Is the cinematograph making us stupid? - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Aug 08
  

  Ruth C

  science technology psychology neurology media history culture education

• 01 Aug 08
  

  "Since the dawn of popular medicine, our cultural concerns about changes in society are likely to be expressed in the language of illness and disease."

  neurasthenia disease_ delicious_import

• 30 Jul 08
  

  Christy Tucker

  19th century neurologists George Beard and Silas Weir Mitchell "thought the pace of life and the effect of new technology was harming the mind and brain of citizens in 1800s America." Their concerns sound very much like the concerns shared today by people worried about the effects of computers and other technology.

  change technology

  • As we've noted several times, leading scientists or commentators can make international headlines by simply suggesting that new technology is harming the mind, brain and relationships of the modern citizen, despite a general lack of evidence or flat out evidence to the contrary.
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  Karen Loasby

  moral_panic

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  hmprescott

  newmedia psychology cinema

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  no trees

  new tech scaremongering then as now

  media

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