Tag: post-truth

Your Attention Please 9/10

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Your Attention Please 9/10Attention, Brodie Fenton, Buzzfeed, Craig Silverman, Paul Kennedy, post-truth, Sue Gardner

We love our phones. App developers create spaces online that we can’t resist.  They want us to “Stay, play and pay with our attention or personal data”. (Paul Kennedy, Ideas podcast) The adoption of the smart phone was one of the most massive and ubiquitous technological uptakes in our history.  When we go from laptop to […]

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A World of Feelings, Not Facts 7/10

Donna Miller Fry1 Comment on A World of Feelings, Not Facts 7/10algorithm, cbc Ideas, Facebook, fact, Hossein Derakhshan, post-truth, social media, video

In our online world, increasingly dominated by social media, feelings are more important than facts. This is the assertion of Hossein Derakhshan, an idea that I first encountered on Screened Off: The Dangers of the Insular Web. As an online teacher, I always considered video to be an excellent tool to engage learners.  But do we […]

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