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...the legacy of the cold war fed an irrational response to crime, encouraged citizens to retreat from public life, & worked against the democratizing momentum of the rights revolution. Although the cold war wasn't the sole cause of the fear & anger at government, its ideological premises shaped the response to it. By the early 1960s, crime began to replace communism as a threat to indiv security.
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Carola Suarez-Orozco's prepared remarks to Congress on psychological effects of immigration policies.
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Suárez-Orozco, an applied psychology professor and co-director of Immigration Studies at New York University, cited her own study of 400 immigrant adolescents. She found more than 75 percent had been separated from one or both parents for a period from six months to 10 years, and the longer the parent-child separation, the greater the reported symptoms of anxiety and depression among the children.
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The Internet, Carr observes, is "best understood as the latest in a long series of tools that have helped mold the human mind." It's similar to other "intellectual technologies" that have reshaped our activities and culture.
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the new technologies, though derided by some of these skeptics for eroding the simple social bonds of yesteryear, are creating new social bonds. We’re not just being lured away from kin and next-door neighbors by machines; we’re being lured away by other people — people on Facebook, people in our inbox, people who write columns about giant superorganisms.
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Critics of new media sometimes use science itself to press their case, citing research that shows how “experience can change the brain.” But cognitive neuroscientists roll their eyes at such talk. Yes, every time we learn a fact or skill the wiring of the brain changes; it’s not as if the information is stored in the pancreas. But the existence of neural plasticity does not mean the brain is a blob of clay pounded into shape by experience.
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The average adolescent spends up to 7 hours a day on gadgets- text messaging, instant messaging, using social networking sites, and surfing the web. But all that comes to an abrupt halt for millions in coming weeks, when they head off to traditional, and unplugged summer camps. We talk to Ann Sheets of the American Camp Association about why some camps (~70%) are banning electronics.
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My concern is this – we’ve got great tools to help us find what we’re interested in online – search engines. We’re building strong tools to let us see what our friends and people who share our interests are interested in – Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Digg. Who’s building tools to help us encounter stories we didn’t know we were interested in, and which our friends haven’t already found?
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[Sunstein argues that print newspapers are] designed to draw the [eye] to a headline or story that you might not otherwise encounter, hoping to capture your focus and draw you into a story you didn’t know you were interested in, but which gives you information that changes your worldview...the move into digital media may put the responsibility for finding serendipity from editors to readers.
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As incoming freshmen fill out forms to select roommates and courses, some colleges — Duke and Bowdoin among them — are also requiring them to complete online tutorials about plagiarism before they can enroll...In surveys of 14,000 undergraduates over the last four years, an average of 61 % admitted to cheating on assignments & exams.
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...the legacy of the cold war fed an irrational response to crime, encouraged citizens to retreat from public life, & worked against the democratizing momentum of the rights revolution. Although the cold war wasn't the sole cause of the fear & anger at government, its ideological premises shaped the response to it. By the early 1960s, crime began to replace communism as a threat to indiv security.
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