Tag Archives: fear

Fear the Culture of Fear (danah boyd SXSW 2012)

Posted on 21.03.2013 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]A écouter absolument, cette conférence donnée par danah boyd l’an dernier sur le lien entre la peur, l’économie de l’attention, les réseaux, la surcharge d’information, la transparence, et bien d’autre chose encore. Version écrite. [en]Danah‘s talk is titled The Power … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth | Tagged danah boyd, fear, information overload, network, sxsw | Leave a comment

Urges

Posted on 16.12.2012 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Un vieux texte ressorti des brouillons.[en]A draft dating back from March 2010. Probably inspired by a dream. Loud rhythmic music started drifting in the air, and the crowd on the festival river boats slowly went quiet. People stood up and … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative | Tagged dream, fear, Music, water, Writing | Leave a comment

My Journey Out of Procrastination: Perfectionism, Starting, and Stopping

Posted on 29.12.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Le perfectionnisme est un aspect bien connu mais souvent un peu méprisé de la procrastination. Y’a qu’à accepter qu’on n’est pas parfaits, que diable! Ce n’est pas aussi simple que ça, car en raisonnant ainsi, on ne tient pas compte … Continue reading →

Posted in Life Improvement, Personal, Psychology | Tagged 15 minutes, compulsive, declutter, emotions, fear, flylady, obessive, perfectionism, problem, procrastination, starting, stopping, timer | 9 Comments

Cessons de paranoïer au sujet de la grippe A (H1N1)

Posted on 20.08.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Our local newspaper has a full-page interview about the rampant panic around H1N1. To keep a sense of proportion, for 1500 deaths due to that particular flu, the common flu kills 250 to 500 thousand people each year. The doctor … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Media, My corner of the world, News and Politics | Tagged angoisse, article, autorités, fear, grippe a, grippe porcine, h1n1, interview, journal, lausanne cités, martin winkler, médias, paranoia, prevention, swine flu | 2 Comments

Reading the Ofcon Report on Social Networking: Stats, Stranger Danger, Perceived Risk

Posted on 05.04.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Le Daily Mail remet ça aujourd’hui, abasourdi de découvrir que les adolescents rencontrent “offline” des étrangers d’internet. Il va donc falloir que j’écrive le fameux billet auquel j’ai fait allusion dernièrement, mais avant cela, je suis en train de lire … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged bebo, children, Citations, criticism, Culture, daily mail, danger, digital youth, Digital Youth, facebook, fear, internet, Media, myspace, ofcon, offline, online, Online Culture, predators, Press, Psychology / Sociology, report, Research, risk, security, social networking, Social Software, stranger danger, Thinking | Leave a comment

Daily Mail Shocked by Teen Cleavage

Posted on 02.04.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Encore une panique au sujet des photos d’ados sur les réseaux sociaux. Gardez la tête froide. Vais bloguer si j’ai le temps ces prochains jours.[en]Kevin Marks tweets: Daily Mail is shocked, shocked to find teenage cleavage on Bebo; reprints it … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged bebo, Digital Youth, facebook, fear, Online Culture, predators, schools, sexuality, Social Software, teenagers, teens | Leave a comment

Reading The Black Swan

Posted on 15.10.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Notes de lecture de “The Black Swan”, sur l’impact des événements hautement improbables.[en]One of the things I did yesterday during my time offline was read a sizeable chunk of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged blackswan, book, Books, essay, fear, impact, improbable, life, notes, philosophy, probability, Psychology / Sociology, reading, society, statistics, taleb | 6 Comments

Alarmapathy

Posted on 09.09.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]A force d’avoir des avertissements pour tout et rien (surtout dans les pays Anglo-Saxons), on finit par les ignorer.[en]JP is so right! I have lost count of the number of times I’ve sat in a car whose dashboard is littered … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged alarms, Citations, fear, london, muni, Psychology / Sociology, safety, sanfrancisco, society, underground, warnings | Leave a comment

MySpace supprime les profils de 29’000 “délinquants sexuels”

Posted on 27.07.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Il y a quelques jours, on a attiré mon attention sur cet article de la BBC, qui rapporte que le site MySpace (une sorte de super-Skyblog d’origine américaine) a supprimé de son site les profils de 29’000 “délinquants sexuels” (“sex … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Media, My corner of the world | Tagged adolescents, Citations, Digital Youth, enfants, Essay-Like, fear, internet, Media, médias, myspace, Online Culture, paranoia, pédophiles, prédateurs, predators, prevention, réaction, risque, securité, security, suisse romande, Wanted | 4 Comments

Parents, Teenagers, Internet, Predators, Fear…

Posted on 25.07.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Conseils aux parents (après mon interview à la BBC ce soir au sujet des “sex offenders” bannis de MySpace): pas de panique, les prédateurs sexuels tels que nous les présentent les médias ne sont pas légion, votre enfant ne court … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Digital Youth, Social Media and the Web | Tagged advice, anastasiagoodstein, bbc, children, ciao.ch, Cyberspace, Digital Youth, Education, Essay-Like, fear, internet, Media, myspace, offline, online, Online Culture, panic, paranoia, parents, predators, Press, Psychology / Sociology, schools, security, Social Software, socialnetworks, talks, teenagers, teens | 14 Comments