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
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. The three economists found that once adults had access to broadband, their attendance at theatres, cinemas, bars or restaurants actually increased. The research comes in the wake of an Ofcom survey that shows Britain's burgeoning love affair with new technology.
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. 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. No matter how much the music, film, and television industries throw digital rights management technologies at the problem, no matter how many obnoxious licensing deals they cut, and no matter how many people they sue, these information industries inevitably will be forced to admit that things can never go back to they way they used to be. 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.
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.
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. 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. J’ai commencé à photographier des blogueurs avec cette idée en tête : permettre aux spectateurs de jeter un oeil sur ces jardins secrets en utilisant les écrans comme seule source de lumière. En reproduisant ce concept online en offline, je recrée de façon similaire la relation entre blogueur et lecteur. Pensez-vous faire évoluer la série ? Les portraits de blogueurs de Gabriela Herman ont été dénichés sur Fubiz
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. Nous allons donc bientôt profiter d’appareils plus astucieux, conformes à notre nouveau mode de vie, souvent social, mobile, contextualisé, personnalisé, « always on ». Déjà, les lignes se brouillent entre nos vies « off » et « online » ! L’accès, plus important que la possession Une nouvelle fois, un environnement neuf se met en place. De nombreux grands secteurs de nos sociétés sont concernés : les transports, la santé, l’éducation, la culture, les médias. Les écrans sont désormais partout au centre de nos usages médias. Des écrans partout !