To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 7 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: According to Neil Postman, all of twentieth century child psychology research has been mere commentary on the basic childhood paradigm. Here’s Bowlby’s “comment”: Early safe and secure attachment relationships with a predictable, consistent, and available attachment figure (typically […]
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Hunters and Gatherers Go To the Movies
Back in February, 2013, I wrote a two-part blog series entitled What’s So Social About Machine Media? In this blog series I mentioned a 2010 book by psychologist and social critic Dr. Mack Hicks entitled The Digital Pandemic—Reestablishing Face-to-Face Contact in the Electronic Age. In his book Hicks spends a lot of time talking about […]
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