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L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
People were, he warned, living “on a treadmill of continuous checking.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The internet has become increasingly abused as a tool to undermine Citizenship, not unleash it.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
securing a more democratic future also requires fresh attention to how online spaces organize, constrain, and enable everyday politics.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
David Levy, a professor at the Information School at the University of Washington, has updated both the utilitarian and the humanistic arguments for the networked age by calling for a new “informational environmentalism.” Just as we fight to save marsh lands and old-growth forests from development and pollution, he says, so we need to fight to save
... See moreJudith Shulevitz • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
culture of connectivity,
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
These sites harm people’s ability to pay attention as individuals. Then they pump the population’s heads full of grotesque falsehoods, to the point where they can’t distinguish real threats to their existence (an authoritarian leader pledging to shoot them) from nonexistent threats