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Dry Lips
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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:55 am Post subject: Multitasking: digital mayhem or information-Nirvana? |
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In this thread: http://www.mfbb.net/whitedotboard/viewtopic.php?t=8523 I asked if not computer screens also may have negative cognitive effects, similar to television. The jury is still out on that question.
However, many commentators have recently questioned whether multitasking may affect our (mental) health negatively.
Most of us use our computer with our cell-phone within reach, we check our email while we download music, answer SMS's and search the internet; all at the same time. (Not to mention Twitter, etc). But are the smorgasboard of modern information-technology truly making us more effective, or are they potentially harmful digital distractions?
Literature:
Books:
Gary Small: iBrain
http://www.amazon.com/iBrain-Surviving-Technological-Alteration-Modern/dp/0061340332/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246274240&sr=8-1
Mark Bauerlein: The Dumbest generation.
http://www.amazon.com/Dumbest-Generation-Stupefies-Americans-Jeopardizes/dp/1585426393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246274298&sr=1-1
Winifred Gallagher: Rapt: Attention and the focused life.
http://www.amazon.com/Rapt-Attention-Focused-Winifred-Gallagher/dp/1594202109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246274340&sr=1-1
Articles:
Laura Miller: Why can't we Concentrate?
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/04/29/rapt/
Nicolas Carr: Is Google making us Stupid?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
Walter Kirn: The Autumn of the Multitaskers
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking
Christine Rosen: The Myth of Multitasking
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking
Claudia Wallis: The Multitasking Generation
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174696,00.html
John Naish: Warning: Brain overload.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6409208.ece
Can Twitter Make you amoral?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413180703.htm |
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Dry Lips
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TerryS
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject: Multi-tasking and Avoidance |
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Multi-tasking and Avoidance
Another article on the science of multi-tasking:
| Quote: | "One of the deepest questions in this field," Nass
says, "is whether media multitasking is driven by a
desire for new information or by an avoidance of existing
information. Are people in these settings multitasking
because the other media are alluring—that is, they're
really dying to play Freecell or read Facebook or shop
on eBay—or is it just an aversion to the task at hand?" |
http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Turn-Their-Attention/63746/
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