{"id":802,"date":"2007-03-03T21:22:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T02:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2007-05-02T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T02:21:21","slug":"shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pursuant to the previous post, I note with interest that a group has declared 24 March 2007 to be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutdownday.org\/\">Shutdown Day<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate! Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not a bad idea. It reminds me of the concept of a &#8220;media fast&#8221; advocated by Thomas Cooper, professor of media at Emerson College. Cooper described the purpose and results of a media fast in an article titled &#8220;You Are What You Watch,&#8221; available on the Emerson College Web site in a PDF file (the article appears on the second-to-last page): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emerson.edu\/news\/upload\/ia_expression_winter2006.pdf\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since March 24 is a Saturday, a day when I&#8217;m not in the office, I&#8217;ll be able to participate. No blog entry that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pursuant to the previous post, I note with interest that a group has declared 24 March 2007 to be &#8220;Shutdown Day&#8220;: Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-blogs","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}