drowning in entertainment: the age of distraction

in our visual-audio society, our main method of communication are images and videos. this has greatly affected our attention span, the purpose of news, and how we interact with information and knowledge. changing the form of a medium changes everything.

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SOURCES:
"Neil Postman Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death Part I, Dec. 1985." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRabb6_Gr2Y
"Nicholas Carr: The Shallows - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt_NwowMTcg
Odell, Jenny. 2019. "The Case for Nothing." In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.
Postman, Neil. 1985. Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman, Neil. 1998. "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change."
Postman, Neil. 1990. "Informing Ourselves to Death."


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Leonid Gurevich - Melancholy (2 Pianos, 6 Hands)
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Isaac Albéniz - Barcarola, Op.23
Chopin - Nocturne Op.48 No.1 in C Minor (Ashkenazy)
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