Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community's need to know.
--Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, 1967
For an interesting perspective on social and electronic media, check out The Public Isolation Project. Cristin Norine has devoted the entire month of November (even Thanksgiving!) to living in a glass storefront, only able to communicate with others through electronic media. CNN featured her last week:
Her time is coming to a close, but check out her blog for some thought-provoking meditations on what it is like to interact only through social media. One commenter compared her undertaking to Joshua Slocum, Sir Francis Chichester, and Amelia Earhart, showing us that now that we have conquered the natural environment, our media environment is the true frontier.
Via: Read Schuchardt
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