A new class, tellingly called “Wasting Time on the Internet,” is expected to launch soon, and it requires its students to spend a minimum of three hours a day online, “only interacting through chat rooms, bots, social media and listservs.” They’ll then be asked to write a work of literature based on their experience.
“I’m very tired of reading articles in The New York Times every week that makes us feel bad about spending so much time on the Internet,” poet/professor Kenneth Goldsmith told VICE’s Motherboard. “There’s this new morality built around guilt and shame in the digital age.” (CBS News)
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