This document summarizes a presentation about the value of printed books in the digital era. It argues that books make four main contributions: 1) Respect for the work and effort of others. Books are the result of team efforts. 2) Difficult material is good. Independent reading should include appropriately challenging books. 3) The value of effort. Books reward perseverance and enduring difficult material. 4) A bet for the future from the past. Books allow knowledge to sediment rather than just volatile information. In conclusion, books smarten both naive and smart people according to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
This lecture looks at Determinism and Technological Determinism. This lecture is part of the Media and Cultural Theories module on the MSc and MA in Creative Technology and Creative Games at The University of Salford.
This lecture looks at Determinism and Technological Determinism. This lecture is part of the Media and Cultural Theories module on the MSc and MA in Creative Technology and Creative Games at The University of Salford.
This is an excerpt from a lecture that I give at the National University of Maynooth on the relationship of technology with society. It reviews concepts of technological determinism and outlines Raymond Williams' influential social shaping of technology perspective.
Overview of technological determinism and technological inevitablism. Analysis of implications in four key areas; environment, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, poverty.
Digital Leadership - Culture, Values and TechnologiesMax Jester
Digital Transformation means a cultural shift for every organization. New (digital) tools might force them into new values - but will this work? What does this mean for management and leadership?
Keynote by Michel Lent for the DigitalAge 2.0 conference in Sao Paulo, August, 2010.
In an era of lots of content and not enough time, in the midst of the culture of ‘free’, a vital question worries the media outlets: if the traditional revenue streams for content have shrunk and there is still no alternative business models, how will media survive? And what’s our role as readers, brands, and advertisers in the future of the intellectual production?
My illustrated highlights of Oli Mould's book "Against Creativity". Would highly recommend the book followed up by the work of Hannah Arendt, Paulo Freire, etc.
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
Virtual networks and social epidemics: the convergence of two powersClaudia Berbeo
The White Paper, VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO POWERS shows how virtual social networks operate and how desired goals may be converted into epidemics. Understanding these two phenomena and using them jointly may produce major changes and milestones in enterprises, communities and nations.
I made this slideshow for a class presentation applying Marshall McLuhan's theory to the modern medium of the internet. The points made in these slides contributed greatly to my final project, Tweory (see my links).
Teemu Arina's presentation at the DCL conference in Vanajanlinna, Hämeenlinna on 4th of November 2009. For more information, see http://tarina.blogging.fi
Co-creation Report: Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderClaudia Adiwijaya
made by Claudia Adiwijaya and Joey Cheung
Part(1/2)
A study to impact the communication skill of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with their classmate and other children without ADHD.
This is an excerpt from a lecture that I give at the National University of Maynooth on the relationship of technology with society. It reviews concepts of technological determinism and outlines Raymond Williams' influential social shaping of technology perspective.
Overview of technological determinism and technological inevitablism. Analysis of implications in four key areas; environment, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, poverty.
Digital Leadership - Culture, Values and TechnologiesMax Jester
Digital Transformation means a cultural shift for every organization. New (digital) tools might force them into new values - but will this work? What does this mean for management and leadership?
Keynote by Michel Lent for the DigitalAge 2.0 conference in Sao Paulo, August, 2010.
In an era of lots of content and not enough time, in the midst of the culture of ‘free’, a vital question worries the media outlets: if the traditional revenue streams for content have shrunk and there is still no alternative business models, how will media survive? And what’s our role as readers, brands, and advertisers in the future of the intellectual production?
My illustrated highlights of Oli Mould's book "Against Creativity". Would highly recommend the book followed up by the work of Hannah Arendt, Paulo Freire, etc.
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
Virtual networks and social epidemics: the convergence of two powersClaudia Berbeo
The White Paper, VIRTUAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL EPIDEMICS: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO POWERS shows how virtual social networks operate and how desired goals may be converted into epidemics. Understanding these two phenomena and using them jointly may produce major changes and milestones in enterprises, communities and nations.
I made this slideshow for a class presentation applying Marshall McLuhan's theory to the modern medium of the internet. The points made in these slides contributed greatly to my final project, Tweory (see my links).
Teemu Arina's presentation at the DCL conference in Vanajanlinna, Hämeenlinna on 4th of November 2009. For more information, see http://tarina.blogging.fi
Co-creation Report: Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderClaudia Adiwijaya
made by Claudia Adiwijaya and Joey Cheung
Part(1/2)
A study to impact the communication skill of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with their classmate and other children without ADHD.
Toolkit Instruction from Co-creation Report: Children with Attention Deficit ...Claudia Adiwijaya
made by Claudia Adiwijaya and Joey Cheung
Part(2/2)
A study to impact the communication skill of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with their classmate and other children without ADHD.
Media and SocietyMedia HistoryJOHN DEWEY – 185.docxalfredacavx97
Media and Society
Media History
JOHN DEWEY – 1859-1952
Harold A. Innis
1894-1952
Marshall McLuhan – 1911-1980
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
1912-2003
Robert W. McChesney – 1952-
Three Historical Narratives:
Oral to Electronic Culture
Oral Culture – all interactions take place in face-to-face discussions.
Written Culture – a shared system of inscription in a literate society exists so that communication can take place outside of face-to-face discussions across time and space.
Print Culture – an expansion of Written Culture that encompasses the consequent social and cultural changes that result from the proliferation of printer material.
Electronic Culture – communication transcends time and space.
There is a different sense of time in Oral Culture, according to Ong.
Since there are no records, memory cannot be recorded. History
can only reside in the present, in the telling of the story. Memory
is thematic and formulaic. The story may vary very little from telling to
telling over time, but the words and phrases used may differ.
Performance is the key to authorship. Every time a story is told or a work is
performed, it is shaped by the performer and provides a new model for future performances.
Oral cultures are relatively homogeneous with respect to knowledge and social norms but public and shared across generations.
Written Culture, according to McLuhan , has been the means of creating
‘civilized man.’
According to Innis, written communication allowed societies to persevere through time by creating durable texts which could be handed down and referred to. This allowed for control of knowledge by certain hierarchies and also allowed for centralized control to expand over a wider area.
Audiences could be remote in time and space, and the communicator could guarantee that the message received is identical to the one sent without having to rely on the memory of the messenger. The communicator could reach a wider and more disparate audience.
Print Culture – the ability to mechanically reproduce text freed writing
from its reliance on an elite group of individuals and guaranteed that
each copy of the text would be identical to every other copy.
Printing was instrumental in the development of a secular society and in the establishment of a democracy among the upper classes in early
modern Europe, according to historian, Elizabeth Eisenstein.
Printing reinforced the sense of individuality and privacy and makes
Introspection possible.
Printing enabled the emergence of the newspaper and the novel, and
altered the very structure of human consciousness and thought.
Electronic Culture – the telegraph reorganized people’s perception of space and time; it enabled the transmission of messages across space, and it fostered a rational reorganization of time. The telegraph also separated transportation from communication.
According to Innis, electronic culture allows for a new fo.
Media and SocietyMedia HistoryJOHN DEWEY – 185.docxjessiehampson
Media and Society
Media History
JOHN DEWEY – 1859-1952
Harold A. Innis
1894-1952
Marshall McLuhan – 1911-1980
Walter J. Ong, S.J.
1912-2003
Robert W. McChesney – 1952-
Three Historical Narratives:
Oral to Electronic Culture
Oral Culture – all interactions take place in face-to-face discussions.
Written Culture – a shared system of inscription in a literate society exists so that communication can take place outside of face-to-face discussions across time and space.
Print Culture – an expansion of Written Culture that encompasses the consequent social and cultural changes that result from the proliferation of printer material.
Electronic Culture – communication transcends time and space.
There is a different sense of time in Oral Culture, according to Ong.
Since there are no records, memory cannot be recorded. History
can only reside in the present, in the telling of the story. Memory
is thematic and formulaic. The story may vary very little from telling to
telling over time, but the words and phrases used may differ.
Performance is the key to authorship. Every time a story is told or a work is
performed, it is shaped by the performer and provides a new model for future performances.
Oral cultures are relatively homogeneous with respect to knowledge and social norms but public and shared across generations.
Written Culture, according to McLuhan , has been the means of creating
‘civilized man.’
According to Innis, written communication allowed societies to persevere through time by creating durable texts which could be handed down and referred to. This allowed for control of knowledge by certain hierarchies and also allowed for centralized control to expand over a wider area.
Audiences could be remote in time and space, and the communicator could guarantee that the message received is identical to the one sent without having to rely on the memory of the messenger. The communicator could reach a wider and more disparate audience.
Print Culture – the ability to mechanically reproduce text freed writing
from its reliance on an elite group of individuals and guaranteed that
each copy of the text would be identical to every other copy.
Printing was instrumental in the development of a secular society and in the establishment of a democracy among the upper classes in early
modern Europe, according to historian, Elizabeth Eisenstein.
Printing reinforced the sense of individuality and privacy and makes
Introspection possible.
Printing enabled the emergence of the newspaper and the novel, and
altered the very structure of human consciousness and thought.
Electronic Culture – the telegraph reorganized people’s perception of space and time; it enabled the transmission of messages across space, and it fostered a rational reorganization of time. The telegraph also separated transportation from communication.
According to Innis, electronic culture allows for a new fo.
Learning Futures: Telling Tales Out of SchoolMark Brown
Keynote presentation at JMB Education Conference, Digital Technology for Teaching: Innovation, Integration, Invisibility. Croke Park, Dublin, 16th September.
Today we find ourselves confronted by an overwhelming frequency of radical transformation and information overload. Extracting meaning from this paradigm and accordingly, addressing opportunities and challenges arising through ubiquitous connection and socialisation, has become the conversation of our time. The Third Place Manifesto addresses this change with a view to 'rediscovering' context within persistently disruptive and emergent social ecosystems.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
1. THE VALUE OF (PRINTED)
BOOKS IN THE DIGITAL ERA
ROBERT MAX STEENKIST
COLEGIO JOSÉ MAX LEÓN, COLOMBIA
2015 Education Minnesota MEA Conference
2. THIS PRESENTATION IS NOT:• AN ATTACK TO DIGITAL LITERACY, THE USE OF MOBILE DEVICES, MEDIA INDUSTRIES CREATIVE EXECUTIVES, MULTI READING
INITIATIVES, TECHNOPHILIA ENTHUSIASM, BLENDED LEARNING BELIEVERS
• A MANIFESTO AGAINST ANY TREND DEMANDING UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
“WE CONFRONT A GLOBAL ECONOMY DRIVEN BY AN ACCELERATING FLOW OF NEW IDEAS AND TECHNOLOGIES WHICH ARE CREATING
THE INDUSTRIES AND PRODUCTS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (…) IMAGINE FIGHTING A MODERN WAR USING CAVALRY: THAT IS
THE POSITION WE ARE IN”.
CHARLES LEADBEATER, “LIVING ON THIN AIR”
HOWEVER
“Technology has grown out of concrete
struggles for control over production and
takes its existing shape not because this
is the shape dictated by ethically neutral
considerations of technological
efficiency but because it concentrates
decision making in a managerial and
technical elite”.
Christopher lasch,
Degradation of the practical arts
“Sociological analysis is naïve, we
believe, when it treats the new
telecommunications, space,
video, and computing
technologies as innocent
technical conceptions and looks
hopefully to a coming, post-
industrial utopia”
Kevin Robins and Frank Webster
3. THIS PRESENTATION WILL INTENTIONALLY
AVOID:•NOTIONS ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF READING IN EDUCATION (VOCABULARY, MEMORY, PERFORMANCE IN
TESTS, CONCENTRATION…)
•THE OBVIOUS LINK BETWEEN READING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN VALUES AND CREATIVITY
•ALARMS ON HOW THE DIGITALIZATION WILL “DOOM US ALL” *
•IDEALIZATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES:
* please see Alessandro Baricco´s I barbari, 2006
“This is not the first time people have projected their hope for happiness and their image of perfection upon the
latest magic gadget to come along”
Theodor Roszak
8. •“OUR PROBLEM IS THAT THE INSTITUTIONS TO WHICH WE RETURN TO
PROTECT US FROM VOLATILITY AND TO SHAPE OUR WORLD (…) SEEM
INCAPABLE OR UNINTERESTED (…) WE NEED TO EMBARK ON A WAVE OF
RADICAL INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION AND INVENTION, TO CREATE NEW
KINDS OF COMPANIES, BANKS, WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENTS,
SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES WHICH CAN GATHER OUR RESOURCES MORE
EFFECTIVELY AND DO PUT PEOPLE MORE IN CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES”.
CHARLES LEADBEATER, “LIVING ON THIN AIR”
9. WHAT INTERNET AND THE BOOK HAVE IN
COMMON:
•CREATIVITY IS DEVELOPED BY CENTRALIZED METHODS
•INTERMEDIATION
•PERIODS OF TIME DEVOTED TO LEISURE, ENTERTAINMENT OR DEVOTED
TO KNOWLEDGE (INFORMATION, RESEARCH)
•BOTH RELY ON VISIBILITY TO EXIST AND TO ENDURE
10. WHAT EDUCATION AND BOOKS HAVE IN
COMMON•DIVERGENT FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE BECOME MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN THE
TRADITIONAL ONES
•THE “SYSTEM” IS PERMEABLE: STUDENTS AND READERS MIGRATE IN AND OUT OF IT
RAPIDLY
•STUDENTS AND READERS STABLISH CULTURAL AND SOCIAL LINKS OUTSIDE THE
OFFICIAL CHANNELS
•THEY BOTH CONSTITUTE A FILTER TO THE OVER SATURATION OF THE CONTENT OFFER
11. MORE INDEPENDENT READING PRACTICES
•COEXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE READING-PLATFORMS AND DEVICES
•STUDENTS ARE NOT SUCCEEDING IN READING OVER ONE MILLION WORDS PER YEAR
(DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 2007; FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS, 2014)
•WORSE SCENARIO IN LA: LATEST STATISTIC SHOW THAT NEARLY 1/3 OF THE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS ARE
NOT CAPABLE OF COMPREHEND WHAT THEY READ
•CONTENT “FOR FREE”: AMBIGUOUS, PROFFESIONAL UNDER “UNFAIR COMPETITION” CONDITIONS,
INVISIBLE MARKET THREADS
12. BOOKS ARE RESULT OF EFFORTS MADE BY
TEAMS
•EDITORS, PUBLISHERS, LIBRARIANS, BOOKSELLERS, CRÍTICS, AND TEACHERS
•BOOKS ARE GOOD EXAMPLES OF VICTORY
•THE RECOGNITION OF AUTHORS AND THE VALUE OF CREATIVITY MUST NOT BE EXTINCTED
•MERITOCRACY
Contribution of the book # 1:
respect for the work and effort of others
13. CHALLENGING VS. COMFORT READING
•“THOSE WHO READ A LOT OF APPROPRIATELY CHALLENGING BOOKS AT HIGH COMPREHENSION TENDED
TO EXPERIENCE ACCELERATED GROWTH THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR AND THUS CLOSE GAPS”.
•NEVER BEFORE THE DEVICE WAS AN OBSTACLE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THE WRITTEN TEXT
Contribution of the book # 2:
Difficult is good
14. SHORT VS. LONG TERM GRATIFICATION
•PERSEVERANCE, ENDURANCE
•ULYSSES CONTRACT
•DEVICE AND SOFTWARE ALL START FUNCTIONING ACCORDING TO THE DYNAMICS OF “COMMODITIES”
Contribution of the book # 3:
The value of effort
“Bubbles are primarily social phenomenona; until we understand and address the
psychology that fuels them, they´re going to keep forming”
R.J. Shelley
Nobel Prize Winner for 2013
15. SEDIMENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE VS.
VOLATILIZATION OF INFORMATION
•ANY NEW IDEA MUST COME FROM SOLID BASIS
•THEY ASK FOR THEIR OWN SPACE
Contribution of the book # 4:
a bet for the future(from the past
18. LICHTENBERG ON THE EFFECTS OF BOOKS
“MAKE NAIVE PEOPLE MORE NAIVE AND
SMART PEOPLE EVEN SMARTER”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)
19. SOME USEFUL REFERENCES• A MONSTER CALLS, A GRAPHIC NOVEL BY PATRICK NESS AND ILUSTRATED BY JIM (INSPIRED BY AN IDEA FROM SIOBHAN DOWD). CANDLEWICK PRESS,
SOMMERVILLE MASS 2011
• INCÓGNITO, LAS VIDAS SECRETAS DEL CEREBRO, DAVID EAGLEMAN (TRANS. BY DAMIÀ ALOU) EDITORIAL ANAGRAMA, BARCELONA 2014
• THE GREATEST BOOK YOU´LL NEVER READ, BERNARD RICHARDS, OCTOPUS BOOKS, LONDON 2015
• “WHAT KIDS ARE READING (AND WHY IT MATTERS)” RENNASSAINCE LEARNING, 2015 EDITION HTTP://DOC.RENLEARN.COM/KMNET/R004101202GH426A.
PDF
• BIBLIOFRENIA, JOAQUÍN RODRÍGUEZ, MELUSINA[SIC], MADRID 2010
• THE INFORMATION SOCIETY READER, EDITED BY FRANK WEBSTER (AND MANY OTHERS…), ROUTLEDGE STUDENT READERS, NYC 2009
• OCDE, ESTUDIO PUBLICADO EL 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE SOBRE EL IMPACTO DE LA TECNOLOGÍA EN EL HOGAR Y EN EL AULA
• OREALC 2008
• LOS DEMASIADOS LIBROS, EDUARDO ZAID