Are You Paying Attention?

Danah Boyd, over at Apophenia, blogs about the increasing tendency of audiences at presentations to spend much of the time apparently engaged with their laptops instead of seeming to pay attention to the speaker. While there’s something in what she writes, I confess that when it has happened to me, I found it somewhat irritating, particularly if the people in question were reading their emails or playing a game.

 

Perhaps I’m just one of the old dinosaurs that Mary Hodder is waiting for to die off…