Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
How to Start a Conversation When You Have Nothing to Talk About
This article gives you step by step tips on how to start a conversation:
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Social Networking Harms Health? LOL
Is social networking a catalyst for depression?
"Internet relationships are less real and result in greater social isolation and loneliness for people who increasingly turn to them."
"People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they reduce levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims."
"Internet relationships are less real and result in greater social isolation and loneliness for people who increasingly turn to them."
"People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they reduce levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims."
How social can we get? What evolutionary psychology says about social networking
Columnist
Special to MSNBC
updated 10:55 a.m. ET Sept. 10, 2007The Gods Must Be Crazy
What happens when a foreign object enters an isolated community? The Gods Must Be Crazy is a comedy about a tribe that is rooted deeply with their customs and way of life that when a coca-cola bottle is found it creates a bit of ciaos. The tribe begins to depend, need, and fight for the multiple uses they invent with the bottle. One member decides it's time for the bottle to "go back to where it came from" and travels out into the modern city to return it.
Friday, February 12, 2010
The Lost Art of Conversation
"The art of conversation has been preempted by technology in almost every area of our lives. The idea that humans are more fallible than machines has cause us to turn toward technology for entertainment, information, and problem-solving. Our ability to communicate through the medium of converstation has atrophied as a result of our idol worship of the machine."- pg.89
became a fan of...
i'd rather text than talk on the phone. Facebook group of people proud to text rather than hear a voice:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Id-rather-text-than-talk-on-the-phone/225066222622
arguments
*becoming too comfortable with technology and less comfortable with people.
*with the increase of technology we have had a decrease in human interaction
Generation M2: Understanding the Multi Media Teen: Written by Mike Melanson
"According to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation, those between the ages of eight and 18 devote just under eight hours a day to media consumption and, depending on how you look at it, that may be the least surprising of the numbers."
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What is my goal?
I am trying to come up with a way to make a campaign of some sort that will make actual human interaction cool again! I believe that this new movement with social networking is taking this urge away from people especially the younger generation that is growing up with it.
So how do I create a campaign without the use of heavy technology?
I'm thinking of creating an image for my idea and making Ads, commercials, and perhaps t-shirts.
more inspiration
" The spontaneity of conversations pervents them from being edited to a sterile purity." -pg 85"Within conversations are a myriad of self-adjusting systems. As we speak with another person, we constantly readjust our language based on the cues we get from the listener. Do they look baffled or excited, bored or angry?" -pg.87
"There is no other communication device that provides such subtle and instantaneous feedback, or permits such a range of evaluation and correctability." -pg.87
Thursday, February 11, 2010
New Contact: Stella Lau
I came across Stella Lau's website about social networking where she touches upon the pros and cons. I sent her an email to ask her more questions and possibly use her as a reference.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~stellal/index.htm
::waiting for reply::
Internet, Cellphones May Strengthen Family Unit, Study Finds
By Donna St. George
Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, October 20, 2008
Another Extreme! The Luddites
The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanised looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their entire way of life. -via wiki ::linked image::
Get Off the Internet, and Chew Some Gum
By: CLAIRE CAIN MILLERArticle from the New York Times touches upon the Ads created by McCann Erickson for Dentyne. The campaign series is called "Make Face Time". ::linked image::
"Technology is meant to help" clip from the Metro
"Remember, people run technology, not the other way around. The power is within us as to how we use it. Stop and think why you are using a particular technology. It is to help you to do your work and keep in touch with friends and family or are you just entering useless information and aimlessly looking at stuff? Just because there are lots of tech options, doesn't mean that you have to pick them all. The smartest thing to do is pick which tech tool you will use and pull the plug on the rest." Ilena Di Toro, Via E-mail METRO 2/3/10 pg.12
Information Anxiety
"The problem is not that we think so highly of computers but that we've come to think rather less of humans."-Paul Kaufman (information theorist) pg.40"When you can admit ignorance, you will realize that if ignorance isn't exactly bliss, it is an ideal state from which to learn." pg.53
Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Anxiety. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
contacts
i was able to contact an ex classmate of mine from emerson who is now a gadget guru. i hope she can be my source for the other extreme of how social networking has changed the way we interact with each other and have we become dehumanized a bit?
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Thesis:
"The problem is not that we think so highly of computers but that we've come to think rather less of humans." -Paul Kaufman
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