Mathias Klangs kurs "Det sårbara IT-samhället" har en blogg som håller på att bli riktigt intressant. I veckan lyfte han fram en lista från the Telegraph som var någon sorts lista över kulturförändringar som inträffar som en följd av olika fenomen på nätet.
Femtio sådana förändringar är ganska många, så låt mig lyfta fram några:
1) The art of polite disagreement While the inane spats of YouTube commencers may not be representative, the internet has certainly sharpened the tone of debate. The most raucous sections of the blogworld seem incapable of accepting sincerely held differences of opinion; all opponents must have "agendas".
5) Punctuality Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments and turn up to the pub on time. Texting friends to warn them of your tardiness five minutes before you are due to meet has become one of throwaway rudenesses of the connected age.
7) Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase The ubiquity of free, hard-core pornography on the web has put an end to one of the most dreaded rights rites of passage for teenage boys – buying dirty magazines. Why tremble in the WHSmiths queue when you can download mountains of filth for free in your bedroom? The trend also threatens the future of "porn in the woods" – the grotty pages of Razzle and Penthouse that scatter the fringes of provincial towns and villages.
17) Watching television together On-demand television, from the iPlayer in Britain to Hulu in the US, allows relatives and colleagues to watch the same programmes at different times, undermining what had been one of the medium's most attractive cultural appeals – the shared experience. Appointment-to-view television, if it exists at all, seems confined to sport and live reality shows.
23) Reading telegrams at weddings Quoting from a wad of email printouts doesn't have the same magic.
42) The nervous thrill of the reunion You've spent the past five years tracking their weight-gain on Facebook, so meeting up with your first love doesn't pack the emotional punch it once did.
50) Your lunchbreak Did you leave your desk today? Or snaffle a sandwich while sending a few personal emails and checking the price of a week in Istanbul?
Resten av listan är också bra.
/Simon
"...som håller på att bli riktigt intressant..." Tackar :)
Posted by: Mathias Klang | 10 september 2009 at 19:58
Ja, jag ser fram emot fortsättningen! Och kursen verkar spännande trots att den åtminstone genom namnet framhäver de "negativa" aspekterna av IT-samhället.
Posted by: Simon | 10 september 2009 at 20:30