“A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.” Video created by Andrew Huang.
Sometimes things just seem to happen all at the right moment.
Categories: anthropology, psychology, technology
Tagged: freedom, marcuse, power, sociology, technology
If anyone’s interested, here are my notes from TWTRCON DC 09. I make no guarantees on their quality or thoroughness – I’m not particularly good at keeping meeting minutes, so I apologize in advance for their incoherence. But they’re there if you weren’t able to attend and want to check them out.
Categories: technology
Tagged: notes, socialmedia, twitter, twtrcon
Great discussion on the (un)reality of multitasking and how our uses of new media might be affecting our ability to concentrate even when we aren’t plugged in. Rebecca Roberts speaks with Lee Rainie, Founding Director of Pew Internet & American Life Project, and Clifford Nass, Stanford Professor and Founder and Director of the Communication between [...]
Categories: psychology, technology
Tagged: cognition, multitasking, new media, psychology, technology