David Gauntlett – Making is Connecting
Tim Kastelle, Innovation Leadership Network, July 27, 2010.


Very nice talk from David Gauntlett titled "Making is Connecting." The thrust of this 9 minute video is that new media supports creativity, and this creativity creates happiness through meaningful work and ties with community. Tim Kastelle relates this to his own work (and unknowingly, to mine): "we connect ideas to people. This is the outbound side of Connection. I write about the idea connections that I make in my blog – as people read it, they start connecting with the ideas. I give as many public talks as I can..."

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Re: David Gauntlett – Making is Connecting

Regenesis, July 29, 2010

We're saying, "if you want volunteer hour credits for working with kids, leave your electronics at home". Working with kids requires focus and presence. The younger the child the bigger the problem. It is particularly troubling when new moms are texting while feeding their newborns rather than forming a reciprocal mother/child connection.

There are certain key interpersonal connections that are extremely vital to society. We are developing amazing abilities to communicate across continents but there's a lot less communicating with one's partner across the breakfast table. Having hundreds of facebook friends isn't the same as having one friend waiting for you when you come out of surgery.

Creativity isn't creating a video - it's creating a life. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: David Gauntlett �" Making is Connecting

TMClancy, August 1, 2010

Regenesis (making again? making anew?):

Thanks for your image at the end of your post. It is a powerful reminder of the limits of the digital in our, finally, essential human lives and moments.

Doesn't the digital, though, act as a precursor to the personal? Or, in the case of Facebook, as an extender of the personal? I think that's what Gauntlett's video promises: mimicking personal contacts that we can't have, suggesting personal contacts that we'd like to have.

People who prefer digital interaction to real-life priorities (reading one's texts while driving, or while in a meeting or lecture, or at a dinner table, etc.) are quickly becoming identified as abusers of the technology, although I don't know who could reach your texting new mother. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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