Digital Tattoos, Digital Hoarding, and Social Networking: Turning Gold into Lead

Posted October 25th, 2007 by Jared Bendis

Conference	Symposium on the Evolution of Communication
Conference Track	The Evolution of Communication
Session Audience	all
Skill Level	all
Session URL	http://blog.case.edu/jaredjared/2007/12/04/websites_from_my_talk

Session Description

Communication, is it evolving or devolving? Are we going to Heaven in a Wheelbarrow or Hell in a Handbasket? Are we filling needs or feeding dysfunctional obsessions? This presentation takes a critical look at how some forms of communication revert the user to their basest of instincts and how unchecked an unobserved we might be turning gold into lead. Along the way asking what messages are we sending, to those around us and to future generations?