Social Media, Cognitive Dysfunction, and Social Disruption Flashcards
In what 3 ways does the social media communication model move beyond earlier rectified
asymmetrical email/text messaging?
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1) a media-rich, mixed reality environment;
2) trivially scalable from individuals and memberships to dynamically
created, autonomous groups of arbitrary sizes;
3) an infrastructure that replicates, or at least approximates,
in-person group dynamics.
How does the article describe how social media transformed communication?
- It extend earlier communication protocols
- it makes communication an immersive experience
rovide three (3) examples of disrupting technologies.
Television, firearm, cloud
The article provides several “downsides” of social media. List three (3)
dopamine loops, diminishing message content reliability, cyberbullying
The article claims that one inherent feature of social media has been both widely
appreciated by users and also underappreciated by social scientists and scholars. What is
this feature?
scalability
The article gives three reasons why social media exchanges (as virtual exchanges) tend to
encourage anti-social behavior. List two (2).
no social buffering that
discourages intemperate or toxic exchanges;
social and cultural norms are
relaxed,
and normal interpersonal and social filters are held in in suspension
List two mock reality psychology studies discussed in the article.
Milgram experiment
The Stanford prison experiment
What did the Milgram experiment attempt to measure?
the willingness
of participants to blindly follow the
instructions of authority figures, even
when the instructions involved potential acts of harm to human subjects
What did the Stanford prison experiment attempt to measure?
the effects
of situational and contextual variables
on human behavior
. What did the Carnahan and McFarland experiment attempt to measure?
it measured whether self selection lead to more aggressive abuse from the people who participated
What was the important observation that Hannah Arendt made about the Nazi Holocaust?
she observed that
when the Nazi Holocaust is understood
in a broader, societal perspective, it
suggests that situational contexts are
sometimes powerful enough to induce
apparently normal, stable individuals
to engage in abnormal, immoral, or
criminal conduct.
Give three examples that would confirm Jaron Lanier’s claim that social media brings out the
worst in some people.
cyberbullying and shaming, online harassment, doxing
The author claims that in addition to being a mock psychology testbed, social media is also a
global, unsupervised experiment in what?
naïve crowd psychology
What is the “lock-in” network effect?
the pandemic of social media
The author offers an alternative social media model. What is it?
