How to Get College Credit for Wasting Time on the Internet
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iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — Wasting time on the Internet is an American obsession. It also happens to be the name of a course at the University of Pittsburgh taught by professor Kenneth Goldsmith.
He says that the course is basically a rebuttal to the gloom- and doom-sayers who contend that all the time spent on the Internet doing basically nothing contributes to the dumbing-down of the nation.
Yet, Goldsmith says nothing could be further from the truth and to prove his point, students who take “Wasting Time on the Internet,” which is required of creative writing majors, will have to spend three hours per class interacting through chat rooms, social media and other platforms.
Their goal by the end of the session, according to the prof, is to find “substantial works of literature” online to show that it’s not such a waste of time after all.
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