Jared Goan
Dr. Mark Poindexter
BCA 210
8 October 2017
Adderal in Society In The Filter Bubble, Pariser discusses the impact of hyper-focused and self-centered information on society. More specifically, he talks about the ADD prescription drug Adderal and how it affects students, and compares it with how the filter bubble in society has the same sort of affect on the general population. Pariser begins by telling a story about a KGB officer named Yuri Nosenko who began spying for the CIA in exchange for some money that got stolen from him one night when he had been drinking. Nosenko later wanted to defect to the United States and share more information with the CIA. The CIA agreed to let him in, but they became suspicious of him when they …show more content…
The filter bubbles that the media creates causes people to only focus on the information that they want to focus on and block out any information that might go against their biases, similar to how Adderall makes people focus on a single piece of information while blocking out other information. I think Pariser is right about comparing Adderall and the media filter bubbles, and how they both subject people to focusing on only one piece of information and blocking out any other differing opinions or creative influences. Pariser supports his claims and assumptions with several quotes and article sources and includes a couple of stories about incidences where this type of self-centeredness and self-confirming bias is applied to real life situations. “The Adderall Me: My romance with ADHD meds” is an article by one of Parisers sources, Joshua Foer. In the article, Foer essentially agrees with Pariser in the sense that he also believes that Adderall is very useful for productivity for a short amount of time, but it ultimately is bad for you in the end due to its addictive and dependent nature, and its tendency to make people narrow minded and overly
Dr. Mark Poindexter
BCA 210
8 October 2017
Adderal in Society In The Filter Bubble, Pariser discusses the impact of hyper-focused and self-centered information on society. More specifically, he talks about the ADD prescription drug Adderal and how it affects students, and compares it with how the filter bubble in society has the same sort of affect on the general population. Pariser begins by telling a story about a KGB officer named Yuri Nosenko who began spying for the CIA in exchange for some money that got stolen from him one night when he had been drinking. Nosenko later wanted to defect to the United States and share more information with the CIA. The CIA agreed to let him in, but they became suspicious of him when they …show more content…
The filter bubbles that the media creates causes people to only focus on the information that they want to focus on and block out any information that might go against their biases, similar to how Adderall makes people focus on a single piece of information while blocking out other information. I think Pariser is right about comparing Adderall and the media filter bubbles, and how they both subject people to focusing on only one piece of information and blocking out any other differing opinions or creative influences. Pariser supports his claims and assumptions with several quotes and article sources and includes a couple of stories about incidences where this type of self-centeredness and self-confirming bias is applied to real life situations. “The Adderall Me: My romance with ADHD meds” is an article by one of Parisers sources, Joshua Foer. In the article, Foer essentially agrees with Pariser in the sense that he also believes that Adderall is very useful for productivity for a short amount of time, but it ultimately is bad for you in the end due to its addictive and dependent nature, and its tendency to make people narrow minded and overly