Context Blindness: Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution

ISBN-13: 9781433186134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 148 str.

Eva Berger

Opis

This book shows that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies (social media, location, and sensors), we have become context blind. Since this is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon.

Recenzje

"This is an urgent, stirring, and relevant book. It revives media theory that has been unjustly pushed aside in the digital age and focuses on some of the most interesting challenges we face." -Siva Vaidhyanathan, Author, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

Spis treści

Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction - That Was Then; This Is Now: Media and Decontextualized Information - New Paradigms as Premature Symptoms: Emotional Intelligence and Soft Skills - The Power of Context and The Importance of Situations - No Sense of Place: From Television to Social Media - No Sense of Context: Mobile, Data, Sensors, and Location -Delusions: Flat Earthers, Anti- vaxxers, and Global Warming Deniers High Conflict Personality (HCP): Tribalism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture - Fragility and Hypersensitivity: Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, Trauma and Anxiety - Therapy for Context- Blind Individuals: CBT, ACT, and Social Stories - Therapy for a Context- Blind Humanity: Media Ecology as Context Analysis - Index.

O autorze

Eva Berger is Professor of Media Studies at COMAS in Israel and also serves as Secretary of the Institute of General Semantics. She is co-author of The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics. She holds a Ph.D. in media ecology from New York University.