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- Title
Make It Now: QuickMuse and the Arrival of Fast-Track Composition.
- Authors
Gunsberg, Ben
- Abstract
N. Katherine Hayles suggests that prolonged interaction with networked and programmable media may be tuning young people's nervous systems toward hyper attention, a cognitive mode that manifests in preferences for high levels of stimulation and multiple information streams. This essay responds to Hayles' call to examine interactions between hyper and deep attention, through an analysis of the poetry website QuickMuse.com. Focusing on relations between temporality and modes of attention, I argue that the site's configurations of time foreground the role hyper attention plays in creative written expression, while simultaneously diminishing the role of deep attention. In light of Hayles' pedagogical agenda, I conclude by proposing classroom-oriented "attention mapping" activities meant to encourage students to reflect on the styles of attention instantiated in and appropriate to different reading and composing practices.
- Subjects
HAYLES, N. Katherine; COGNITION; EDUCATORS; HYPERTEXT literature; HYPERTEXT fiction; WEBSITES
- Publication
Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2011, Vol 14, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1080-2711
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.3998/3336451.0014.210