{"id":1138,"date":"2019-09-21T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T21:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/?page_id=1138"},"modified":"2019-09-21T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T21:50:38","slug":"thank-you-for-your-attention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/thank-you-for-your-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You For Your Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While listening to Tristan Harris\u2019 TED Talk \u201cHow\na handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day<\/a>\u201d I felt\ndisconnected from his speech as if he wasn\u2019t speaking to me. So I tried to\nunderstand or imagine who his audience is and read the transcript while listening\nto it a second time. Then, I reviewed his organization\u2019s web site, Center for Humane Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My impression is he isn\u2019t speaking to the public but, instead,\nto other people in the business of designing web-based applications. His\norganization is built around and promotes the idea that those designers should\nuse a human-centered design model when creating new applications, or they\nshould redesign those already in the public sphere. All I could think of while\nlearning more is Tristan Harris has a utopian dream, and I am hard-pressed to\nbelieve any of the big tech companies will take him seriously. Granted, Facebook\/Instagram,\nApple, Alphabet, and Comcast have launched features for users to view how they\nspend their time on their devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What he misses in this speech is what actually drives tech\ncompanies\u2026advertising dollars. Harris briefly mentions advertising but quickly\nmoves on. Is that because he knows advertising is the only way to avoid making\nall of these platforms subscription-based? Is he unwilling to tackle\nadvertising, consumerism, and capitalism as ills of the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simone Stolzoff puts it best when explaining the \u201ctime well\nspent\u201d movement has become a meme. \u201cWhen companies like Facebook check the\ntime-well-spent box with a few cosmetic design changes, they get credit for\nputting a bandaid on the symptom without addressing the disease.\u201d (Quartz<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like YouTube, the TED web site offers videos of similar\ncontext in a column to the right of the video currently being viewed. One of\nthose caught my eye, Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u2019s \u201cHow\ncraving attention makes you less creative<\/a>.\u201d This speech spoke to me more\ndirectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The premise of his speech centers around something I related\nto, personal responsibility. He acknowledges how easy it is to become addicted\nto social media, and to the detriment that causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon-Levitt describes the difference and importance of getting\nattention versus paying attention. Social media\u2019s seemingly primary purpose is getting\nattention directed to you. Do you sometimes feel, like me, a little jealous of\nothers who get more attention to their posts? I have commented to my partner my\nobservation that more of his Facebook friends Like or Comment on his posts than\nmy friends do on mine, even when we are both tagged in the post. Also, do you\nfind yourself checking back frequently to see how many and which of your\nfriends have reacted or commented?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He concludes his speech with a more constructive idea. Rather than viewing everyone else on social media as competitors, we should see them as collaborators. Imagine the power we can have if we are paying attention to others and they are paying attention to us. We can then begin collaborating, and the effect of paying attention becomes more potent than the feeling that comes with getting attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are your thoughts? Feel free to share them with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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