{"id":3761,"date":"2011-07-01T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T00:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2011-07-01T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T00:36:41","slug":"distractions-in-the-shallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3761","title":{"rendered":"Distractions in the Shallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve was slowly reading Nicholas Carr&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshallowsbook.com\/nicholascarr\/Nicholas_Carrs_The_Shallows.html\">The Shallows<\/a> when I came across this passage,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By combining many different kinds of information on a single screen, the multimedia Net further fragments content an disrupts our concentration. (p. 91)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As often happens when reading, questions disrupted my concentration. I couldn&#8217;t help thinking that Carr&#8217;s gaze was limited by the screen. How many distractions are there beyond the book and screen. I grabbed my iPhone and took a panoramic shot of the visual space from where I sat on the living room couch. Rooms are the problem &#8211; they are filled with multimedia and interactive distractions starting with the couch (which invites me to put down the book and snooze.) Here is my annotated &#8220;multimedia&#8221; space (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/homedistractions.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/homedistractions1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3763 aligncenter\" title=\"homedistractions\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/homedistractions1-1024x369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve was slowly reading Nicholas Carr&#8217;s The Shallows when I came across this passage, By combining many different kinds of information on a single screen, the multimedia Net further fragments content an disrupts our concentration. (p. 91) As often happens when reading, questions disrupted my concentration. I couldn&#8217;t help thinking that Carr&#8217;s gaze was limited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Distractions in the Shallows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-literature","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}