Are Twitter and Facebook Affecting How We Think?
Is constant use of electronic gadgets reshaping our
brains and making our thinking shallower?
By Neil Tweedie
How many times do you click on your email icon in
a day? Or look at Facebook, or Twitter? And how many
times when reading on the internet do you click on a link
navigating away from the text that was the original object
of your enquiry? The web, it seems, is like an electronic
sweet shop, forever tempting us in different directions. But
does this mental promiscuity, this tendency to flit around
online, make us, well, thicker?
Nicholas Carr, the American Science writer, has mined
this theme for his new book, “The Shallows”, in which he
argues that new media are not just changing our habits
but our brains. It turns out that the mature human brain
is not an immutable seat of personality and intellect but a
changeable thing, subject to “neuroplasticity”. When our
activities alter, so does the architecture of our brain. Tm
not thinking the way I used to think,” writes Carr. “I feel it
most stronglywhen l’m reading.”
Disponível em: www.telegraph.co.uk. Acesso em: 27 fev. 2012.
Neil Tweedie levanta vários questionamentos sobre a
utilização de diferentes recursos tecnológicos disponíveis
hoje em dia. A partir desses questionamentos e dos
argumentos do escritor norte-americano Nicholas Carr, o
texto sugere que
Are Twitter and Facebook Affecting How We Think?
Is constant use of electronic gadgets reshaping our
brains and making our thinking shallower?
By Neil Tweedie
How many times do you click on your email icon in a day? Or look at Facebook, or Twitter? And how many times when reading on the internet do you click on a link navigating away from the text that was the original object of your enquiry? The web, it seems, is like an electronic sweet shop, forever tempting us in different directions. But does this mental promiscuity, this tendency to flit around online, make us, well, thicker?
Nicholas Carr, the American Science writer, has mined this theme for his new book, “The Shallows”, in which he argues that new media are not just changing our habits but our brains. It turns out that the mature human brain is not an immutable seat of personality and intellect but a changeable thing, subject to “neuroplasticity”. When our activities alter, so does the architecture of our brain. Tm not thinking the way I used to think,” writes Carr. “I feel it most stronglywhen l’m reading.”
Disponível em: www.telegraph.co.uk. Acesso em: 27 fev. 2012.
Neil Tweedie levanta vários questionamentos sobre a utilização de diferentes recursos tecnológicos disponíveis hoje em dia. A partir desses questionamentos e dos argumentos do escritor norte-americano Nicholas Carr, o texto sugere que
Gabarito comentado
Tradução: ele argumenta que as novas mídias não estão apenas mudando nossos hábitos, mas nossos cérebros.
O trecho das linhas 5 e 6 traduzido nos mostra que o uso intenso de recursos tecnológicos pode afetar nosso cérebro.
Gabarito do Professor: D
