This is one of the questions this course should really be answering, and at the moment... we aren't doing it.
http://www.mindjack.com/rushkoff/coercion.html
A couple of quotations at the top of this page are good examples of what we should be looking at. Certainly, this is what I wish students would consider. This is perhaps better than writing movie reviews. I need to streamline this course. More content. Stricter deadlines.
The link above is actually CHAPTER 7 of Coercion. This is probably more valuable than reading the fucking introduction!
Coercion summaries:
http://www.courageunfettered.com/stuf/coercion/
"The larger question, of course, is whether persuasive technology is a good idea at all when talking about turning a machine as soulless as a computer into what is essentially a propaganda engine."
--Denise Caruso, The New York Times
"We sell audience, not content."
Jonathan Sacks, AOL
http://www.ibiblio.org/nmediac/winter2002/mind.html (from my IB1 Blog)
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