{"id":8025,"date":"2011-11-25T07:05:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:19:12","slug":"what-is-the-internet-doing-to-our-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8025","title":{"rendered":"What is the Internet doing to our brains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/brain.jpg\" alt=\"clip art of brain\" class=\"alignright\" \/>I just read a news item about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicholas_G._Carr\" title=\"Nicholas Carr entry in Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Carr<\/a> shutting off his Facebook and Twitter accounts and not carrying a smartphone because of how they affect our minds. He believes that our &#8220;intellectual technologies&#8221; encourage some ways of thinking while discouraging others. The computer, he says, &#8220;encourages the division of attention, distraction, and multitasking.&#8221; This leads to less deep reading and contemplation.<\/p>\n<p>Carr is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=9-8jnjgYrgYC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\" title=\"The Shallows summary at Google Books\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor Browsing Books Collection, QP360 .C3667 2010) as well as an article <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=aph&amp;AN=32562106&amp;site=ehost-live\" title=\"article Is Google Making Us Stupid\" target=\"_blank\">Is Google Making Us Stupid?<\/a> that appeared in <em>Atlantic<\/em> magazine. The article was the subject of a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/288\" title=\"Has Your Brain Been Googled? blog entry\" target=\"_blank\">Library blog entry<\/a> in 2008!<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\" title=\"Ask a Librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> if you are interested in finding additional material on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a news item about Nicholas Carr shutting off his Facebook and Twitter accounts and not carrying a smartphone because of how they affect our minds. He believes that our &#8220;intellectual technologies&#8221; encourage some ways of thinking while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8025\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}