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My dissertation probably

summarizes in

about 3 Tweets

[britney] “I think Rabbi Pearlstein is really pissed at me. Today in Jewish class he was going through the Halakha, which I thought was the Jewish word for Hannah Montana but turns out to be like a whole bunch of boring laws about days of the week and pork and shit, and I was like, “Rabbi P., is there any way you could break this down into a bunch of tweets? I’ll read it on my phone on the way to rehearsal.” [/britney]

The excerpt is from a satiric New Yorker item containing entries from Britney Spears’ conversion diary, in response to the story reported in The Sun about Spears converting to Judaism.  I presume Spears here is portrayed as a symbol of the dumbing twitter generation in America, but I feel there’s some truth in her dialogue.  I have repeatedly found myself attending conferences or reading lengthy books and thinking – “Can’t this stuff just be summarized in about 3 Tweets?”

[hiromitweet]

5putniko I’m from the Skimming Generation.  Reading journals I just cant stop thinking  “This stuff probably summarizes in about 3 tweets.” スキミング世代なのだ。ジャーナルとか読むと「この内容、３ツイートで網羅できるだろ」とか思ってしまうわけだ。

from 5putniko‘s Twitter feed, 13 September 2009

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Yes, I have become extremely attention deficit.  I have difficulties staying on one web page to read texts longer than 1000 words (and I’m sure my Twitter use is decreasing that number) My mind can’t stop hopping from one hyperlink to another, my knowledge seems to be primarily constructed through skimming through tags, blog posts, streamed videos and twitter feeds, as much as, or probably more than, studying grand authors like Derrida, Foucalt or Latour.

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#britney [creator:"Andy Borowitz", title:"Shouts & Murmurs: Britney's Conversion Diary (New Yorker)", tag:"Britney Spears, Jedaism", time:"2009-07-27T00.00.00.0z", url:"http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/07/27/090727sh_shouts_borowitz"]
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