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Does Social Media Make You Dumb?
- karzeem 19y agoNo more than the web can make you dumb. The study was about what social news users choose to focus on. That's a choice that all web users make, and on balance, most are probably better informed as a result. It's also quite possible that social news users get a lot of mainstream news, but just not at reddit or digg.
- bootload 19y ago"... Does Social Media Make You Dumb? ..." It might better inform you especially if the mainstream media ignores issues. But far too often the articles posted are from mainstream media anyway. Independent news sources are far and few between so there is a reliance on trusted writers or chance. So in some way you could argue it doesn't really inform you any more than traditional media. Aggregation of good stories, writers may change this. What is driving this social media? In a word, technology. Traditional Journalism is in the process of either dying off, morphing & changing into another type of job. A lot of it to do with the lack of dollars coming from advertising revenue. As Journalists, bloggers and news sources learn to harness this new technology a new "status quo" will emerge. The question is will there be any money left for the traditional Journalist, news gatherer and filterer of news?