During the school year, I introduced students to the abbreviation cpa, short for the term Continuous Partial Attention coined by Linda Stone. To be expected, all my students could relate to this cultural phenomenon and were quick to point out that it's not only their age demographic that falls prey to cpa. We read several articles as class assignments in preparation for our own Google Survey and argument essay. Our question was based on the Renny Gleeson TED presentation on the Culture of Availability: Can technology make us more human(e)?
Today, Dr. Kristen Purcell will be speaking at the Young Adult Library Services Association
Kristen Purcell's work is part of the Pew Internet & American Life Project
Check out this SlideShare presentation. I was most surprised by the statistics on texting.
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