http://www.dld-conference.com Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:40:00 +0200 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/does-twitter-make-our-brains-go-mushy_aid_2554.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/does-twitter-make-our-brains-go-mushy_aid_2554.html Bill Keller is the Executive Editor at the NYT, the newspaper that was one of the first to create the position of "social media editor" to professionalize the interface between website and social networks. In fact, the Times is seen as a model of

]]> Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:35:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-facebook-effect_aid_2196.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-facebook-effect_aid_2196.html I was an English major in college. I had no awareness as a student of the importance of technology in human progress. But I had the good fortune to find a job as a writer at Fortune Magazine beginning in 1983. In two and a half decades there I had a

]]> Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:59:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/embedded-journalism_aid_2151.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/embedded-journalism_aid_2151.html Much has been talked about the importance of "social media" in a digital age. Yet the term itself is a double tautology. Media is always social unless we conceive of it strictly as the technical transmission of information and signals between two

]]> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:23:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-fragile-democracy_aid_2119.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-fragile-democracy_aid_2119.html To assess the impact of the digital revolution on politics, one needs to remember two basic truths about the Internet. First, the Web allows like-minded people to find each other and pursue common goals. Second, it increases the velocity and

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:25:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-shallows_aid_2033.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-shallows_aid_2033.html Although the World Wide Web has been around for just 20 years, it has become so deeply entwined in our intellectual, social, and work lives that it is hard to imagine living without it. Thanks to the technology, we now have instant access to vast

]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:23:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-end-of-forgetting_aid_1998.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/the-end-of-forgetting_aid_1998.html Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the

]]> Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:45:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/a-theory-of-digitality_aid_1995.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/a-theory-of-digitality_aid_1995.html The influence of the internet presents man with a new array of great challenges. Existential philosophical questions must be posed anew in light of radical cultural and behavioral changes. We need a Theory of Digitality. We have philosophical

]]> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:48:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/a-new-medium-requires-a-new-literacy_aid_1992.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/a-new-medium-requires-a-new-literacy_aid_1992.html Ask any kid what Facebook is for and he'll tell you it's there to help him make friends. What else could he think? It's how he *does* make friends. He has no idea the real purpose of the software, and the people coding it, is to monetize his

]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:41:00 +0100 http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/das-deutsche-paradoxon_aid_1972.html http://www.dld-conference.com/debate/article/das-deutsche-paradoxon_aid_1972.html Anxiety about privacy, it turns out, often rises out of new technology and the change it brings. The first discussion of a legal right to privacy in the U.S. did not come until 1890, brought about by the invention of the portable Kodak camera, the

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