Cyberspace and physical space Attention structures in computer-mediated communication | Rodney H. Jones. Cyberspace and Physical Space one another, and ‘conceived space’ ( l’espace conçu ), the mental conceptions andsymbolic representations we have of space. But ‘lived space’, what Lefebvre calls‘third space’, is more than just the overlay of mind onto matter. It is conceivedin social actions and determinant of what kinds of social actions can be taken init. It is not something we inhabit; it is something we ‘do’. And it is not, something that we do alone. Discourses in place (the physical/semiotic setting), the interaction order (the socialrelationships among participants) and the historical body (the life experiences-memories, learning, skills and plans) of the individuals. . , the , and the historical body. ‘Attention’, I proposed not as a mere cognitive construct, but also a social one;all social interaction has its basis in conventions for giving, getting and display-ing attention.
Discourses in place Interaction orders historical bodies not are built up through contact with various and various . . . SemiotiX | Space, Technology, and Attention Structures. Rodney H. Jones ‘There’s no there there,’ Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland, California. What she meant, of course, was that she could find nothing in Oakland that made it different from anywhere else, nothing that caught her attention, nothing that made it a ‘place’ for her. Sociologists, geographers, and philosophers have long made a distinction between ‘space’ and ‘place’ (see, for example, Entrikin, 1991; Lefebvre, 1991). ‘Space’ is something ‘objective’, independent of human consciousness, whereas a ‘place’ is more ‘subjective’, something that is ‘discursively constructed’. I have called these orientations towards time and space that create sites of engagement attention structures (Jones, 2005a; 2009b). The chief effect of communication technologies on discourse in place is that they allow us to transcend the ‘here and now’, to make the discourse produced at one moment in one place available at other moments and in other places.
References Archer, M. Rodney H. Why Our Attention Economy Is Crashing — I.M.H.O. “What captures your attention controls your life,” Says Karen Anderson, an award-winning journalist and writer for the Harvard Business Review. I believe she’s right. The only problem is, the things that often capture my attention, well, they’re not things that I want controlling my life. For many of us, what controls our life is buried in the busyness of the days we live. We try to pair down the tasks we manage, but like the rising tide, the list keeps returning and the end result — we’re drowned by our own out-of-control workflow.
Jeff Shinabarger, author of the book, More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity , says this: There was a time, not so long ago, when the polite answer to the question, “How are you?” Let’s be honest, if our personal attention was an economy most of us would be on the verge of a market crash. Most of the daily content we consume — what gets our attention — is just a distraction from the real work we’re called to do. The Rise of the Attention Economy by Esther Dyson. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space MOSCOW – I was recently posed the following question: “The most important way in which the Internet and online social media are changing our world is [fill in the blank].” My standard answer is that it changes the balance of power between individuals and institutions.
But this was a sophisticated audience of economists and students, gathered for the 20th anniversary of Moscow’s New Economic School. So I challenged the audience to consider the following: For much of human history, there was no economy based on trade and fungible goods. Our current world is a mix of people still subsisting with almost no external income, people generating (and consuming) surpluses, and other people consuming surpluses generated by others. Many activities that were previously performed “for free” (often within a household), such as sex, home maintenance, and care for the sick and elderly, are now frequently outsourced and counted as economic output. Prosumer: definition of prosumer in Oxford dictionary - American English. THE PROSUMER – Interactive media usage and it’s consequence | Janine Wartenberg. Influence of Web 2.0 on the consumer’s behavior Nowadays, “prosumers” represent a new category of potential customers.
The term prosumer is a combination of two words – producer and consumer- that perfectly describes the millions of participants in the Web 2.0 revolution. In the article ”Prosumers: A New Growth Opportunity” the author explains the new phenomenon of consumers who are defined as someone who blurs the distinction between a “consumer” and a “producer”. Alvin Toffler used the term in his 1980 book “The Third Wave”. Web 2.0 enables consumers to become producers by their selves. Today’s consumers can be consumer and provider at the same time. That means he is no more passive but takes actively part in generating contents in the media. Characteristics of a prosumer After the article of ”Prosumers: A New Growth Opportunity” prosumers are characterized as following: To read more about the article ”Prosumers: A New Growth Opportunity” Like this: Like Loading...
Digital curation. The term curation in the past commonly referred to museum and library professionals. It has since been applied to interaction with social media including compiling digital images, web links and movie files. Approaches to digital curation[edit] The Digital Curation Centre is a "world leading centre of expertise in digital information curation"[5] that assists higher education research institutions.
The DCC is based in the UK and began operations in early 2004. The following is a general outline of their approach to digital curation: Conceptualize: Consider what digital material you will be creating and develop storage options. Sheer curation[edit] Sheer curation is an approach to digital curation where curation activities are quietly integrated into the normal work flow of those creating and managing data and other digital assets.
A similar idea is curation at source used in the context of Laboratory Information Management Systems LIMS. Channelisation[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With ‘Curation’ A few years later, I reluctantly lent my collection of magazines to a (now former) friend. He had just bought a house that he had no idea what to do with. I, on the other hand, had nothing but ideas. O.K., they weren’t strictly mine, in the sense that these ideas were acquired, arranged, styled, photographed, published and distributed by entities bearing no relation to me whatsoever. They were mine because I internalized them. I gradually convinced myself that they were me. Of course, I didn’t realize any of this until my friend returned my magazines to me with dozens of pages torn out, having either forgotten or ignored my admittedly ridiculous request that he make photocopies instead.
The whole embarrassing situation could have been avoided if Pinterest existed then. This kind of visual catch-bin blog has become disconcertingly common, for reasons that a cultural theorist like Walter Benjamin would perhaps be hard pressed to explain. I used to think this obsession was mine alone. What does it mean to be a digital native? The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won. It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets and spears, but with iPhones and floppy disks. Now the battle between the haves and have-nots can begin. The post-millennial "digital native," a term coined by U.S. author Marc Prensky in 2001 is emerging as the globe's dominant demographic, while the "digital immigrant," becomes a relic of a previous time. The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.
Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world. Although not Luddites, the immigrants struggle more than natives to adapt to hi-tech progress. The human race and its struggle to keep up with technology The new norm Digital poverty The call of the developing world. Is your child addicted to screens? Let me state the obvious here and suggest that at this precise moment, you are probably staring at a screen of some sort. We all do it anywhere from several to several hundred times a day.
Studies have shown that all this technology can become addictive if we let it. And our children are growing up in a world that normalizes that addiction. Gadgets such as iPhones, Kindles and laptops have barely been in our lives for a decade, but already it seems as though many of us are addicted to them. And if you think you check your phone or iPad frequently, you should know that your teen is probably checking it even more.
A new study has found that the majority of kids spend as much as 75 percent of their days staring at one screen or another. That means that kids go right from phones to iPads to TVs to computers each day with little break in between. Students in the study repeatedly used the term "addiction" when describing their dependence on media. Pretty scary, huh? Let me know how it goes! Is technology shortening our attention spans? Do you constantly surround yourself with technology? You could have constant partial attention - which means you don't pay full attention to anything. Constant partial attention (CPA) is motivated by a desire to be a live node on the network, constantly connected to a stream of information.
Jumping from emails to phone calls; sending an SMS; checking Facebook and MySpace; constant RSS feeds; Google alerts; Twitter updates; Skype; sharing videos on YouTube; music playlists on Deezer; bidding on eBay - oh, and did I mention doing your job? Constant CPA results in a splintering of tasks and significantly decreases your productivity. The average worker gets one interruption every seven minutes. That's 60 to 70 interruptions a day - up to 2.5 hours a day on distractions. Andrew May's Recharge Clinic offers programs in performance, recovery, productivity and health. Multi-project not multi-task: Limit the amount of time you spend each day on social media and news feeds. Media limit: Email school: Backchannel. Backchannel is the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside the primary group activity or live spoken remarks. The term was coined in the field of Linguistics to describe listeners' behaviours during verbal communication.
The term "backchannel" generally refers to online conversation about the conference topic or speaker. Occasionally backchannel provides audience members a chance to fact-check the presentation. First growing in popularity at technology conferences, backchannel is increasingly a factor in education where WiFi connections and laptop computers allow students to use ordinary chat like IRC or AIM to actively communicate during class.
Twitter is also widely used today by audiences to create backchannels at technology conferences. History[edit] In her article referring to the "Parallel Channel," PC Forum host Esther Dyson wrote, "around that point, the audience turned hostile. " Books[edit] Use in education[edit] Experiments[edit] Back-Channel Facts. What is a Back-Channel? Back-channels are feedback given while someone else is talking, to show interest, attention and/or a willingness to keep listening. Back-channels are typically short utterances such as uh-huh. Here is a real example, also with audio: Back-channels are also sometimes known as "response tokens," "reactive tokens," "minimal responses," and "continuers".
Why do People Back-Channel? Dialog includes not only the information that is being exchanged, but also the management of the communication and the expression of nuances of attitude and intention [7]. What are the Most Common Back-Channels? Here are five of the most typical back-channels in a few languages. other languages some less-common backchannels in English Why Aren't These Words in Dictionaries? Back-channels exhibit enormous fine phonetic variation. Does Back-Channels Behavior Differ Among Languages?
When Should One Back-Channel? Different rules apply for other languages (link). Why are Back-Channels Important? References.