how the web distorts reality
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How the Web distorts reality
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Freedom of speech, the ability to misrepresent oneself, and social trends have created a falsified environment online which often distorts reality.
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Public profiles and self presentation may not be entirely true reality.
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Individuals prioritise information that is congruent with their current values, simply ignoring any discrepant information.[2]
The Guardian How…
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results reveal During online searching results reveal a detailed but selective outdated profile for
an individual.
“Static, unrepresentative reminders of lives past, lacking the dynamic of reality”[6]
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Stat from: Yale Univeristy,
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Such that people are increasingly likely to overestimate their expertise.[8]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/01/how-the-internet-makes-you-think-youre-smarter-than-you-really-are/
The mere act of people using a search engine
makes people think they know
more about everything.
Your news feed is tailored to whom and what you routinely interact with[10]
With every
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Creating a misconception about the realm of information truly available to users
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Additionally,
online current news information is causing a misconception in the eyes of readers’ by just brushing the skin of bigger issues.
“More is less when digesting deeper news articles, sadly the more news factoids you digest, the less of a big picture you will understand.”-Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Quote: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, The Guardian 2015 Image: Nathan Andre
Not all viewpoints on a scientific topic share the same amount of scientific substance.
Most media coverage gives
equal time and weight to a
wide range of arguments
without regard to their
credibility creating a “false
balance” in the public
debate[7]
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Sat:
teens openly claim to be “seriously depressed or “painfully insecure” across social networking sites[4]
Teenage Health and Social Media
Source:
expectations and complex physiologic changes.
Such that,
Teenage years are some of the most difficult for families, friends and teenagers from often overwhelming
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These posts cast dark shadows
on teenagers pages
However...
the true affects of depression are rarely considered or even spoken of in person[4]
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of people have a major regret about something in their life; social regret looms the biggest[1]
Traditionally- stories, pictures, and memories are lost through time… however, the internet never truly seems to forget[11]
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90%
the Web, stores much of what ourselves, and others have to say in a permanent public digital file[11]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Preventing oneself the
ability to control his
or her own identity, and the option of starting anew[6]
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/the-right-be-forgotten-google-search
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Online Falsification
http://www.statisticbrain.com/resume-falsification-statistics/
“[The web]is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents”
As Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page described in their original Stanford research paper, the web is “a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents
As Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page described in their original Stanford research paper, the web is “a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/the-right-be-forgotten-google-search
The First Amendment of the United States constitution prohibits the filtering of objectionable content and communications online.
Without any “quality control” an individual is free to express undefined, unreliable, and unconfirmed information with no credibility.
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The average Facebook user
changes their profile picture 18 times a year.
The ability to hide oneself behind a screen
while sharing information with little or no expertise allows for easy deceit.
Did anyone verify it was actually them?
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Stat:” How Often Facebook Users Change Their Photo”, Nick O’neil 2011. http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/how-often-facebook-users-change-their-photo-infographic/348201
http://www.livescience.com/27239-online-comments-skew-science-perception.html
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Absence of Dislike
Buttons
Engineers of social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have completely eliminated the personal choice, such that the decision has already been formed to “like” or scroll aimlessly.[3]
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But, this is not equivalent to expressing discontent.
http://www.sarahbeaucheminwriter.com/2014/08/6-ways-virtual-distorted-reality/
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“There are now 12 billion devices connected to the internet- in a decade their will be 50 billion”- Dave Evans, Cisco Systems[2]
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The internet is here to stay. People must see past the Web’s often misleading conceptions on reality and
keep on pace with it’s transgression into defining the 21st century. Image: Nathan Andre
Sources • Works Cited • [1]90 Percent Of People Say They Have A Major Regret. Here's How To Move Past It. (2014, July 6). Retrieved June 5, 2015, from The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/26/regret-infographic_n_5529641.html • [2]Anderssen, E. (214, May 29). Digital overload: How we are seduced by distraction. Retrieved June 6, 2015, from The gloe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com.proxy.queensu.ca/life/relationships/digital-overload-how-we-are-seduced-by-distraction/article17725778/?page=all
• [3]Beauchemin, S. (2014, August 21). 6 ways the virtual has destroyed reality. Retrieved June 5, 2015, from Sarah Beauchemin: http://www.sarahbeaucheminwriter.com/2014/08/6-ways-virtual-distorted-reality/
• [4]Cameron, A. (2008, January 24). Ailsa Cameron: When teenagers lose touch with reality. Retrieved June 4, 2015, from The Independent UK: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/ailsa-cameron-when-teenagers-lose-touch-with-reality-773071.html
• [5]Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2014, May 13). How the web distorts reality and impairs our judgement skills. Retrieved June 6, 2015, from The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/may/13/internet-confirmation-bias
• [6]Chaparro, J. P. (2015). How google determined our right to be forgotten. Retrieved June 11, 2015, from The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/18/the-right-be-forgotten-google-search
• [7]heuvel, K. v. (2014, July 15). http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-the-distorting-reality-of-false-balance-in-the-media/2014/07/14/6def5706-0b81-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html. Retrieved June 1, 2015, from The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-the-distorting-reality-of-false-balance-in-the-media/2014/07/14/6def5706-0b81-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html
• [8]Kaplan, S. (2015, 4 01). How the internet makes you think you're smarter than you really are. Retrieved June 3, 2015, from The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/01/how-the-internet-makes-you-think-youre-smarter-than-you-really-are/
• [9]Lewis, T. (2013, February 19). Trolls' Online Comments Skew Perception of Science. Retrieved June 5, 2015, from Lifescience: http://www.livescience.com/27239-online-comments-skew-science-perception.html
• [10]Martin, A. (2015). The web's 'echo chamber' leaves us none the wiser. Retrieved June 2, 2015, from Wired: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/1/online-stubbornness
• [11]Rosen, J. (2010, July 16). The Web means the end of forgetting. Retrieved June 4, 2015, from New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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