2011

Rose Power

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Afterthought: A distraction FROM distractions?

Obviously posting Pop Up images on an existing study site would find an audience of people already in the mindset of being willing to learn. 
But what about those people who go through life ignoring art and literature in favour of mind-numbing 'x-factor culture'? Could I ever get them to care about books like The Odyssey?
I know a lot of people who'd rather read Heat magazine....Image and video hosting by TinyPic

What about people who are students and do need to read, but spend their lives procrastinating on Facebook, and Tumblr (see the girls in the post below) instead?
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Bombarding these kind of sites with my guerilla-style educating techniques might have a surprising outcome in sparking people's interest. Or they'll ignore it as they would any Pop Up, despite my efforts to make facts visually interesting and accessible. This is something to explore in the future, obviously the chapter guides I have made would be lost on people not seeking knowledge of them, but dropping minor facts into people's day would be great, they might be able to drop them into a conversation to sound clever or use them in a quiz!

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