http://www.adambohannon.org Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:15:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.adambohannon.org/one-dimensional-us/ http://www.adambohannon.org/one-dimensional-us/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:08:52 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=670 “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.  Tonight, I finished [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/one-dimensional-us/feed/ 1 http://www.adambohannon.org/speed-mind-counts/ http://www.adambohannon.org/speed-mind-counts/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:08 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=406 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 [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/speed-mind-counts/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/no-the-internet-does-not-make-up-dumber/ http://www.adambohannon.org/no-the-internet-does-not-make-up-dumber/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:09:48 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=391 In my relatively short time in the consulting world, I’ve unfortunately already encountered the stalwart of entrenched, outmoded school policy that effectively undermines attempts by teachers, however well-intentioned, to pursue a pedagogy centered on increasing media literacy.  Far from being a tech evangelist, I do think thoughtful uses of technology (esp. in the classroom) can [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/no-the-internet-does-not-make-up-dumber/feed/ 2 http://www.adambohannon.org/impact-tech-politics-politics-tech/ http://www.adambohannon.org/impact-tech-politics-politics-tech/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:37:08 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=372 Via SmartMobs and blip.tv – Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, on how tech has changed Politics.  Many great points here and it leaves me wondering not only about the future relationship between tech and politics, but how participatory democracy will in turn shape the tools that helped it emerge.]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/impact-tech-politics-politics-tech/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/school-reform-students-artists/ http://www.adambohannon.org/school-reform-students-artists/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:04:49 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=324 Henry Jenkins of MIT’s Comparative Media Lab discusses how many of our students today are being de-skilled as they enter schools where the digital tools they are using outside of the school environment are invalidated.  Not only are many critical online resources blocked by crude filters but  “[teachers] tell kids again and again that what [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/school-reform-students-artists/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/some-more-on-the-mobile-web-and-barcode-technology/ http://www.adambohannon.org/some-more-on-the-mobile-web-and-barcode-technology/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:10:56 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=300 A week or so ago I blogged about how awesome intelligent-object recognition apps for the iphone are and their potential to influence consumer behavior.  Here’s a BBC article about Bokodes.  New, more sophisticated barcodes that just might change how we interact with objects in our world in a big way.  Still no mention of using [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/some-more-on-the-mobile-web-and-barcode-technology/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/ http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:45:45 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=246 I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public.  According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/feed/ 2 http://www.adambohannon.org/finally-someone-talking-about-class-divisions-online/ http://www.adambohannon.org/finally-someone-talking-about-class-divisions-online/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:56:26 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=154 danah boyd tweeted an unedited version of her talk given at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference (#pdf09) entitled “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online” and I must say, it’s absolutely fabulous.  Though her ideas might be controversial, she touches on an important reality I think many tech evangelists are scared to recognize; that class divisions [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/finally-someone-talking-about-class-divisions-online/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/brain-computer-interface-reaches-phase-ii-awesome/ http://www.adambohannon.org/brain-computer-interface-reaches-phase-ii-awesome/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:01:18 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=134 Um, cool.  Maybe we won’t be jacking in anytime soon, but we’re definitely seeing a blending of human and machine.  These are most certainly post-human times.  A neural interface system called BrainGate has moved to phase II of clinical testing.  What is BrainGate? A baby aspirin-size brain sensor containing 100 electrodes, each thinner than a [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/brain-computer-interface-reaches-phase-ii-awesome/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/some-more-perspective-on-the-iran-protests/ http://www.adambohannon.org/some-more-perspective-on-the-iran-protests/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:21:19 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=105 Great article brought to my attention by @zephoria.  Ethan Zuckerman over at the Berkman Center talks about the over emphasis of the impact of social media on the protests in Iran.  Much of the recent hype has suggested social tools like Twitter and Facebook have more or less caused the protests rather than merely serving [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/some-more-perspective-on-the-iran-protests/feed/ 1