Website review: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus...
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•10 reviews since Apr 26, 2008
tv, internet, society
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communicatrix rated 9 days ago- A rather hopeful look at what interactive media holds. Fingers crossed...
- nixande rated 3 months ago
- Clay Shirky's speech about the so called social surplus has some great ways to think a bit different about the time "those geeks playing elves in their basement" and tv consumption. It is of course sad that the ones who will understand this text and the notion of why TV sucks are not the ones who this actually is addressed at.
- lowtechmagazine rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken."
- demonveen rated 3 months ago
- First rate article on an important phenomenon. Where do people find the time? (for Wikipedia, for free software) He'll tell you where.
- alex-hardy rated 3 months ago
- Fascinating article on the "cognitive surplus" and how we're experiencing a historic change as people participate in media rather than just consume it.
- chimichurri rated 3 months ago
- Great article elaborating on this: "Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for." Change is shaking things up...
- Mostly-Mica rated 3 months ago
- excellent From the page: "I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she's going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn't what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, "What you doing?" And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, "Looking for the mouse.""
- Celainn rated 3 months ago
- We we're not watching endless reruns of "Gilligan's Island" anymore....
- SoundsLike rated 3 months ago
- This author makes an important insight into the changing nature of entertainment. As more people become comfortable with technology, spending their time on the Internet instead of in front of a TV, millions of hours of thought will become available for projects like Wikipedia. The scale is hard to imagine: And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. Timothy Leary saw this revolution coming long ago, it will transform society as we know it.
- thewordisberry rated 3 months ago
- From the page: " If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--rising GDP per capita, rising educational attainment, rising life expectancy and, critically, a rising number of people who were working five-day work weeks. For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time. "
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