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Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Do social networks make us culturally more stupid?

diciembre 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on Do social networks make us culturally more stupid?

Is Internet making us stupid? Are we prepared to move away from thinking? Are social networks, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, blogs… killing the pleasure of reading? Absorbing and disturbing. Everyone joke about how the internet is making us, and especially our children, accelerated knuckleheads incapable of deep meditation. It’s no joke, insists Carr, and I was convinced.  (John Horgan, ‘Wall Street Journal’) A crack in the literature goes, or at least references to the literature, a sign that the writing is not dead, and through social networks like Facebook is still alive. The exchange […]

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The truth is out there on the net

diciembre 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on The truth is out there on the net

Social networks are supposed to be the center of liars and impunity. After a research made by Jeffrey Hancock,and some analisis of Clive Thompson, it’s possible to say that the Internet has become more trustful and honest due to the fear to be exposure to be caught. The truth is out there on the net. […]

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Pascual Serrano: komunikabideek informatu?

diciembre 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on Pascual Serrano: komunikabideek informatu?

Pascual Serranok (politika internazional eta komunikabideetan espezializatua den kazetaria) azterketa sakon bat egin du komunikabideen inguruan 2009 urtean argitaratutako Desinformación liburuan. Komunikabideetako berriemaileek interesatzen zaizkien berriak zoilik argitaratzen dituztela, eta informatu beharrean, desinformatu egiten gaituztela azaltzen du. Azken hau forgatzeko aditu honek datu garrantzitsuenen aipamenak egiten ditu bere liburuan hainbat adibideren bitartez. Hala izanik, esaten du norbanakook inkontzienteki bereganatzen ditugula mass mediek zabaltzen […]

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