Comments on: Are social networks creating a generation of techno addicts? http://andrewgrill.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/are-social-networks-creating-a-generation-of-techno-addicts/ about all things social & mobile Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:34:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charles Frith http://andrewgrill.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/are-social-networks-creating-a-generation-of-techno-addicts/comment-page-1/#comment-2585 Charles Frith Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:35:26 +0000 http://andrewgrill.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-2585 The answer has to be yes. But it destroys the notion that all addictions are harmful I used to read boring books, watch crap TV and now I'm an social info junkie and happy with it. I'm also addicted to air, freshly baked bread, cooked breakfasts with black pudding, sex and sleep but nobody ever has a problem with those. The answer has to be yes. But it destroys the notion that all addictions are harmful I used to read boring books, watch crap TV and now I’m an social info junkie and happy with it. I’m also addicted to air, freshly baked bread, cooked breakfasts with black pudding, sex and sleep but nobody ever has a problem with those.

]]> By: AnneMarie Cunningham http://andrewgrill.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/are-social-networks-creating-a-generation-of-techno-addicts/comment-page-1/#comment-2503 AnneMarie Cunningham Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:33:51 +0000 http://andrewgrill.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-2503 In the past week or so I have been blogging about another Sigel Press Special Report on Techno Addicts (this time secondary school pupils) by the same authors. http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tech-addiction-harms-learning-really.html The science in the report was woeful. Have you actually read the report you quote here? I wonder if it is a similar standard to the other but I do not particularly want to have to spend $24.99 more to find out. The press release from Cranfield University contains the gem that this study "reveals that one in three people in the world admit to being addicted to technology". Wonderful! They interviewed everyone in the world. I wondered why any academic would put their name to work so poor but I guess that Stephen Waddington is right and that it is just a PR stunt. Why do the press respond so naively then? In the past week or so I have been blogging about another Sigel Press Special Report on Techno Addicts (this time secondary school pupils) by the same authors.
http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/2009/09/tech-addiction-harms-learning-really.html
The science in the report was woeful.
Have you actually read the report you quote here? I wonder if it is a similar standard to the other but I do not particularly want to have to spend $24.99 more to find out.
The press release from Cranfield University contains the gem that this study “reveals that one in three people in the world admit to being addicted to technology”. Wonderful! They interviewed everyone in the world.

I wondered why any academic would put their name to work so poor but I guess that Stephen Waddington is right and that it is just a PR stunt. Why do the press respond so naively then?

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]]> By: Stephen Waddington http://andrewgrill.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/are-social-networks-creating-a-generation-of-techno-addicts/comment-page-1/#comment-2501 Stephen Waddington Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:01:06 +0000 http://andrewgrill.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-2501 Its PR stunt, of course, aimed at getting brand visiability for Northampton University aligned to social media. But that makes it no less a serious topic. I'm always surprised by the number of people at galleries or gigs, who rather than looking at art or chilling out and listening to the music, click-away tweeting and texting on their mobiles. Great that we share, but surely that erodes the original authentic experience? Its PR stunt, of course, aimed at getting brand visiability for Northampton University aligned to social media. But that makes it no less a serious topic.

I’m always surprised by the number of people at galleries or gigs, who rather than looking at art or chilling out and listening to the music, click-away tweeting and texting on their mobiles. Great that we share, but surely that erodes the original authentic experience?

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