[book] The Digital Divide, by by Mark Bauerlein ISBN-10 1585428868

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"The Digital Divide: arguments for and against Facebook, Google Texting"
by Mark Bauerlein, ISBN-10 1585428868, ISBN-13 9781585428861

the amazon.com reference is
http://www.amazon.co...8868/ref=sr_1_1

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I found this browsing a REAL book store
(much more pleasant to hold a book than to be hunched over a keyboard and monitor IMO )
and found several topics of interest. Mr Bauerlein has produced a compendium of
articles by various authors which delve into the social and psychology aspects
that Internet has created (besides all the GUI / search stuff). The one that really caught my eye was
the the chapter new narcissism which identifies the reasons why people (especially teenagers)
will gravitate to online conversations (aka Facebook, Instant Messaging (IM) and Texting)
rather than risk face-to-face or voice communications.

This book will help you understand the new media and the social
effects they are having on all of us. There's one comment by an guest author who
said

"I'm starting to become impatient when reading something like Pride and Prejudice
as it feels too wordy. From reading Internet articles, I am finding that I expect
'instant gratification' and shorter sentences. It's becoming harder to retain focus
on the subject".

(see the chapter Is Google making us stupid?)

While I too have a Facebook page (an attempt to make sure JOBEARD is me
and not someone else; we call that 'owning a name space'), I am amazed
to see the topics so willingly posted to the public Internet and the language
used by many.

The TOC reads
Section One: the brain, the sense