From the Huffington Post: How technology is killing eye contact I can think of a few easy experiments arising from this …
Month: September 2013
Norman’s Immersion Study Link
Please find below a copy of Norman’s email he sent to us during the week with the link to his online questionnaire. The link to the survey is here: http://opinio.online.swin.edu.au/s?s=14374 “Feel free to browse through the questions or just have…
Special Gen Y “GYPSYs”
From the Huffington Post on Gen Ys and why they’re unhappy (and delusional!)
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…
The Social Media Generation
I don’t know if Claire has access to this blog yet, but she sent me a comic on Friday that i think you will all enjoy. The Social Media Generation