by Nick Mirzoeff — NYU
January 25, 2011 – 17:09
Call for Submissions
Distraction Span:
Technologies of engagement and opportunities for productive distraction
Cluster curators:
Alex Juhasz, Pitzer College <alex_juhasz[at]pitzer.edu>
Brian Goldfarb, UCSD <bgoldfarb[at]ucsd.edu>
We invite short, lively, multi-modal work that will kickstart new conversations that sidestep the panic over digital distraction: that is to say, the fear-inducing diagnosis that networked media is rewiring young minds, displacing valuable forms of engagement, and making sustained reflection a thing of the past. There is undeniably something new and challenging about the forms of multitasking and fragmented or interlaced communication that is fostered by the culture of new media. There is also something old about the panic over new forms of media and the perceived wholesale detriment they pose to learning and thinking. ... read more »
