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Authors: Sherry Turkle
videos of people happy to engage:
One classic sequence with Kismet is “Kismet and Rich,” MIT AI video, http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/sociable/movies/kismet-and-rich.mov.
there will be “empathy apps” to teach compassion and consideration:
See, for example, the work of Richard J. Davidson of the University of Wisconsin, who, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
is developing handheld games to teach a range of skills, from attention to empathy. For the announcement of this work, see Jill Sakai, “Educational Games to Train Middle Schoolers' Attention, Empathy,”
University of Wisconsin-Madison News
, May 21, 2012, http://www.news.wisc.edu/20704. On the work of the center, see http://www.investigatinghealthyminds.org/cihmProjMeditation.html. Mindfulness training is a large part of the curriculum.
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acting out,
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addiction,
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multitasking and,
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misuse of phrase “internet addiction” and,
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Addison, Joseph,
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advertising:
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to present family dinner as a place for technology,
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affective, meaning of word,
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affective computing,
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Agarwal, Anant,
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algorithmic (quantified) self,
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algorithms:
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alone,
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solitude
Alone Together
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ALS Foundation,
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“Ancient Greek Hero, The” (name of Harvard MOOC),
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anthropologists and sociologists (conversation working in the ethnographic tradition),
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academic,
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about being alone with thoughts,
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about being left out,
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about conversation,
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about disconnection,
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about missing out,
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about speaking in class,
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apologies:
by text,
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Apple,
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fantasies of a “friction-free” life and,
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view of world as,
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Arendt, Hannah,
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arguments,
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artificial intelligence,
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vulnerability to,
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machines; robots
artificial speech,
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Atlantic,
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brain and,
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attention,
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in class,
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continuous partial,
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divided,
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multitasking and, see multitasking
unitasking and, see unitasking
attentional pluralism,
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Austen, Jane,
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backchanneling, in classrooms and meetings,
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behavioral economics,
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behavioral therapy (cognitive),
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Bentham, Jeremy,
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Bettelheim, Bruno,
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blogging,
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Bloom, Allan,
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boredom,
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challenge of,
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in classroom,
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negotiating,
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willingness to shock oneself to avoid,
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quiet moments and silence
Born Digital
(John Palfrey and Urs Gasser),
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Boston Consulting Group (BCG),
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emotional processing in,
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eye contact,
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mirror neurons in,
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plasticity of,
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“use it or lose it” quality of,
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brainstorming, versus the greater productivity of people thinking creatively on their own,
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breakfast meetings as facilitators of conversation,
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breast-feeding while texting,
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browsers, privacy and,
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Bucciarelli, Louis,
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business,
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work, workplace; work meetings
call centers, increased productivity if employees have occasions to talk together,
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caring, meaning of word,
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Carson, Rachel,
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catastrophe culture,
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cell phones,
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chairs, as a metaphor for thinking about conversation, inspired by Henry David Thoreau,
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second (for friends, family, and romantic partners),
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fourth (for machines),
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student collaboration and,
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Chatroulette,
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child-parent relationships,
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parents and children
choice,
infinite,
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paradox of,
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civil rights movement,
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importance of “strong ties” to,
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Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in,
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C.K., Louis,
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classrooms,
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actors as potential teachers in online courses,
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anonymous polling and comments in,
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anxiety about speaking in,
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blended or flipped,
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boredom in,
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clickers, use of in,
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defending ideas in real time in,
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devices in,
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discussions in,
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hyper attention and,
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lectures in,
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multitasking in,
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non-cognitive skills and,
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no-phone rules in,
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note taking in,
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technology and,
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texting in,
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Twitter and,
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education; schools, schoolchildren
climate change, talking about,
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cockpit analogy,
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pilot in cockpit analogy
Coding War Games,
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coffeehouses, political virtues of,
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collaboration,
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illusion of,
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intimacy and,
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multitasking and,
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students and,
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work meetings
college students,
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collaboration among,
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and communicating with faculty,
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decline in empathy in,
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educational videos and,
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face-to-face meetings of,
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and value of conversations,
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Columbia University,
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commoditization, (of professional work)
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family and,
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computer games,
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computer culture, transition from psychoanalytic culture to,
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computer programmers,
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computers:
programs for that disenable WiFi,
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in classrooms,
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concentration,
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focus and attention
conflict,
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in families,
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learning from moments of,
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conformity:
and the online life,
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and crowdsourcing,
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and other-direction,
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connection:
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disconnection anxiety and,
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moving from conversation to,
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short bits of,
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consolation and support, found in texts and electronic messages,
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Constitution (U.S.),
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