FILM 260 Notebook

1. Matthew Hodder
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2. WHILE TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES
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3. SO DOES OUR ABILITY TO CONNECT
WITH THE WORLD
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4. FRIENDS FAR AND WIDE
FEEL CLOSE
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6. BUT THIS CONNECTIVITY COMES AT A
COST
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7. “In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of
writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word
as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their
heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s
characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.”
And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of
information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought
very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite
ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead
of real wisdom.”” – NICHOLAS CARR
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8. ANSWERS ARE NO LONGER SOUGHT
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9. BUT ARE QUICKLY GOOGLED
WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING
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10. IT QUICKLY BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE TO
KEEP UP WITH ALL OF YOUR
“FRIENDS”
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11. ESPECIALLY WITH FACEBOOK
“TAILORING YOUR NEWSFEED BASED
ON WHO YOU ROUTINELY INTERACT
WITH” – ALAN MARTIN
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12. AND THE CONVERSATIONS YOU DO
HAVE ARE TIDBITS
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13. THAT ARE MOSTLY CURT AND
ACRONYMICALLY-CENTERED
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14. WE LIMIT OURSELVES TO JUST THE TIP
OF THE ICEBERG OF UNDERSTANDING
AND RELATION
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15. THIS SUPER-CONNECTIVITY DISTRACTS
US: “EACH OF US IS IN OUR OWN
BUBBLE.” – SHERRY TURKLE
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16. OUR BUBBLES
SOMETIMES CONSUME
US SO ENTIRELY
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17. THAT SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS MUST
MAKE EFFORTS TO POP THEM
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18. WE MUST REMEMBER TO TAKE
EVERYTHING IN MODERATION
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19. AND SOMETIMES TO CONNECT
WE MUST ALSO DISCONNECT
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20. RESOURCES
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. The Atlantic. 2008.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
“The web‟s „echo chamber‟ leaves us none the wiser” by Alan Martin. Wired.co.uk. 2013.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/1/online-stubbornness
“The Flight From Conversation” by Sherry Turkle. New York Times Sunday Review – Opinion Pages. 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all
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