The Future University Conference at The University of Cambridge, June 30, 2011
View video footage of Cathy Davidson’s talk on Digital Literacies and the Future of the Humanities.
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Inside Higher Ed: 'Now You See It' Q&A with Cathy Davidson
‘Now You See It’ June 24, 2011 Cathy N. Davidson, author of the forthcoming book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking) could safely be deemed a Never-Better, with perhaps a dash of the Ever-Waser. The major technological changes of the past decade … Inside Higher Ed: 'Now You See It' Q&A with Cathy Davidson
Inside Higher Ed: 'Now You See It' Q&A with Cathy Davidson
Reblogged from Inside Higher Ed ‘Now You See It’ June 24, 2011 by Serena Golden Recent years have seen a flood of media attention devoted to the relationship between the digital age and the human brain (in these pages and elsewhere; The New York Times has a whole series on the topic). New Yorker writer … Inside Higher Ed: 'Now You See It' Q&A with Cathy Davidson
Fast Company Magazine: July/August 2011 Issue
Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach … to everything. BY: ANYA KAMENETZ Read the full article.
Duke's Cathy Davidson Has A Bold Plan for Change
Reblogged from FastCompany BY: ANYA KAMENETZ July 22, 2011 Davidson is a professor at Duke University, a dyslexic, and a geek: The combination has made her a savvy, realistic, and observant critic of today’s technoculture. | Photograph by Adam Golfer Cathy Davidson thinks the time has come to reassess our approach … to everything. SOMEONE HAS … Duke's Cathy Davidson Has A Bold Plan for Change
Siliconeer's June Cover Story
Social Media: Savior of Mankind or a Peril Parents don’t quite understand the impact of social media on their children. It is a subject of major debate. We should make the most of the new age of information says Prof. Vivek Wadhwa
AGENDA: A Collaborative Solution to Email Overload
There are so many things wrong with techno-determinist claims such as, “the Internet makes us dumber” and “texting makes us lonely” and “Facebook steals our souls” and “even multitaskers are bad at multitasking,” that I barely know where to begin. The neuroscience is bad, the psychology naive, and the perspective on the impact of culture … AGENDA: A Collaborative Solution to Email Overload
Durham's Herald Sun Announces Davidson's Nomination to the National Council on the Humanities
Reblogged from The Herald Sun – Week’s End Cathy Davidson, internet provocateur, co-founder of Duke University’s HASTAC (pronounced “haystack,” short for the “Humanities, Arts, Science Technology, Advanced Collaboratory” at Duke University) and sometime Herald-Sun guest columnist, has been nominated to the National Council on the Humanities. We are impressed, but not surprised. If the Obama administration … Durham's Herald Sun Announces Davidson's Nomination to the National Council on the Humanities
Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly ran a starred review of NOW YOU SEE IT in their magazine’s May 30th issue: ★Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn Cathy N. Davidson. Viking, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-02282-3 Davidson (The Future of Thinking) offers a stunning new vision for … Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
Now on MSNBC: Social Media and "Now You See It"
Vivek Wadhwa‘s BusinessWeek article now appears on MSNBC. Wadhwa discusses how the Internet will not rot your brain—or those of your children. Web communications will better connect us all with the world. He’s interviewed Cathy Davidson who dismisses the doomsday scenarios one hears on a daily basis. She says we don’t need new research to prove that the Internet has changed how we live.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43171528/ns/business-us_business/