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

ISBN-13: 9781433197284 / Angielski / Miękka / 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

"In Context Blindness, Dr. Eva Berger presents a persuasive case that human beings, shaped by the media environments we have created, are evolving to a species that will not or cannot attend to the contexts we inhabit. Our ever-present connection to the internet that first intruded upon our sacred spaces (family dinner, classrooms, and churches) has now simply erased our understanding of how behaviors and spaces might differ. This erasure has replaced questions about what subjects and actions are appropriate in a specific context with arguments about trigger warnings and safe spaces-ultimately making no space safe. The algorithms that rule our lives are encouraging cancel culture and blinding us to the very idea of perspective. With an artful and passionate prose, Berger has issued a warning that the toxic human behaviors we are observing may be a natural selection provoked by our own inventions."-Missy Alexander, Provost, Western Connecticut State University

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.