[Air-l] Web and thought

[Irene Berkowitz]

You might try in the cogitive psychology area or in the range
of media ecology studies.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 19:29:03 -0600
>From: Nancy Baym <nbaym at ku.edu>  
>Subject: [Air-l] Web and thought  
>To: air-l at aoir.org
>
>A colleague of mine sends the following query. If anyone has
good 
>tips please pass them on to him, Thank you. Nancy
>
>
>>From: "Allan Hanson" <hanson at ku.edu>
>>To: "Nancy Baym" <nbaym at ku.edu>
>>Subject: Bibliographic request
>
>...
>
>>   One of my arguments is that keyword searching tends to
give a 
>>number of results that are fairly high in information (in the 
>>technical sense of information theory...unpredictability),
and that 
>>can be conducive to new insights and creative thinking as
the user 
>>tries to figure out why certain results were returned.  It
seems to 
>>me that this is somewhat similar to surfing the web, where
people 
>>may be stimulated to think about things in new ways as they
go from 
>>site to site and, in the process, encounter ways of approaching 
>>things that had not occurred to them before.  I haven't been
able to 
>>find anything about how web surfing affects the way people
think 
>>about things.  Do you know of anything that has been done along 
>>those lines?
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>
>>Allan
>>
>>Allan Hanson
>>Professor of Anthropology
>
>
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>Nancy Baym	http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym
>Communication Studies, University of Kansas
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