INTRODUCTION
The article “Mass Over Mass Media” is written by Steven Pinker. Pinker is a professor in Psychology at Harvard University who focusses on visual cognation and psychology in language. He is well known for The Language Instinct & How the Mind Works. He was also listed as one of the most influential people out of 100 in the world. Also, he is known for his ongoing debate over how the internet has affected our world. Furthermore, author Steven Pinker, states his thesis in a peculiar way by stating that “panics often fail basic reality checks,” when it comes to inventions and their impacts. All forms of media have the power to draw a person in but that person must control themselves by using the information without abusing it. Personally, social media and the internet have had a major impact on our daily lives from the way we work to the way we learn and socialize.
SUMMARY
In Steven Pinker’s article, he discusses the debates which have risen about all the different types of media and how they affect our brains. He makes a point about how …show more content…
Throughout history and evolution of mankind, there have been many discoveries and they have advanced our lives in a way we could never have phantom. Pinker backs up his thesis by providing logical evidence from a variety of sources. He points out that crime rates dropped when people thought comic books would cause the opposite; IQ’s went up when television, transistor radios and rock videos were supposed to cause the opposite; electronic media was supposed to be “hazardous to intelligence, yet discoveries are multiplying like fruit flies.” Social media is a power horse that causes people to be drawn in whether they want to or not, however one must have the power to limit themselves to the quality not the
The article “Mass Over Mass Media” is written by Steven Pinker. Pinker is a professor in Psychology at Harvard University who focusses on visual cognation and psychology in language. He is well known for The Language Instinct & How the Mind Works. He was also listed as one of the most influential people out of 100 in the world. Also, he is known for his ongoing debate over how the internet has affected our world. Furthermore, author Steven Pinker, states his thesis in a peculiar way by stating that “panics often fail basic reality checks,” when it comes to inventions and their impacts. All forms of media have the power to draw a person in but that person must control themselves by using the information without abusing it. Personally, social media and the internet have had a major impact on our daily lives from the way we work to the way we learn and socialize.
SUMMARY
In Steven Pinker’s article, he discusses the debates which have risen about all the different types of media and how they affect our brains. He makes a point about how …show more content…
Throughout history and evolution of mankind, there have been many discoveries and they have advanced our lives in a way we could never have phantom. Pinker backs up his thesis by providing logical evidence from a variety of sources. He points out that crime rates dropped when people thought comic books would cause the opposite; IQ’s went up when television, transistor radios and rock videos were supposed to cause the opposite; electronic media was supposed to be “hazardous to intelligence, yet discoveries are multiplying like fruit flies.” Social media is a power horse that causes people to be drawn in whether they want to or not, however one must have the power to limit themselves to the quality not the