On Sunday, as I was gathering my information by thumbing through the Democrat & Chronicle (how archaic), I noticed an editorial by Suzanne Fields about "alarming observations from scientific laboratories" that our minds are being permanently altered by new media. She refers to a science-tech writer who claims that "the Internet is the most mind-altering conceptualizer for learning since the invention of the alphabet and numbers."
She goes on to state that "A study of 3,500 voters between ages 18 and 24 found that 2008 voters typically looked for sites they expected to agree with, to reinforce opinions. No one was much interested in getting new and contrary information." How is this so different from a person choosing which articles to read in the newspaper?
I then found a longer version of this article (online) in which she comments on another author who stated "The telephone had sex with the computer and spawned the Internet." WHAT? This is too contrary...not reading any more.
Amy Lancaster
MSMK 1
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