1. Technology and us... Created by Brett Oppegaard for Washington State University Vancouver's DTC 375 class, fall 2009

2. Text messaging – Is this 'new' technology anymore? How do you use text messaging? How has text messaging changed us? Has this been for the better or...?

3. Twitter How do you use Twitter? How has Twitter changed us? Has this been for the better or...?

4. Is this all just for amusement,... or something else? “What we are encountering is a panicky, an almost hysterical, attempt to escape from the deadly anonymity of modern life … and the prime cause is not vanity … but the craving of people who feel their personality sinking lower and lower into the whirl of indistinguishable atoms to be lost in a mass civilization.” Henry Canby (1926) about life on an assembly line, in a modern metropolis (via Michael Wesch, Kansas State University, at Personal Democracy Forum 2009)

5. Wesch contends... We know ourselves through our relations with others. New media create new ways of relating to others. New media create new ways of knowing ourselves. So what do we see now when we look in the mirror?

6. Overload? Or just multi-tasking... “I think the reason why print magazines are still very popular is because you kind of have the feeling, okay, this is like one issue, and this is what happened this week. And on the Internet … there's no beginning and no end.” – Anonymous 18-year-old Harvard student Source: “Overload” chapter in “Born Digital by J. Palfrey and U. Gasser.

7. Overload? Or just multi-tasking... In 2007 alone, 161 billion gigabytes of digital content were created, or 3 million times the amount of information stored in all of the books ever written. The estimate for 2010: 988 billion gigabytes. Source: “Overload” chapter in “Born Digital by J. Palfrey and U. Gasser.

8. Overload? Or just multi-tasking... In 2007, 8.5 percent of youth gamers in the U.S. could have been classified as pathologically addicted to playing video games. Clinicians have begun to develop diagnostic criteria for determining risk of Internet addiction: Do you feel preoccupied with the Internet, anticipating the next time you can go online? Is the amount of time you are spending on the Internet growing? Has your Internet use ever jeopardized or damaged a personal relationship? Do you ever lie about the amount of time you spend on the Internet, to deceive friends or family members? Source: “Overload” chapter in “Born Digital by J. Palfrey and U. Gasser.

9. Overload? Or just multi-tasking... Definition of information overload: “When the amount of information available exceeds a person's ability to process it.” Source: “Overload” chapter in “Born Digital by J. Palfrey and U. Gasser.

10. Overload? Or just multi-tasking... In response to information overload: How do you know when you have searched enough? Or avoid paralysis by analysis? How do you filter? Do you find yourself surrounded by information that you agree with? How do you create personal boundaries? Source: “Overload” chapter in “Born Digital by J. Palfrey and U. Gasser.