Annotated Online Bibliography 

Currently practicing academics – 

Jeffery Arnett

Arnett, J. (2004). Emerging adulthood the winding road from the late teens through the twenties. New York: Oxford University Press.

Available online for purchase here.

Arnett’s website is linked here.

Wikipedia link for Arnett and Emerging Adulthood.

Arnett’s theory of Emerging Adulthood makes us consider how technology is changing the speed, space, and time it takes to become an adult in modernity.  A new class of individual, who is not quite fully adult, and not quite a adolescent has been formed by the increased need for technology in our daily lives.  Technology has made life easier in some ways, but our learning to coexist with it has made life more difficult in others, and an extended time developing is needed to learn to balance these issues.

Christina Hoff Summers

Wikipedia Page

Professional Page

In depth analysis of her entire Factual Feminist Video

Public Intellectual and academic Christina Hoff Summers become “internet famous” for her ethnographic study of Gamers which lead lead her to publish this video online researching Gamergate. Her video is an excellent example of an ethnographic study which is compassionate, humanistic and life serving.

Matthew Ratcliffe

Ratcliffe’s Paper on the Phenomenology and the Experience of Free Will

From Radcliffe’s paper –

“This chapter sketches a phenomenological account of impaired agency in depression. Depression, I suggest, can involve what we might call a diminished experience of free will. Although it is often assumed that we have such an experience, it is far from clear what it consists of. I argue that this lack of clarity is symptomatic of looking in the wrong place. Drawing on themes in Sartre‟s Being and Nothingness, I propose that the sense of freedom associated with action is not – first and foremost – an episodic „quale‟ or „feeling‟ that is experienced as internal to the agent. Rather, it is embedded in the experienced world; my freedom appears in the guise of my surroundings. This makes better sense of what people with depression consistently describe: a diminished ability to act that is inextricable from a transformation of the experienced world.”

Ratcliffe’s website is linked here.

Douglas Rushkoff

Rushkoff, D. (2013). Present shock: When everything happens now. New York, New York: Penguin Group.

Rushkoff tells us about Present Shock, a dynamic where our commitments to technology are pulling us more and more out of our own lived narratives and into commercialized, inhuman relationships with technology.  Technology continues to demand more and of of our lived energy and presence as it continues to evolve and grow.

Available online for purchase here.

Rushkoff’s website is linked here.

Wikipedia link for Rushkoff here.

Rushkoff disussed –

Alfred Korzybski, who was the founder of the Institute of General Semantics

Philosophers –

Husserl 

Edmund Husserl, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Beyer, Christian, “Edmund Husserl”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2013/entries/husserl/>.

Husserl Wikipedia page.

Merleau- Ponty

Maurice Merleau- Ponty , Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 

Flynn, Bernard, “Maurice Merleau-Ponty”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/merleau-ponty/>.

Merleau-Ponty Wikipedia page

Internet Personalities –

Will be added at the request  of the personality themselves.  Each one will be messaged or emailed if there is a practical way of doing so. The results of those messages and emails shall be posted here.