Hello World

Hello World

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  • 2013 Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace
  • 2012 In the Flesh: Twenty Writers Explore the Body
  • 2009 Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
  • 2008 Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and the New Screen
  • 2004 Hello World: Travels in Virtuality
  • 2002 Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture
  • 2000 Inhuman Reflections: Rethinking the Limits of the Human
  • 1999 The Noon Quilt
  • 1998 Crossing The Border
  • 1995 Creative Writing : A Handbook for Workshop Leaders
  • 1994 Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women
  • 1994 Water
  • 1992 Correspondence
  • 1990 Where No Man has Gone Before: Essays on Women and Science Fiction

Snippets from the past

  • 2012 Traces of the trAce Online Writing Centre 1995-2005 | Jacket2
  • 2005 trAces: A Commemoration of Ten Years of Artistic Innovation at trAce
  • 2005 trAce Online Writing Centre Archive
  • 2004 Sistema Purificacion
  • 2003 Spivak
  • 2002 Writing Machines by N.Katherine Hayles
  • 2002 Tools of the trade
  • 2002 Stephanie Strickland: Living in the Space between Print and Online
  • 2002 No visible means of support
  • 2002 A New Sensibility? The qualities of a new media writer
  • 2001 Interview by 3am Magazine
  • 2000 lux : notes for an electronic writing
  • 2000 Evolving Practice: writers working online with trAce
  • 2000 Correspondence @ Riding the Meridian
  • 2000 ::::::In Place of the Page::::::
  • 1999 Tremble
  • 1999 The [+]Net[+] of Desire
  • 1999 Noon Quilt
  • 1999 Interview by Full Circle
  • 1998 Sharing a common language online
  • 1998 Land: Textual MOO-based virtual landscapes
  • 1998 Imagining a stone: virtual landscapes
  • 1998 Ensemble Logic + Choragraphy
  • 1998 Creative interaction in cyberspace
  • 1997 Revolver


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Dealing with distraction

Ok, I admit it, the computer has reduced my attention span. I try to pretend it hasn't, but the fact is that I read in much smaller chunks than I used to, and I can't ignore the demands of email, even if it's just to delete a fragment of spam.

This article in the New York Times (registration required) suggests there might soon be a way in which our computers will be able to protect us from the very distractions which it has created in the first place... 

Posted by Sue Thomas on Feb 13, 2005 at 08:37 PM in 17 Worries | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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This is only the beginning of their anxieties about the internet...

Page 146

- Access to personal information
- Access to source materials not such a wide range as books
- Access won’t be as freely available as a book from the library
- Addictive and time consuming.
- Advertising
- All the inaccurate information.
- Anonymity
- Because it’s not monitored (which is a way is good)
- Being sucked into distracting and non-relevant enquiries.
- Can be a time waster
- Can’t benefit in terms of likely time spent on it.
- Can't understand it.
- Changes the nature of human social contact
- Chaos
- Charges and computer ownership put the net out of reach to many. We need cheap access.
- Checking sources for research.
- Children accessing unsuitable material.
- Children meeting the wrong people.
- Complete lack of control over what's published on it
- copyright infringement
- cost and complexity
- Death of the book for more people
- Decline in royalties of print published work.
- Difficult to sift out material at the correct level for different age groups.
- Difficulty in getting control
- Dumbs down.
- Dying of boredom with self-styled experts.
- Easy access it gives to children.
- Easy access to drugs/porn
- Effect on public reference libraries.
- E-mails, spam - too much
- Encourages zombie like addiction in the young.
- Erosion of copyright concept
- Everything
- Expose me to viruses and junk e-mail.
- Eye strain
- Failures in technology when I've planned to work.
- Filtering out all the rubbish when searching, bad design, e-commerce security
- Fraud
- Getting known
- Getting unwanted material
- Government interference.
- How I overcome my resistance and how to spare the time to get information.
- I am more interested in the content of knowledge than the form.
- I don't understand it. I don't see the need of it.
- I don't want a lot of unsolicited e-mails
- I have enough trouble using my computer
- I think children may learn erroneous facts
- I wouldn't want my children to access violence, pornography etc.
- I'm too old (84) to learn new tricks
- Increasing Government controls (or attempts)
- Information overload
- Intrusion
- It is overhyped.

and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on ...

Posted by Sue Thomas on May 03, 2004 at 07:18 AM in 17 Worries | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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