In this week’s reading, Howard Gardner talks about how, people as consumers, as readers, as thinkers, as creators, how they’ll be able to adapt and survive the upcoming era’s – especially in the digital landscape, and what they must do for them to do so. As a trained psychologist, and with a background in cognitive science […]

We need to de-alienate time: reconnect clock time to its sources and recognise its created machine character. As such, concern with the multiple time dimensions of our lives is no more than theoretical, academic exercise; rather, it is a strategy for living. –Barbara Adam, Timewatch: The social analysis of time This week’s reading focuses on two […]

If somebody’s thinking, ‘How can I be really good?’, people are going to come to you. Cal Newport’s article focuses on the idea that being good at what you do, or what you’re passionate about, is not determined by your passion for it – instead it’s fuel by the obsession of always wanting to be better, […]

Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas’ reading for this week, The Informal Media Economy, talks about how there are a shortage of jobs in the media industry. “Labour is an increasingly prominent concern for media research.” According to Toby Miller, “there would be no culture, no media, without labour. Labour is central to humanity, but largely absent from […]