"It isn't easy to find an informed and critical look at the impact
of digital media practices on human lives and minds. Ivo Quartiroli
offers an informed critique based in both an understanding of
technology and of human consciousness." -Howard Rheingold, author
of The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs. "Aware of the profound and
rapid psychological and social metamorphosis we are going through
as we 'go digital' without paying attention, Ivo Quartiroli is
telling us very precisely what we are gaining and what we are
losing of the qualities and privileges that, glued as we are to one
screen or another, we take for granted in our emotional, cognitive
and spiritual life. This book is a wake-up call. Steve Jobs and
Bill Gates should read it." -Derrick de Kerckhove, Professor,
Facolta di sociologia, Universita Federico II, Naples, former
Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. "People
today, especially young people, live more on the Internet than in
the real world. This has subtle and not-so-subtle effects on their
thinking and personality. It is high time to review these effects,
to see whether they are a smooth highway to a bright interconnected
future, or possibly a deviation that could endanger health and
wellbeing for the individual as well as for society. Ivo Quartiroli
undertakes to produce this review and does so with deep
understanding and dedicated humanism. His book should be read by
everyone, whether he or she is addicted to the Internet or has
second thoughts about it." -Ervin Laszlo, President, the Club of
Budapest, and Chancellor, the Giordano Bruno Globalshift
University. "Ivo Quartiroli here addresses one of the most pressing
questions forced upon us by our latest technologies. In disturbing
the deepest relations between the user's faculties and the
surrounding world, our electric media, all of them without
exception, create profound disorientation and subsequent discord,
personal and cultural. Few subjects today demand greater scrutiny."
- Dr. Eric McLuhan, Author and Lecturer "Ivo Quartiroli is mining
the rich liminal territory between humans and their networks. With
the integrity of a scientist and the passion of artist, he forces
us to reconsider where we end and technology begins. Or when."
-Douglas Rushkoff, Media Theorist and author of Cyberia, Media
Virus, Life, Inc. and Program or Be Programmed. "You might find
what he writes to be challenging, irritating, even blasphemous and
sacrilegious. If so, he has proven his point. The Internet, Ivo
suggests, might just be the new opium of the masses. Agree with him
or not, no other book to date brings together the multitude of
issues related to how the seductions of technology impinge upon and
affect the development of the self and soul." -Michael Wesch,
Associate Professor of Digital Ethnography, Kansas State University
It is nearly half a century since Marshall McLuhan pointed out that
the medium is the message. In the interim, digital technologies
have found an irresistible hook on our minds. With the soul's quest
for the infinite usurped by the ego's desire for unlimited power,
the Internet and social media have stepped in to fill our deepest
needs for communication, knowledge and creativity - even intimacy
and sexuality. Without being grounded in those human qualities
which are established through experience and inner exploration, we
are vulnerable to being seduced into outsourcing our minds and our
fragile identities. Intersecting media studies, psychology and
spirituality, The Digitally Divided Self exposes the nature of the
malleable mind and explores the religious and philosophical
influences which leave it obsessed with the incessant flow of
information.
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