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You think you can multitask? Think again!

February 5, 2015 by William Eaton

        In 2009 I became aware of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the effectiveness of multitasking by Professor Clifford Nass, Department of Communication at Stanford. Nass was one of the first academics to study and warn of the dangers of multitasking and decline of social interaction. He and his colleagues at Stanford devised three tests to study the effects of multitasking—an increasingly prevalent activity of the young. They compared chronically […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz • Tags: science, technology

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Gendered Toys - Courageous and Clever

Feminist Hacker Barbie “Fixes” Mattel’s Vision

December 6, 2014 by William Eaton

The holiday season is always a chilling time for me, witnessing the mad rush of consumerism that now blatantly supersedes any pretense of familial bonding. On this topic, I was amused to hear of Mattel’s timely release of a new book entitled Barbie: I can be a Computer Engineer. Sounds great, or as good as we can expect from a toy giant like Mattel that thrives on creating a gendered toy market! But alas, apparently (somehow!) they fell short of the mark on […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: children, technology, women

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Iconic, but of what?

December 3, 2014 by fritztucker

[print_link] [email_link] If a tree falls in a forest and six different news channels capture footage of it, does it matter? The Internet has changed, ever so slightly, the definition of mass media. Major networks still create most of it. Now, however, anybody has the potential to create iconic images if they get enough retweets and ‘Likes’ on Facebook. Recently, a photo of a crying Afro-American boy embracing a compassionate, Euro-American cop at a Ferguson solidarity protest in Portland, Oregon has gone viral, typically accompanied […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, art, children, civil rights, ethics, New York City, politics, race, technology

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The Future of Communication

October 21, 2014 by William Eaton

The Visual Humanities and the Future of Communication By Maggie Sattler Review of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production by Johanna Drucker (Harvard University Press, 2014) [print_link] [email_link]   In “How E-Reading Threatens Learning in the Humanities,” a July 2014 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Naomi S. Baron, a professor of linguistics whose research interests include writing and technology, contends that when her students read on digital devices, their attention spans and abilities to retain information shrink. This […]

Categories: Review • Tags: education, reading, technology

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The Professor of Ignorance

October 14, 2014 by William Eaton

Excerpt from The Professor of Ignorance Condemns the Airplane By William Eaton On 25 October 2014 Dixon Place presented a staged reading of this dialogue. [print_link] [email_link]   CYNTHIA: You know, thanks to the Internet — information technology — since I started working at the magazine, almost half of my colleagues have been laid off. And as far as I can tell most people have stopped reading anything but twits and chats. I’m sitting here involved in some kind of intellectual […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: animal rights, loneliness, love, science, technology

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The “P” Word: Final Reflections (V)

February 24, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Mediated Pornography: Final Reflections (V) You don’t get to read much about Margaret Grebowicz’s personal stand on pornography in her book Why Internet Porn Matters. A committed philosopher herself, Grebowicz prefers to sit at the margins of the discussion and bring different perspectives into conflict. Her last chapter, “Pornography, Norms, and Sex Education,” is perhaps the only one to feature a strong personal and political view. In it, Grebowicz asks whether Internet pornography might, in fact, have a didactic impact: One significant […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: education, gender, law, philosophy, pornography, sexuality, technology

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The “P” word: mediated pornography II

February 3, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Two weeks ago, when I began reading Margaret Grebowicz’s Why Internet Porn Matters I learned that changes in pornography (i.e., an increasing virtual market) reflect and effect the way people think about sexuality, speech and power. Last week, as I dove into chapter 3, I discovered specific ways scholars speak about this topic. For some, pornography is a strictly masculine interest. It gets recognized—along truth and sex—as belonging to the order of the masculine (On the other hand, artifice, veiling, and seduction, […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: fantasy, men, pornography, sexuality, technology, women

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Big x-pectations: 2-8 June 2013 (ZiR)

June 4, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 2 June 2013 Smart people think that reading great works of literature helps us become moral experts and that becoming moral experts helps us prepare for the decisions we will make in the future. Gregory Currie, however, finds such statement at least uncomfortable. Why should we rely on expertise? he seems to ask; expertise equals complexity, and complexity is useless. I will not go […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Herman Melville, Moby Dick, New York Times, superheroes, technology, Titian

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Reading 17-23 March 2013

March 17, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 10-16 March 2013 (ZiR) Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 17 March 2013 Reading an article entitled “A Brief History of Applause” on The Atlantic Monthly website. No one knows exactly when or where applause originated, but what is fascinating about the article is that we have found new methods of “clapping our hands” when our hands cannot be heard. But we’re reinventing applause, too, for a world where […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Atlantic Monthly, Dewey, obesity, technology

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