Rapid Eye Movement is a blog dedicated to monitoring the many ways that new technology mediates human cognition, emotion and meaning making with a particular eye on it's impact on youth. We at REM use a combination of empirical research, philosophy and art to bring to light the many changes in occurring in our daily lives. Changes in part brought upon by an ever strengthening reliance on social media, as well as changes in interpersonal relations, culture, religion, technology, law and economics, all interacting to produce new epistemologies and ways of living. We pay an especially close attention to the role youth play in altering the technological landscape through their adoption of new technology. Our approach is systemic , assuming that all of aspects of the human condition are interconnected and a change in one domain often has a profound, but unseen affect on all other domains of life. Such relationships must be kept in mind when developing programs to affect po...
Rabid Eye Movement
monitoring the mediation of the modern mind.