Clay Shirky Archives

education & learning psychology systems thinking

My troubled relationship with social media

April 1, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 1124 Views Clay Shirky, Douglas Rushkoff, Facebook, Instagram, journalism, LinkedIn, mental health, mindfulness, Pinterest, psychology, social media, social networks, technology, Twitter, YouTube

Do you care about donuts? I did, once. I’m not so sure anymore. I used to love donuts, was passionate

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The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 704 Views CDC, Clay Shirky, complex systems, contemplative inquiry, design thinking, Facebook, John Bohannon, journalism, metacognition, mindfulness, mobile phones, organizational change, public health, research, resilience, science, social media, systems thinking, The Economist, tribes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zombie

Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.

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Of digital riptides and original sin — was the decline of newspapers inevitable?

July 25, 2013July 25, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 494 Views Clay Shirky, Clayton Christensen, disruption, disruptive innovation, Internet, Matthew Ingram, media, newspapers

Matthew Ingram does a good job of doing a retrospective on the state of newspapers and questioning the fit their

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Mindful Navigation of Complexity and Social Media

July 4, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 553 Views Buddhify, Clay Shirky, complexity, contemplative inquiry, health behaviour change, information, Marshall McLuhan, media, media ecology, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, Mitch Joel, news, psychology, social media, wellbeing

If we are to mindfully design our social media ecology and do it in a manner that promotes empathy and connection, rather than overwhelms us; engenders learning and insight over simple content absorption; and promotes creativity and innovation rather than just talks about it, we need to answer the question more intently and act accordingly.