Psychology and digital culture
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The document discusses the impact of digital culture on attention spans and cognitive load, noting a decrease in attention from 12 seconds in 2000 to 5-7 seconds today. It highlights the effects of frequent interruptions on memory, concentration, and the ability to engage deeply with information, emphasizing that while multitasking may enhance nimbleness, it impairs creative thinking. Various experts are quoted to support the argument that modern information consumption patterns negatively affect our cognitive processes.
Psychology and digital culture
- 1. Psychology and Digital Culture Ana Brambilla April, 2019
- 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVV8pch1dM&t=282s
- 6. Our attention span decreased from 12 seconds in 2000 to 5-7 seconds nowadays. Microsoft, 2015
- 7. George Miller (1956) The magical number seven, plus or minus two 2 4 6 8 9 11 14 23 246 8911 1423 J F K O R D L A X JFK ORD LAX John Sweller doesn’t agree anymore...
- 8. Information FLOW Information SOURCES = Regulated or not? “The information flowing into our working memory at any given moment is called our ‘cognitive load’. When the load exceeds our mind’s ability to store and process the information, we are unable to retain the information or to draw connections with the information already stored in our long-term memory.” Superfluous problem-solving Divided attention
- 10. Hypertext: It will release the reader from the imposed logic from the author, stimulating the criticism and the learning process by association. (George Landow) “The medium used to present the words obscured the meaning of the words.” (Nicholas Carr)
- 11. “The Net is, by design, an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention.” “Frequent interruptions scatter our thoughts, weaken our memory, and make us tense and anxious. The more complex the train of thought we’re involved in, the greater the impairment the distractions cause.” The switching cost
- 12. “We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch, or even socially isolated.”
- 13. The F pattern and the scannable reader , by Jackob Nielsen
- 16. Eye-hand coordination improving More visual attention Pattern recognition
- 17. “(...) the constant shifting of our attention when we’re online may make our brains more nimble when it comes to multitasking, but improving our ability to multitask actually hampers our ability to think deeply and creatively.” Jordan Grafman (head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- 19. “(...) heavy multitaskers were much more easily distracted by ‘irrelevant environmental stimuli’, had significantly less control over the contents of their working memory, and were in general much less able to maintain their concentration on a particular task.” Clifford Nass, Stanford University, 2009
- 20. To argue To reflect To contemplate To locate To categorize To assess quickly many fragments of informations