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Dr. Andrew Wood
Office: HGH 210; phone: (408) 924-5378
Andrew.Wood@sjsu.edu


Mediation of Public Life


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"[T]he children of the Internet are Romantics, for they perpetually wish to be someplace else, and the laptop reliably helps take them there — if only in imagination. The e-mailer, the instant messenger, the Web browser are all dispersing their energies and interests outward, away from the present, the here and now. The Internet user is constantly connecting with people and institutions far away, creating surrogate communities that displace the potential community at hand . . . The Internet is perhaps the most centrifugal technology ever devised. The classroom, where you sit down in one space at one time and ponder a text or an issue in slow motion, is coming to feel ever more antiquated. What's at a premium now is movement, making connections, getting all the circuitry fizzing and popping."

- Mark Edmundson, "Dwelling in possibilites"


Overview

We study the impact of mobile devices - along with associated social media such as Facebook and Twitter - upon our abilities and desires to interact with others.

Summary


Andrew Wood's summary of Mark Edmundson's "Dwelling in possibilities"

Dr. Wood's Additional Resources

Andrew Wood's 2010 RMCA Keynote Address: "Converging ourselves to death"

Even More Resources

"I forgot my phone" [Charlene deGuzman]

"Disconnect to connect" [DTAC]

"Please stop using social media, mom" [YourTango]

Image Credit


Atlanta Tech Village