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‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here’s why that happens.
I am planning an online experiential learning workshop using Zoom. This is a good balanced article about how it effects your head. What struck me in the prep for the Zoom session was how you are in two places at once, online and offline, which takes some getting used to.
Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak
Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19. Exploring the idea of cyberspace as a digital place which is an adjunct to physical, analogue space. This article shows how understanding digital space changes our perceptions of analogue space.
Where You Are Makes You Who You Are
I am interested in what happens if we treat the intenet, or the web, cyberspace, as a real place. Rob Kitchin and Matin Dodge talk about code/space where digital code is integrated with physical or analogue space. A checkout in a shop for example, is useless without code and connection to the internet. The code/space has an influence on behaviour, ie no connection, no sale. We also behave differently at home, at work, in our shower or in the pub. To some extent where you are makes you who you are. I am an employee, only at work. This links into performance theories and humanistic geography and other areas. This is an interesting article about how being 'witnessed' makes us change our behaviour and our perceptions. Thus CCTV could change public behaviour.
The Internet As Place
This links to ideas by James Bridle, that we use the internet on our pc's and devices, and it inhabits 'The Cloud' and forget it is a physical thing. All our data is on a server somewhere, which means it is on a hard drive in a building owned by someone somewhere. The building will be remote from whatever location you are in, so it has to be transmitted through devices in the real physical world. This is a great bit of art as research, in terms of the photographer researching the internet as a physical, offline, entity.
Some creative ways of confusing AI facial recognition.
An interesting article from Mutant Supremacy about designs people are working on to confuse AI and facial recognition so the MET and other agencies cannot read your face in public urban area.
What has Sat-Nav done to our brains?
Interesting programme suggests that our sense of identity and our memories are linked to a sense of place and connect the capacity to tell stories about ourselves at a physiological level through the hippocampus. If we learn to know where we are in space by using a map (as opposed to sat-nav) we have develop …
The Analogue Human
The offline and online worlds are also analogue and digital worlds. We live in both. Analogue is the thing. Digital is the code to make the thing. BBC Radio 4 show The Digital Human made entirely with analogue technology. Yes they really did cut up the tape and splice it. Monday June 10th. "To celebrate …