From the Huffington Post on Gen Ys and why they’re unhappy (and delusional!)
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I am a cognitive scientist, psychologist, and online learning specialist with an interest in taekwon-do, web stuff, cycling, indoor soccer and sundry other things. My staff profile at Swinburne is at http://www.lilydale.swinburne.edu.au/staff/profiles/lwise.htm. My lab website is at http://mocapsuite.edublogs.org/. I have bursts of web activity, and then large lapses. And so it's been since Al Gore invented the internet.
Alienation
Julien Burnside on Alienation A really interesting analysis of people’s need to be acknowledged, among other things …
Misunderstanding information needs
When information you need finds you first A disturbing (to me) trend in misunderstanding the way that humans use information – it’s superficially a nice idea to think that technology could determine our information “needs”, but this whole notion discounts…
“Saving normal” links
Some things we should be thinking about as psychologists – these are the free versions of discussion on the topic of “Saving Normal”, the book I’ve been banging on about that is highly critical of DSM-V and the medicalisation, overdiagnosis…
Social media becoming barometer for self-harm as rates rise – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Social media becoming barometer for self-harm as rates rise – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation. So do social media act as a barometer for self harm, or do they serve as a vector for transmission of self-harm ideas/methods? Or do…
Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics
Multisensory Law and Legal Informatics. Not sure if the link will work, but I just received a link to this article via a multisensory research group mailing list. As I understand it, these researchers are exploring the way that multisensory…
Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning | The Onion – Americas Finest News Source
Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning | The Onion – Americas Finest News Source. Nice piece on how internet advertising works …
Study finds weather changes fuel violent behaviour
Study finds weather changes fuel violent behaviour – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Voice recordings versus stenography
Interesting article from the abc website about technology versus old-school in the court room – might be of interest to you, Lucy? “If you’re typing from a digital tape then you don’t know [what you have missed] or there’s been…
ACMA report on social media and internet habits of young people
Nearly 80 per cent of Australian children under ten years of age use social networks. Among older teenagers – those 16 and 17 – parents underestimate bullying and risky online behaviour. But the most likely candidate for cyber-bullying is a…