Social Media and Your Brain (eBook, ePUB)

Web-Based Communication Is Changing How We Think and Express Ourselves
Redaktion: Prado, C. G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While society has widely condemned the effects on preteens and teens' natural social maturation of digitally enabled communication, such as texting and messaging, and of social media apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, these forms of communication are adversely affecting everyone, including adults. This book examines how social media and modern communication methods are isolating users socially, jeopardizing their intellectual habits, and, as a result, decreasing their chances of achieving social and professional success. The ubiquitous use of the Internet and social media is changing our society-in some ways, for the worse. Use of social media, the Internet, and other purely digital and less-personal communication methods are distorting the intellectual and social maturation of teens and preteens in particular-those among us who were born into and raised with Internet technology. People's ability to read facial expressions, interpret subtle differences in spoken intonation, and perceive body language is in significant decline due to the use of social media and the Internet largely replacing direct, face-to-face contact with other human beings. This book documents how changes in our daily behavior caused by the proliferation of social media are reshaping individuals' personalities and causing an evolution of the character of our society as a whole. Readers will understand how these important changes came about and how more connectivity all too often leads to more ignorance and less comprehension, and will consider solutions that could counter the negative effects of being "too connected, too often."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216146254
• Artikelnr.: 68347127

Autorenporträt

C.G. Prado, PhD, FRSC, is emeritus professor of philosophy at Queen's University, a two-time elected Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter Synopses Introduction C. G. Prado Chapter 1 The Role of Habit C. G.
Prado Chapter 2 Bored, Addicted, or Both: How We Use Social Media Now Mark
Kingwell Chapter 3 Attention, Emotion, and Desire in the Age of Social
Media Khadija Coxon Chapter 4 Social Media and Self-Control: The Vices and
Virtues of Attention Juan Pablo Bermúdez Chapter 5 Does Social Media
Interfere with the Capacity to Make Reasoned Arguments? Chris Beeman
Chapter 6 Exclusive Spaces Alex Leitch Chapter 7 Social Media and
Communicative Unlearning: Learning to Forget in Communicating Paul
Fairfield Chapter 8 Prices Paid for Social Media Use Lawrie McFarlane
Afterword: Realizing the Consequences of Internet and Social Media Usage
Bruce MacNaughton Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index