Chris
09-17-2013, 03:57 PM
I think Michael Gazzaniga (see ) would support the opening thesis below, we are rewiring our brains and that can affect evolutionary selection.
Some of the hate and rage expressed, and just as often falsely ascribed, even on this forum supports the second thesis.
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/16/the-internet-isnt-making-us-dumb-its-making-us-angry/?hpid=z13]The Internet isn’t making us dumb. It’s making us angry (]Brains Are Automatic, But People Are Free[/url)
There's a strain of thought that because of the way Internet culture has changed the way we work and play, we're now a different people, neurologically. We don't just behave differently because of the Internet; we think differently, too.
The scientific jury is still out on that count. But if the Internet does have a role to play in making us more anything, a handful of Chinese researchers have concluded that it's "more angry."
In a study of 70 million posts on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, Rui Fan and a team of others at Beihan University tracked the spread of joy, sadness, anger and disgust across the social network. According to the MIT Technology Review, they found that angry tweets were far more likely to be retweeted by others — or be the subject of angry responses — up to three degrees away from the original user.
Joy, disgust and sadness weren't nearly as influential over others, the researchers learned....
Some of the hate and rage expressed, and just as often falsely ascribed, even on this forum supports the second thesis.
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/16/the-internet-isnt-making-us-dumb-its-making-us-angry/?hpid=z13]The Internet isn’t making us dumb. It’s making us angry (]Brains Are Automatic, But People Are Free[/url)
There's a strain of thought that because of the way Internet culture has changed the way we work and play, we're now a different people, neurologically. We don't just behave differently because of the Internet; we think differently, too.
The scientific jury is still out on that count. But if the Internet does have a role to play in making us more anything, a handful of Chinese researchers have concluded that it's "more angry."
In a study of 70 million posts on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, Rui Fan and a team of others at Beihan University tracked the spread of joy, sadness, anger and disgust across the social network. According to the MIT Technology Review, they found that angry tweets were far more likely to be retweeted by others — or be the subject of angry responses — up to three degrees away from the original user.
Joy, disgust and sadness weren't nearly as influential over others, the researchers learned....