Weight: 366 grams Dimensions: 210 x 155 mm x 20 mm you always have to take a call, just because your phone or Cell phone rings? If you are someone who constantly nachschaut whether he has received a new message or someone who responds to a compulsive SMS. To find out what they have to do home-grown organic vegetables, the off switch on your TV and the lack of e-mails to each other, then read on ...
Although it seems as if we are all victims of the general acceleration of the "information bomb" ( Paul Virilio ) and numerous communications sites, they are still there, the very simple EXIT opportunities. Some call it simply slowing down, as the representatives of the so-called Slow Food movement , which it is important "to know what you eat". There are even slow cities that have similar objectives to Citta Slow-motion together and where it comes back to life in cities more livable (Furtwangen heard - yet - do so). followed
similar objectives Miriam Meckel, the author of the book "The Luck of the unreachable." The professor of 'Corporate Communication' (University of St. Gallen) aims to show how life can be worth living if you know how to (correctly) communicates. To say it first: Most of the book is for media-savvy people rather boring - the target audience is probably people who find it exciting when they install a software for the first time and even then it all works. The author is not exactly modest, not appeal to: a bitch. They always mentioned how important it is for yourself who all want something from her and how many times a month jetting to New York. The idea for the book had it because it simply has to communicate so much, ah! The whole book seems as if the publisher would have said: "Ok, communication inaccessibility, this is a good idea Unfortunately still missing 180 pages, so it is a book write a little about this online stuff, you know... already. "
And then she has done well. Let us just what Miriam Meckel would tell us about "love communication in the network world" (we've already tried it before, but really!). Let us not be intimidated by chapter titles like "The vibrating Me: Naked in the network without the limits of privacy" (we know what we do!). About Let gallantly to the chapter "Digital time thieves and squatters. How technology affects our lives (the title comes across as a pharmacy magazine) Recommended yet the introduction" We Simultanten: Always available, standby, and the first chapter "In communication case: data flow and ebb of thinking "
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Meckel works out in these two central chapters, which could also be called from a sociological perspective, the ambivalence of modern existence. We want to belong, to be networked, to be respected, etc. But more and more people do not want to redeem the related "duty to communicate." We are simultaneously normative and communicative fish quitters.
what is now the case of communication? The first (rather sociological) problem is that technology does not involve any social networking for a long time connection to themselves. It is so different than it once Howard Rheingold in his classic " Virtual Community . "He thought it was described this way: It works in a networked, but knows and helps in the RL, where should it be necessary today, it's like this. It has" followers "and" contacts ", but still long . no friends is
The second problem more psychological or spiritual nature: who communicates constantly, preferably all at the same time, anyone who listens to more correctly What most forget. It is the converse of the statement: no one listens us more (correct) to. I have long observed that very few people are still in a position to focus more than three sentences and to listen attentively. From the rudeness, the same a telephone call to a landline and a lead on the phone, not to mention ...
Meckel wants the digital communication media, but why not abolish the same. deal, but she is looking for tips in a "real" and "socially acceptable" way with them. In the professional world is called the communication ecology . These include conscious communication breaks, the autonomous structure their lives and give us time to be important: "We need to turn technology to be able to switch off mentally." Get away from stress, from the Rat-Race, the intrigues of everyday life. Disconnection of the many to-do's, check lists and mind maps to our Brain torture.
I want to anticipate the many tips not the Meckel developed in their book, but refer to their philosophy. "Everyone today needs from time to time be individual existential Funkloch This not only for increasing the quality of life, it is vitally important. "
The "homo ConnectUs" is not lost. He can escape from the trap data. But some are Meckel (expectable) advice and practical tips. What is missing this book is an explanation of how to develop these new habits (the communicative unavailability) for itself (for man is a creature of habit - Establish new routines is hell) and how to get as a society to new communication requirements and expectations. For it is of little use if one takes as an individual and the communication plug for it - is punished by others because you are not the prevailing norm - sooner or later. The new habit would have to be unreachable, a new right to inaccessibility face. About how this law can be produced, the author says, unfortunately, nothing.
The book is ultimately less a communication sociological study, but one of the most common life guide books that I personally "love" so much. Not because I needed or because I find the contents well. But simply because they "do XYZ, and you will be sooo happy books" a wonderful expression of our cultural helplessness are. More and more people are seeking answers to questions that could previously be answered for himself. Example: A few days ago I saw a recipe book for baby food. Baby food with all kinds of flavors. I called my mother and asked if it at the time when I was a baby, cook books were for baby food. Of course there was none. My mother just knew how to cook baby food. Or they lived in a communicative environment that had that information and transfer (probably were my grandmothers this communicative environment).
past you knew that you need now and in peace. And they knew to how it hires, to be left alone. Today it is possible to write about the same topics are a bestseller.
contribution to the future of humanity: The book increases the chances of us not all go crazy and waste in the information sink.
Miriam Meckel: The Luck of the inaccessibility. Ways out of the communication event. 2007 (3rd edition). Murmann Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86774-002-9
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