How The News Makes Us Dumb
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Author |
: C. John Sommerville |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2009-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830875597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 083087559X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis How the News Makes Us Dumb by : C. John Sommerville
We who live at the end of the twentieth century are better informed--and more quickly informed--than any people in history. So why do we also seem more confused, divided and foolish than ever before? Some pundits criticize the news media for political bias. Other analysts worry that up-to-the-minute news reports on radio and television oversimplify complex realities. Still more critics point out that today's reporters can't possibly be experts on the wide variety of subjects they cover. Historian C. John Sommerville thinks the problem with news is more basic. Focusing his critique on the news at its best, he concludes that even at its best it is beyond repair. Sommerville argues that news began to make us dumber when we insisted on having it daily. Now millions of column inches and airtime hours must be filled with information--every day, every hour, every minute. The news, Sommerville says, becomes the driving force for much of our public culture. News schedules turn politics into a perpetual campaign. News packaging influences the timing, content and perception of government initiatives. News frenzies make a superstition out of scientific and medical research. News polls and statistics create opinion as much as they gauge it. Lost in the tidal wave of information is our ability to discern truly significant news--and our ability to recognize and participate in true community. This eye-opening book is for everyone dissatisfied with the state of the news media, but especially for those who think the news really informs them about and connects them with the real world. Read it and you may never again know the tyranny of the daily newspaper or the nightly news broadcast.
Author |
: Scott Dikkers |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780609804612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0609804618 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Dumb Century by : Scott Dikkers
The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin. Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before.
Author |
: Mike Walker |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1595550186 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781595550187 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rather Dumb by : Mike Walker
This scathing send-up to the mainstream media elite's most pompous and dusty member, Dan Rather, is penned by the gossip editor of the "National Enquirer." 176 pp
Author |
: ROLF. DOBELLI |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1529342716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781529342710 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis STOP READING THE NEWS by : ROLF. DOBELLI
Author |
: Mark Bauerlein |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2008-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781440636899 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1440636893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dumbest Generation by : Mark Bauerlein
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings. The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture. For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. But at the dawn of the digital age, many thought they saw an answer: the internet, email, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” entered the lexicon, and we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era. That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more aware, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports from the National Endowment for the Arts, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American culture and democracy. Over the last few decades, how we view adolescence itself has changed, growing from a pitstop on the road to adulthood to its own space in society, wholly separate from adult life. This change in adolescent culture has gone hand in hand with an insidious infantilization of our culture at large; as adolescents continue to disengage from the adult world, they have built their own, acquiring more spending money, steering classrooms and culture towards their own needs and interests, and now using the technology once promoted as the greatest hope for their futures to indulge in diversions, from MySpace to multiplayer video games, 24/7. Can a nation continue to enjoy political and economic predominance if its citizens refuse to grow up? Drawing upon exhaustive research, personal anecdotes, and historical and social analysis, The Dumbest Generation presents a portrait of the young American mind at this critical juncture, and lays out a compelling vision of how we might address its deficiencies. The Dumbest Generation pulls no punches as it reveals the true cost of the digital age—and our last chance to fix it.
Author |
: Nicholas Carr |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393079364 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393079368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by : Nicholas Carr
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”—from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer—Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways. Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic—a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption—and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection. Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes—Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive—even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
Author |
: Janna Quitney Anderson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2005-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780742568662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0742568660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagining the Internet by : Janna Quitney Anderson
In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of 'property,' a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions—and how they turned out. It gives the history of communications in a nutshell, illustrating the serious impact of pervasive networks and how they will change our lives over the next century.
Author |
: David Moscrop |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1773100416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781773100418 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Too Dumb for Democracy? by : David Moscrop
Bad decisions down to a science. D'oh-mocracy at its finest. Brexit. Trump. Ford Nation. In this timely book, David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our stone-age brains can process democracy in the information age. In an era overshadowed by income inequality, environmental catastrophes, terrorism at home and abroad, and the decline of democracy, Moscrop argues that the political decision-making process has never been more important. In fact, our survival may depend on it. Drawing on both political science and psychology, Moscrop examines how our brains, our environment, the media, and institutions influence decision-making. Making good decisions is not impossible, Moscrop argues, but the psychological and political odds are sometimes stacked against us. In this readable and provocative investigation of our often-flawed decisions, Moscrop explains what's going wrong in today's political landscape and how individuals, societies, and institutions can work together to set things right.
Author |
: David McRaney |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2013-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101621783 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101621788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis You Are Now Less Dumb by : David McRaney
The author of the bestselling You Are Not So Smart shares more discoveries about self-delusion and irrational thinking, and gives readers a fighting chance at outsmarting their not-so-smart brains David McRaney’s first book, You Are Not So Smart, evolved from his wildly popular blog of the same name. A mix of popular psychology and trivia, McRaney’s insights have struck a chord with thousands, and his blog--and now podcasts and videos--have become an Internet phenomenon. Like You Are Not So Smart, You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality--except we’re not. But that’s okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of fifteen more ways we fool ourselves every day, including: The Misattribution of Arousal (Environmental factors have a greater affect on our emotional arousal than the person right in front of us) Sunk Cost Fallacy (We will engage in something we don’t enjoy just to make the time or money already invested “worth it”) Deindividuation (Despite our best intentions, we practically disappear when subsumed by a mob mentality) McRaney also reveals the true price of happiness, why Benjamin Franklin was such a badass, and how to avoid falling for our own lies. This smart and highly entertaining book will be wowing readers for years to come.
Author |
: Albert Jay Nock |
Publisher |
: Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610163248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610163249 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theory of Education in the United States by : Albert Jay Nock