{"id":11933,"date":"2025-10-12T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:27:23","slug":"oxfords-2024-word-of-the-year-brain-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2025\/10\/12\/oxfords-2024-word-of-the-year-brain-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfords 2024 Word of the Year: Brain Rot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this short thesis I attempt to develop a neurological framework for the phenomena known as &#8216;Brain Rot&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit the PressBook here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/mobileattention\/chapter\/chapter-1\/\">https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/mobileattention\/chapter\/chapter-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mobile-mediated-attention-capture wp-block-embed-mobile-mediated-attention-capture\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"C0HMxoUUKc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/mobileattention\/chapter\/chapter-1\/\">Brain Rot<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Brain Rot&#8221; &#8212; Mobile-Mediated Attention Capture \" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/mobileattention\/chapter\/chapter-1\/embed\/#?secret=ROHPfhrnLa#?secret=C0HMxoUUKc\" data-secret=\"C0HMxoUUKc\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this short thesis I attempt to develop a neurological framework for the phenomena known as &#8216;Brain Rot&#8217;. Visit the PressBook here: https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/mobileattention\/chapter\/chapter-1\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a1-analyses","category-knowledgemill","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11935,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions\/11935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}