Joichi Ito - Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants. How the Internet Is Ruining Everything. A selection of books by David Weinberger. The ongoing argument about whether the Internet is a boon or a bust to civilization usually centers on the Web’s abundance. With so much data and so many voices, we each have knowledge formerly hard-won by decades of specialization. With some new fact or temptation perpetually beckoning, we may be the superficial avatars of an A.D.D. culture. David Weinberger, one of the earliest and most perceptive analysts of the Internet, thinks we are looking at the wrong thing. Mr. Mr. “Newspapers, encyclopedias, they are just gone, at the touch of a hyperlink,” Mr.
The abundance problem of the Web, Mr. But more important where the destruction of the institutions that supposedly steward the development of knowledge is concerned, he said, is the Web’s ever-changing structure of links, which undermines hierarchical analysis by allowing everyone to see and contribute different points of view. While that can lead to speedy analysis, Mr. I put this to Mr.
STORE. MUSIC. METIERS. SOCIAL MEDIA FATIGUE. Ce que traduit la peur de la distraction. La lecture de la semaine, il s’agit de quelques extraits d’un entretien que Cathy Davidson a donné le 21 août dernier au magazine en ligne Salon. Cathy Davidson enseigne les études interdisciplinaires à l’Université de Duke en Caroline du Nord et elle est l’auteure d’un livre intitulé Now you see it qui traite de la manière dont les travaux sur l’attention vont transformer notre manière de vivre, de travailler et de penser. Dans cet article de Salon, elle est interrogée sur les enfants et sur la manière dont nouvelles technologies modifient le cerveau des enfants, pas forcément dans le mauvais sens. Cathy Davidson commence par expliquer que le discours sur les nouvelles technologies et les enfants a complètement changé après la tuerie de Colombine (en 1999 deux adolescents avaient tué à l’arme automatique 13 de leurs condisciples et professeurs).
Xavier de la Porte. Antonio Casilli : « Le web reconfigure notre manière de faire société » Pour l’été, InternetActu vous propose de revenir sur les usages d’internet en compagnie de quelques-uns des chercheurs, sociologues, anthropologues, psychologues qui nous aident à comprendre l’internet. A l’occasion de la parution des Liaisons numériques, vers une nouvelle sociabilité ? (Amazon), aux éditions du Seuil, nous avons rencontré son auteur, le chercheur en sociologie, Antonio Casilli (blog). Dans ce livre très documenté, qui puise à la fois dans la richesse des savoirs académiques et dans une expérience et réflexion très personnelle, Casilli démonte trois mythes de l’internet : le réel et le virtuel ne sont pas distincts, mais imbriqués ; les traces corporelles sont un moyen d’exprimer et réaliser son autonomie, ses stratégies ; les TIC ne sont pas désocialisantes mais reconfigurent notre manière d’être en société.
InternetActu.net : Pourquoi les ordinateurs ont-ils acquis une place aussi intime dans nos vies ? Antonio A. C’est tout l’enjeu de la question de l’homophilie. Logging on to computers helps us get out more, insist economists | Technology | The Observer. The commonly held belief that the internet is turning an entire generation into solitary web-junkies is a myth, according to new research. The findings may offer succour to parents worried that social networking sites such as FacebookFacebook are reducing their children's participation in school sports and cultural activities. In a paper to be presented to a gathering of Nobel prize winners later this month, three influential economists claim their work demonstrates the internet is actually making us more socially active. Stefan Bauernschuster, Oliver Falck and Ludger Woessmann of the Ifo Institute in Munich reject the claim that the internet isolates people socially and erodes the traditional foundations of society.
"There are no indications whatsoever that the internet makes people lonely," Bauernschuster said. He explained that their study revealed that a broadband connection at home positively influences the social activities of adults as well as children. 7 Radical Disruptions to Business. Sean Carton | August 1, 2011 | 0 Comments inShare45 Trends that rocked business as we know it. If you look at industries disrupted by the Internet over the past 15 years, you'll find that most have been rocked by the following trends: 1. A shift in power from producer to consumer. How many people use travel agencies now that we have the power to book our own flights? How many of us go to a car dealership without researching purchases online first? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If you look at nearly any industry based on information - travel, entertainment, publishing, journalism (just to name a few) - they've been irrevocably transformed over the past 10 to 15 years because of these trends.
To be fair, all of these industries have been making adjustments over the years. If they don't give customers want they want, when they want it, and how they want it, someone else will. Next up: a look at one industry that (for the most part) is still partying like it's 1995: higher education. Are your customers becoming digital junkies? - McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing & Sales - Digital Marketing. New McKinsey research highlights a dramatic increase in the intensity with which people use digital devices and platforms. Nearly 50 percent of US online consumers are now advanced users of smartphones, social networks, and other emerging tools—up from 32 percent in 2008. We have been tracking consumers’ digital habits through a series of surveys covering more than 100,000 respondents across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Our 2010 US findings highlighted the growth of advanced multidigital and rich-media segments (exhibit): the people most likely to be early adopters of new technologies (whom we label “digital-media junkies”), often younger men; those spending more time on social networks (“digital communicators”), often women; and those more likely to consume Internet-based video (“video digerati”). Meanwhile, we have seen a decline in segments focused primarily on one kind of digital use (such as e-mail or gaming), as well as late adopters whose digital consumption is superficial.
Study: Kids Say the Future of Tech is Robots & Real-World Integration. + Share this Latitude recently completed a multi-phase innovation study, Children’s Future Requests for Computers and the Internet, which asked kids across the world, ages 12 and under, to draw the answer to this question: “What would you like your computer or the Internet to do that it can’t do right now?”
In our last post, we highlighted 3 themes that recurred across kids’ ideas for new technologies: The Digital vs. Physical Divide is Disappearing (Tech = World)Why Aren’t Computers More Human? “I want to travel to another place as if I was really there–like a virtual reality thing where you can move around in the environment as it exists in real life.” We also pinpointed 3 key recommendations for creators of new content and technology experiences (for both kids and adults): Don’t think robots are just for schools. “I want to play a 3D game while earning real money at the same time.” Download the study summary (PDF) for Children’s Future Requests for Computers and the Internet here. Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming. The most surprising takeaway from the recent Pew Research Center study, "Social Networking Sites and Our Lives," wasn't that 80% of Americans regularly use the Internet or that 60% of web users have a social network account--double the number in 2008, with the vast majority on Facebook (52%) and Twitter (33%).
Nor is it that people have gone gaga over smartphones, with one in three Americans owning one. Rather, it's the idea that the Internet, in particular social networks, engender trust, and the more time you spend on them the more trusting you become. As the report put it, "The typical Internet user is more than twice as likely as others to feel that people can be trusted," with regular Facebook users the most trusting of all. "A Facebook user who uses the site multiple times per day is 43% more likely than other Internet users and more than three times as likely as non-Internet users to feel that most people can be trusted. " There's a good reason for this. Texters : un album. Les blogueurs à la lumière de leur écran. La photographe américaine Gabriela Herman a photographié un blogueur qui lui en a recommandé un autre, et ainsi de suite. Le résultat est une série de portraits à la lumière des écrans, un voyage intimiste entre online et offline.
Comment avez-vous commencé cette série ? Je suis blogueuse depuis trois ans et avide lectrice de blogs, devenus ma première source d’information. Ils me nourrissent et me réconfortent. Aujourd’hui, les blogueurs sont même devenus très influents puisqu’ils présentent, analysent et filtrent l’information, ce qui n’était pas évident au départ. Certains sont respectés et reconnus dans leurs domaines de prédilection. Je voulais trouver une manière de travailler sur la connectivité à l’ère du numérique et sur la façon dont nous vivons et utilisons notre temps. Quelle est votre vision des blogueurs ? Je crois profondément que les blogueurs nous connectent et nous rapprochent. Parlez-nous de votre mise en scène et de la façon dont vous avez travaillé avec les blogueurs. Gabriela Herman. SoLoMo - NYTimes.com.
La vie connectée. « Smart » ! Le mot résume bien la nouvelle vague d’innovations technologiques, d’appareils communicants et d’usages inédits d’une révolution numérique qui déferle aujourd’hui autour des écrans, avant d’envahir notre quotidien des prochaines années. Le smartphone est déjà devenu le centre de notre vie numérique, supplantant l’ordinateur. Cette année, arrive dans notre salon la télévision connectée, la « smart TV », comme disent les Américains.
Demain, le reste des objets importants qui nous entourent (voitures, électroménager, meubles, livres …) seront aussi reliés à l’Internet, se parleront entre eux, et utiliseront ce qu’ils sauront de nos habitudes et de nos préférences. Après demain, notre maison et nos villes seront intelligentes, grâce à un réseau qui aura gagné en QI via de multiples plateformes d’applications et de capteurs ! Déjà, les lignes se brouillent entre nos vies « off » et « online » ! Notre environnement immédiat est branché 24/7! Des écrans partout ! Images FlickR CC.
Electronic Devices Redefine Quality Family Time. FILTER BUBBLE. FRIENDSHIP. FOMO. TURN OFFLINE.