The Medium Is The Message
related to marshall mcluhans - we shape the communication tool, then it shapes us
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The Medium Is The Message
You Are What You Touch: How Tool Use Changes the Brain's Representations of the Body
Patrick Haggardscientificamerican.com
Israel strikes Iran. A compulsion to doom scroll, but watching myself as I do it. There’s worry, but also a scanning for both clarity and novelty. The main problem is that the same factoids are being repeated over and over; it’s quite hard to obtain new and developing information. What’s happened in the last 30 minutes? It’s a weird paradox; you
... See moreI think a lot about the way visibility is mediated by digital communication. On apps, the only way to be seen is to speak. Silence is a meaningful form of communication, but it’s not one that social media apps have any patience for
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
The document discusses the drawbacks of using PowerPoint for presentations, including its reduction of analytical quality, low resolution, and reliance on bullet lists that dilute thought.
inf.ed.ac.ukhow powerpoints change how we think
