DocumentCode
726918
Title
Is Google Making Me Silly? Web-Extended Persons in an Interrogative Mood
Author
Rughinis, Cosima ; Rughinis, Razvan
Author_Institution
Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
fYear
2015
fDate
27-29 May 2015
Firstpage
783
Lastpage
786
Abstract
Many of us live in a state of persistent and pervasive connectivity. For quite some time, questions on whether this is doing us good or bad have increased in number and variety, as well as their answer trails. We pin our starting point in the public debate around N. Carr\´s question "Is Google making me stupid?", and we examine the questions asked and those left unasked. We propose a new vocabulary to guide our life as \´web-extended persons\´, rather than \´web-extended minds\´.
Keywords
Internet; cognition; search engines; ubiquitous computing; Google; Web-extended mind; Web-extended person; interrogative mood; persistent connectivity; pervasive connectivity; public debate; vocabulary; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Games; Google; Internet; Media; Mood; Web-extended mind; agency; extended cognition; gameworlds; voices; web-extended person;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), 2015 20th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Bucharest
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-1779-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CSCS.2015.129
Filename
7168514
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