"Abstract Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them avoid being tempted by attention-grabbing and potentially harmful content. We argue that digital information literacy must include the competence of critical … Continue reading Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
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What You Feed Grows
What you feed grows. Don't like something you see on the Internet or in your life? Ignore it. Responding is rewarding the behavior, which means you'll see more of it. Getting no response drives people that want attention to do something else. Give your attention to what you want more of.
Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It
"Because of the digital revolution, our lives are being transformed by three grand bargains. The intellectual bargain: we have more knowledge but less capacity to concentrate and focus. The social bargain: we are much more available but much less attentive. And most importantly, the emotional bargain: we are much more connected, but much less empathetic. … Continue reading Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It
Charisma
"The truth is that charisma is a learned behavior, a skill to be developed in much the same way that we learned to walk or practice vocabulary when studying a new language."-Bryan Clark, "What Makes People Charismatic, and How You Can Be, Too" The New York Times. August 15, 2019. Argues that charisma is presence, … Continue reading Charisma
Against Hustle
"Even Thomas Merton — a mid-twentieth century activist monk who lived at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, and whom Odell holds up as a model of informed, participatory refusal — might have difficulty following the same path today. My mom lives a couple hours away from the Abbey of Gethsemani and when we went … Continue reading Against Hustle
Network Distribution of Propaganda
"Manufacturing Consent" identifies five filters of a propaganda model for controlling populations in modern society, i.e., concentration of media ownership, influence of advertising as a revenue model, the reliance on authoritative sources to define the narrative, flak as a means of limiting the range of discourse, and fear of "radical Islam", "communists" or any other … Continue reading Network Distribution of Propaganda
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