https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=904339 2024-12-29T08:21:41Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=904339 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > digial media Is it possible there are modes of attention that a younger generation is developing that might be difficult for those of us who are older to value, but which bring new types of benefit? What of the rapid, quick-fire, written exchanges of in... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1660134 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/26/young-people-attention-spans-online-world 2024-12-29T08:21:41Z Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public, https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657484 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/10/fighting-the-smartphone-invasion-the-french-village-that-voted-to-ban-scrolling-in-public 2024-02-10T07:41:22Z ‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1653248 https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jul/03/is-your-smartphone-ruining-your-memory-the-rise-of-digital-amenesia?CMP=share_btn_tw 2022-07-04T07:02:29Z We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1651610 https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/object-based-media-toolkit 2022-03-23T20:11:08Z Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1606482 https://points.datasociety.net/did-media-literacy-backfire-7418c084d88d 2017-06-15T21:17:17Z Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr... Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusi ... It comes fr https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1589464 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance 2016-12-27T09:25:00Z After finding evidence that much of the “fake” and h... traffic during 🇺🇸#Election2016 was arriving throug... hyperlinks, search engines, and “old school” sharing... email newsletters, RSS, and instant messaging, I thought... “big data https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587758 https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-election2016-micro-propaganda-machine-383449cc1fba#.fjuybd7qn 2016-12-09T17:34:47Z These tips are just a start at determining what type of ... Zimdars outlined these and others in a guide for her stu... If you do these steps, you're helping yourself and you'r ... And you won't be the only one trying to stop the spread ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1587332 http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/05/503581220/fake-or-real-how-to-self-check-the-news-and-get-the-facts?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews 2016-12-06T14:27:48Z For example: Apple’s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? It’s 5.5:1. Apple’s guidelines for developers. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1582411 https://backchannel.com/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781ddc711b6#.e6xe56rr7 2016-10-20T09:11:33Z Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La sociét... (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer cu... examines the “Spectacle,” Debord’s term for the e... manifestatio https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1575759 http://hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/ 2016-08-17T12:16:15Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1573219 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=1 2015-07-30T18:03:29Z The social media site, Facebook, can be an effective too... Related Articles Infectious mononucleosis Double blind ... lished in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1465107 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150406144600.htm 2015-04-07T14:39:48Z When a friend posted a photograph of charity worker Lind... Facebook, she never dreamed she would lose her job and h... years on, could she get her life back? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1462584 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-shaming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson 2015-03-23T11:11:04Z In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter,... required to do several things at once. But this constant... taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin ex... addiction to technology is making us less efficient https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1462575 http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/18/modern-world-bad-for-brain-daniel-j-levitin-organized-mind-information-overload 2015-03-23T10:31:28Z Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1452732 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/opinion/smartphones-dont-make-us-dumb.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 2015-01-22T18:20:39Z Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strat... memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate ... recently announced mega CSET the Insight Centre to emplo... semantic web to make hundreds of thousands of hours of a... content ava https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1036788 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/cloud/item/32211-rt-to-employ-semantic-web/ 2013-04-10T08:26:39Z The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now bei... volunteers, meaning you might already have been surrepti... uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023267 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/google-glass-threat-to-our-privacy 2013-03-10T14:21:38Z And oddly, this coincides with reports that an audience ... reacted badly to test footage from Peter Jackson's forth... movie. The Hobbit is shot at 48 frames per second – tw... as standard films. The studio claims this gives it an un... fluidity. T https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=992411 http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/29/difference-hobbit-news-not-much 2013-01-21T09:35:19Z This is a guest post from Morgan McGuire. His Graphics C... great thing for anyone who wants just about all graphics... algorithms at their fingertips. It's not a perfect venue... this is an extremely interesting alternative to books, s... constantly https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=923093 http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/graphics-codex-version-1-7-released/ 2012-12-04T12:57:09Z Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=904337 http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sometimes-mob-rule-works/ 2012-11-15T08:06:41Z