Social Mindfulness is a buddhist idea that involves the extension of the individual practice of mindfulness meditation into society through the use of dialogue with others as a tool to increase awareness. This is a powerful idea that I believe could use some study and redefinition in the age of social media which presents so much opportunity for increasing mindfulness, but often seems to encourage its’ antithesis in practice: ‘Continuous Partial Attention’ and ‘Narrowcasting’
