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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.
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. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse to bullet points.
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.
How does our mood change after reading a newspaper? What emotions arouse in us some TV programs and how, then, is our sleep? How influential are newsletters on our understanding of the world and our political views? What consequences can, over us and our children, mislead the media?
13 Νοε 2015 · 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.
21 Δεκ 2020 · Mass media affects its consumers primarily in their cognitive dimension, by changing the image of the world - in this sense that the media becomes a vector of social influence, by changing...