10 & 23 February 2010) N.B. Any personal views expressed in this posting are those of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the view of any other individual or organisation. In their two new well-researched productions both the US PBS and the UK […]

Quote: Here is the message – ooops!

“… too much political effort online simply mimics traditional marketing-driven campaigning – treating voters as little more than shoppers, and policies as slickly packaged products. The overlooked lesson of Obama’s campaign is that it treated voters as citizens with active roles in a democratic society rather than passive consumers swayed by party marketing.” Source: The […]

Quote: Cory Doctorow on Social Media

“There are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to social media. They are Skinner boxes designed to condition us to undervalue our privacy and to disclose personal information. They have opaque governance structures. They are walled gardens that violate the innovative spirit of the internet. But to deride them for being social, […]

My mind is going, going, gone … oh no it hasn’t

by Derek Morrison, 14 November 2009 Here’s definitely one for my techno-dysfunctions category. At 18m 30s into The World’s technology podcast 263 there was an interesting interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger about his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2009). The Princeton Press site also offers a link to […]

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