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Facebook Logout: Experiences and Reasons to Leave it

Facebook Logout: Experiences and Reasons to Leave it is available to download as a free eBooklet in different formats at Smashwords. Also is available at different ebook stores as Barnes & Noble and Kobo. A special thank you to the contributors. This is the Table of Contents: Chapter ...

Cybersocialità: la morte della socialità

This is a guest post in Italian only. The English version will be available in the future.

The Digitization of Reality

excerpt from Chapter 4 of “The Digitally Divided Self : Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet“ The technological society increasingly permeates more segments of our life. Social connections, finance, work, research, news, dating, entertainment, shopping are some of the activities that have moved massively to the Net. These ...

Review of “The Digitally Divided Self” by Self-Publishing Review

Henry Baum wrote a review of The Digitally Divided Self on Self-Publishing Review with some interesting considerations about the mind, technology and drugs: This book begins with blurbs from some very heavy hitters, and some of my favorite writers, on the subject of new media – writers like ...

Review of “The Digitally Divided Self” by Semiotico blog

Chris Arning wrote a thoughtful review of The Digitally Divided Self on his Semiotico blog: If I had to sum up this book I might say “Marshall McLuhan meets the Dalai Lama”, but this is too trite, simplistic a verdict for what is an important and erudite text ...

Reasons to Leave Facebook

We are all familiar with active music bands, politicians, and actors, but we know much less about them after they change or stop their careers, resign, or retire. Often, however, the most interesting stories happen after someone consciously chooses a new life path. Similarly, while participating in Facebook, ...

Reading Aloud

“The printed or mass-produced book discouraged reading aloud, and reading aloud had been the practice of many centuries. Swift, silent scanning is a very different experience from manuscript perusal, with its acoustic invitation to savor words and phrases in many-leveled resonance. Silent reading has had many consequences for ...

The game of Facebook

In one of my rare Facebook appearances, I mumbled about the absurdity of spending more than an hour to carefully read (as it should be with people we care about) a friend’s updates of the last hour. The last comment I received on my note (in Italian) was, ...

The Roots of Information Technology

excerpt from Chapter 3 of “The Digitally Divided Self : Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet“ In the West there are layers of deep conviction that keep us bound to the idea that everything good will come from economic and technological development. Despite a few doubting voices, those ...

“It’s Only a Tool”?

excerpt from Chapter 2 of “The Digitally Divided Self : Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet“ Order on Amazon. “It’s Only a Tool” If there were a law stating that “people should stay in front of a screen for most of their waking time, both indoors and out, ...

The Digitally Divided Self: Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet

The Digitally Divided Self: Relinquishing our Awareness to the Internet is on Amazon. ISBN 9788897233008 274 Pages – Format: 6″ x 9″ – $17.90 (discounted on Amazon) It is nearly half a century since Marshall McLuhan pointed out that the medium is the message. In the interim, digital ...

The Digitally Divided Self. Table of Contents, Introduction and Chapter 1

Order on Amazon. Table of Contents Chapter 1: From Awareness of technology to technologies of Awareness .. 1 The Limits of Technology.. 3 What’s Not Computable Isn’t Real .. 4 The Promises of the Early Internet .. 5 From Information Processing to Consciousness Processing.. 6 All in the ...

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