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sociomedia thought.
Neil Postman's definition of technological thinking:
"any systematic and repeatable technique that tends to cause
people constrain their thinking about the world"
This is a very astute thought. Postman asserted that that Americans have oriented on this thinking. Well, I don't want to claim that Americans are that special. But I see it in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbAPtGYiRvg&feature=youtu.be
I don't think that he's very aware of the online world and how it plays out, but the boxing of people's thinking into some kind of system is terribly, terribly, terribly subtle and terribly real.
"any systematic and repeatable technique that tends to cause
people constrain their thinking about the world"
This is a very astute thought. Postman asserted that that Americans have oriented on this thinking. Well, I don't want to claim that Americans are that special. But I see it in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbAPtGYiRvg&feature=youtu.be
I don't think that he's very aware of the online world and how it plays out, but the boxing of people's thinking into some kind of system is terribly, terribly, terribly subtle and terribly real.