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June 10, 2010 Mind Over Mass Media By STEVEN PINKER Truro, Mass. NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
Critics of new media sometimes use science itself to press their case, citing research that shows how “experience can change the brain.” But cognitive neuroscientists roll their eyes at such talk.
NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse to bullet points.
Steven Pinker argues in his article "Mind over Mass Media" that contrary to popular arguments that electronic media and technology are harmful to intelligence, discoveries in fields like science continue to grow exponentially and other intellectual disciplines are thriving in the digital age.
What consequences can, over us and our children, mislead the media? The book answers questions like these, illustrating the many undesired effects media can have on people and their ideas, opinions, emotions and identities.
13 Νοε 2015 · Mind Over Mass Media 1 Steven Pinker Truro, Mass. NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse to bullet points.
Mind Over Mass Media - Praising Effects of Tech on Brain - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The effects that technology has on people. Is technology really that bad?
