I don't have much to add to Evan Seliger's Wired piece about Facebook Home and the message of its advertising videos: to be cool, worthy of admiration and emulation,
One of the points I make in the book is that one source of our dissatisfaction with smartphones and other personal electronics is that we instinctively want to
Mark McGuiness admits that "Yes, the Internet is Changing Your Brain," but then does what I wish more writers would do: ask what that means, and what good
My friend Anthony Townsend has written about "The Shame of Boston's Wireless Woes," and what the failure of the city's cellphone networks after the marathon bombing tells us
I'll be on City Lights radio tonight at 7 pm, talking about digital distraction with Neema Moraveji and Stephanie Brown. City Visions Radio presents: Texting and Tranquility: Finding
Two studies that have gotten some play in the last couple days suggest a connection between antisocial behavior and technology use. First, UNC Chapel Hill professor Barbara Fredrickson writes in
A friend responds to my last post, suggesting that Bruckman goes too easy on Zygna: they should be recognized as aggressively trying to colonize our attention, not accidentally
Amy Bruckman, who did some of the first serious academic work on online communities, has a thoughtful post about giving up Words With Friends. "It’s a fun game,
It doesn't actually exist yet, but it's only a matter of time. Following her recent article about the potential neurological dangers of the newly announced "Facebook phone", it's
Add this (via Maria Popova) to my list of books to read: George Prochnik's In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise. Popova quotes this