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   . Many references to "our phones" ... prefer email and letters. No [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone | dodopaddle ]], carry an ancient pushbutton phone for emergencies. Still, it is important to know what's shriveling the psyches of half the world; the Carr book sheds some light.
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 . p76 industrialization of communication
 . p77 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Scharf | Caleb Scharf ]] 2021 [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=1&cn=3910206 | The Ascent of Information ]]
  ."implicit in such calculations is a belief that the only information that counts is information that can be encoded and transmitted by machines"
  . conflation of "count" and "countable". Digital information is countable, a smile isn't. Those doing the counting are allocating resources, hopefully fairly, but probably profitably. If you get something for free, you are the product. If you pay for it yourself, you should choose what you pay for.
  . a lot of "we" statements. [[ https://huntthedevil.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/what-do-you-mean-we-white-man/ | What do you mean we, white man? ]] - an essay by Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner which I'd never be aware of without the Internet.
 . p86 [[ https://history.berkeley.edu/david-henkin | David Henkin ]] [[ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo4134270.html | The Postal Age ]] 2006 PSU HE6371.H46 2006
 . p88 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno | Theodor Adorno ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minima_Moralia | Minima Moralia ]]
 . p93 by 2010, teenagers sent eight texts per waking hour, far more often than F2F
 . p94 texting is faster, cult of concision says [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter | John McWhorter ]]
 . p99 What we sacrifice are depth and rigor. Reactive rather than reflective
 . p100 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow | Daniel Kahneman System 1 ]] rather than controlled, deliberative System 2
 . p102 Ebbe Ebbeson UCSD 1975 [[ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222457946_Spatial_ecology_Its_effects_on_the_choice_of_friends_and_enemies#fullTextFileContent | Spatial Ecology ]] neighbors more likely friends, but EVEN MORE LIKELY ENEMIES
 . p105 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Norton_(professor) | Michael I. Norton ]] 2007 [[ https://people.duke.edu/~dandan/webfiles/PapersUpside/Less%20is%20More.pdf | Less is more: the lure of ambiguity, or why familiarity breeds contempt ]]
 .p107 Self-disclosure gets riskier as it gets deeper
 .p107 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Suler | John Suler ]] [[ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Suler/publication/8451443_The_Online_Disinhibition_Effect/links/5552544608aeaaff3befe87d/The-Online-Disinhibition-Effect.pdf | online disinhibition effect ]] oversharing is the new norm
 .p110 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Turkle | Sherry Turkle ]] [[ https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=3&cn=3094940 | Reclaiming Conversation ]] social media "anti-empathy machine"
 .p111 empathy is quality, not quantity
 .p111 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Altman | Irwin Altman ]] [[ https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-01284-001 | Dalmas A. Taylor ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/9066345 | Social Penetration: The Development of Interpersonal Relationships ]] PSU HM132.A38
  .stages: [[ https://sites.comminfo.rutgers.edu/kgreene/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/02/ACGreene-SPT.pdf | orientation (trivial), exploratory affective exchange, affective exchange, stable exchange ]]
 .p112 at any stage, conflicts can arise, fall back to earlier stage, or to acrimony
 .p113 revelation may be rewarding, bus psychically costly. "penetration" an act of love, or violation
 .p114 Altman [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_regulation_theory | privacy regulation theory ]]
 .p115 removing boundaries sets stage for discord, not harmony
 .p115 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel | Georg Simmel ]] 1903 essay [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metropolis_and_Mental_Life | The Metropolis and Mental Life ]]
 .p117 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost | Ian Bogost ]] [[ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/ | The Age of Social Media is Ending ]]
  . notes page 245 says "... Media is Over" rather than "... Media is Ending"
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aSocialMedia


Superbloom

How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Nicholas Carr 2025 . Beaverton Lib 302.231 CARR

  • Nicholas Carr

  • 2004 book: Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
  • 2008 book: The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google
  • 2010 book: The Shallows
  • 2014 book: The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
  • 2016 book: Utopia Is Creepy: and Other Provocations
  • Many references to "our phones" ... prefer email and letters. No dodopaddle, carry an ancient pushbutton phone for emergencies. Still, it is important to know what's shriveling the psyches of half the world; the Carr book sheds some light.


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