Hyundai commercial

I’ve seen this Hyundai commercial before, but this was the first time I thought consciously about why I have such mixed emotions/reactions to it.
The narrator says, “Instant gratification has us in a stranglehold, so much so that we don’t want to fix things anymore — just replace them. Don’t like your nose, get a new [...]

“It was like talking to someone who wasn’t listening” (importance of audience)

Konrad Glogowski (The Blog of Proximal Development), who’s writing a dissertation on blogging communities in education at the University of Toronto, describes what happened when the blogs in his classroom went down and were down for two weeks. The students were very entwined with their blogs, to the point of feeling as if learning couldn’t [...]