Sunday, November 17, 2013

Shirky’s “Gin, Television, and the Cognitive Surplus”

1)The article is about cognitive surplus. We have so much free time that we don't even know what to do with it. His argument is that we spend to much time watching tv and not enough time making good use of the free time.
2)This article defines literacy as people who can look on the web and see the answer instead of digging deeper. The difference is that the other two articles say that literacy is digging deeper to understand the real meaning, but here however it is just knowing the information at hand.
3)Free time that people have and are doing something even if it is just thinking.
4)This article matters because it shows that we are devolving and not using our brain as much as we should.
5)"looking for the mouse", "cognitive surplus".
6)"We are looking for the mouse" is repeated time after time. It shows that even in the slightest way we make use of free time, the cognitive surplus, and it can be good because people can brainstorm and come up with the next new big idea.

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