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14 October 2005

Online Compulsive Disorder

The Age:

Breakfast this morning with a manager who spent the time groaning about the way people in meetings now sit around sending text messages on their mobiles or checking and sending emails on their Blackberry. Does technology make our attention spans shorter? Doctors and sociologists now call it pseudo-attention disorder.

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Trevor Cook

  • Trevor is a doctoral student in politics at the University of Sydney. He also tutors in the area of Australian foreign and defence policy. He has been blogging since November 2003 and over the past decade he has written many articles on politics, public relations and social media for newspapers, magazines and websites (ABC Unleashed, Crikey, New Matilda and Online Opinion).

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