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The name… | theoffbutton
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Google makes us stupid…or does it? Posted by J.Ticona. Last week my boyfriend Dan and I were walking our. Gifted puppy and something strange (or maybe not so strange) happened. Dan had a particularly hectic week managing his work from our home, which involves A LOT of phone calls, and was ready to “unplug” from the office and run around with our dog. He took his Blackberry out of his pocket and was about to hand it off to me, when he realized. He didn’t know how to turn it off. How then, do people take t...
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theoffbutton | Experiments in tech/life | Page 2
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Newer posts →. Posted by J.Ticona. Welcome to my The Off Button. This blog will include my thoughts on various tech-related topics, but also a few self-experiments that (I hope) will give me a better understanding of what it’s like to live in our connected, hyper-linked, social networked, just-in-time world without access to the things we’ve come to depend on. Restricting my e-mail and internet access. Taking trips without GPS. Only using landline phones. Not paying any bills online. Newer posts →.
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The Machine in the White House: Obama’s techno-arrogance | theoffbutton
https://theoffbuttonblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/the-machine-in-the-white-house-obamas-techno-arrogance
Is “nomophobia” real? 8220;Addicted” to our devices? The Machine in the White House: Obama’s techno-arrogance. Posted by J.Ticona. I’ve been noticing that, in the run-up to next month’s election, the candidates haven’t been talking about technology as much as they did during the last time around. While Obama kept up the rhetorical support for science and technology throughout his tenure, he’s been suffering attacks for his support of Solyndra. In a recent nationwide poll. Americans ranked technology comp...
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Is “nomophobia” real? | theoffbutton
https://theoffbuttonblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/is-nomophobia-real
Finding the road home (without GPS! The Machine in the White House: Obama’s techno-arrogance →. Is “nomophobia” real? Posted by J.Ticona. The LA Times recently reported that a California addiction treatment center has begun treating its clients for “nomophobia” or “no-mobile-phone phobia.” Someone who is nomophobic might go to great lengths to avoid being without their cell phone, such that their relationships, health, and work deteriorate as a result. As a sociologist, the definition of a new phobia by ...
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Finding the road home (without GPS!) | theoffbutton
https://theoffbuttonblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/finding-the-road-home-without-gps
Google makes us stupid…or does it? Is “nomophobia” real? Finding the road home (without GPS! Posted by J.Ticona. When I started this blog I had an idea that, on my annual road trip back home to upstate NY, I would attempt to drive the 487 miles without using any GPS technology. I would look at maps, plan my route, and drive without any idea of my estimated time of arrival and then write about it here. My Dad, while driving me around as a child would ask me questions like, “Julia, which way is North?
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“Addicted” to our devices? | theoffbutton
https://theoffbuttonblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/addicted-to-our-devices
The Machine in the White House: Obama’s techno-arrogance. Rogue Rolex Reviews and Social Trust →. 8220;Addicted” to our devices? Posted by J.Ticona. I came across this great study done by the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda ( ICMPA. And the University of Maryland. They’ve made a great blog about their findings: http:/ theworldunplugged.wordpress.com/. They found that the students described not only missing the functions of the devices (delivering e-mail, filling up time waiting in li...
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Google makes us stupid…or does it? | theoffbutton
https://theoffbuttonblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/google-makes-us-stupid-or-does-it
Finding the road home (without GPS! Google makes us stupid…or does it? Posted by J.Ticona. In 2008, Nicholas Carr wrote a hugely influential piece in The Atlantic –. Is Google Making us Stupid? More recently, Chad Wellmon, a faculty fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC, where I’m a fellow too! Wrote a wonderful piece of historical and cultural analysis for the IASC’s. Wellmon argues that these two narratives are mistaken representations of the relationship we find ourselves in ...
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Rogue Rolex Reviews & Social Trust | theoffbutton
https://theoffbuttonblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/rogue-rolex-reviews-social-trust
8220;Addicted” to our devices? Rogue Rolex Reviews and Social Trust. Posted by J.Ticona. While snark is apparently the official language. Of the Internet, for better or for worse, it’s not very often that you come across random acts of sarcasm in places you don’t expect…like Amazon. In my husband’s aimless browsing, he recently found a treasure trove of sarcastic reviews of ridiculously expensive watches: a $34,000. Rolex, an $81,779. Zenith (has anyone heard of this brand before? Portlandia reference...
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