[-empyre-] Distraction: Being Human in the Digital Age

[Martin John Callanan <m@itakephotos.co.uk>]

While not an especially well written nor insightful book, 'Distraction:
Being Human in the Digital Age', Mark Curtis, 2005 manages to draw together
lots of research on these ideas. It may be a useful starting point.

> 
> What might be useful to discuss is whether the concept of 'space' is
> relevant to the notion of mobility. Perhaps what we are dealing with is
> different ways of being within time. Are mobile phones changing how we are
> to ourselves and to others? Do they influence our sense of self? Is the
> mobility that is at the heart of the mobile phone creating mobile, mulitple
> ?egos? or ?selves??   Who or what is the remote ?other??
> 


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