Context Blindness
Digital Technology and the Next Stage of Human Evolution
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book shows that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies (social media, location, and sensors), we have become context blind. Since this is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior, people with autism...
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This book shows that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies (social media, location, and sensors), we have become context blind. Since this is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon.
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Are people with autism giving us a glimpse into our future human condition? Could we be driving our own evolution with our technology and, in fact, be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution? The thesis at the center of this book is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. Since context blindness-or caetextia in Latin-is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior at the highest levels of the spectrum, people with autism may indeed be giving us a peek into our human condition soon. We could be witnessing the beginning of the next stage of human evolution-Homo caetextus. With increasingly frequent floods and fires and unbearably hot summers, the human footprint on our planet should be evident to all, but it is not because we are context blind. We can now see and feel global warming. We are witnessing evolution in real-time and birthing our successor species. Our great-grandchildren may be a species very distinct from us. This book is a must for all communication and media studies courses dealing with digital technology, media, culture, and society. And a general reading public concerned with the polarized public sphere, difficulties in sustaining democratic governance, rampant conspiracies, and phenomena such as cancel culture and the need for trigger warnings and safe spaces, will find it enlightening.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Context Blindness “
Preface - Acknowledgments - Introduction - That Was Then; This Is Now: Media and Decontextualized Information - New Paradigms as Premature Symptoms: Emotional Intelligence and Soft Skills - The Power of Context and The Importance of Situations - No Sense of Place: From Television to Social Media - No Sense of Context: Mobile, Data, Sensors, and Location -Delusions: Flat Earthers, Anti- vaxxers, and Global Warming Deniers High Conflict Personality (HCP): Tribalism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture - Fragility and Hypersensitivity: Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, Trauma and Anxiety - Therapy for Context- Blind Individuals: CBT, ACT, and Social Stories - Therapy for a Context- Blind Humanity: Media Ecology as Context Analysis - Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Eva Berger
Eva Berger is Professor of Media Studies at COMAS in Israel and also serves as Secretary of the Institute of General Semantics. She is co-author of The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics. She holds a Ph.D. in media ecology from New York University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Eva Berger
- 2022, Neuausgabe, XIV, 148 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Lance Strate
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1433197286
- ISBN-13: 9781433197284
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"At once a penetrating social analysis and an eloquent lament for where we are now and where we may be headed, this book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the source of our failings and delusions. Dr. Berger presents a clear, cogent, and concise diagnosis of the ills of present-day culture, one that is essential if we are to begin to seek healing by reclaiming our real, human contexts once more."-Douglas Rushkoff, Author, Present Shock and Team Human
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