FILM 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Digital Identity, Socalled, Helicopter Parent
22 Jan 2018
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Module 1 readings: how the internet makes you think you"re smarter than you really are. The mere act of using a search engine makes people think they know more about everything. - even topics unrelated to the question they just googled. Searching the internet may cause a systematic failure to recognize the extent to which we rely on outsourced knowledge, . " people mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information. Merely typing into google and scrolling through the results seemed to offer a con dence boost. Weirdly, it"s the act of searching, not just simple access to the internet, that gives people the illusion of their own brilliance. "if you don"t know the answer to a question, it"s very apparent to you that you don"t know, and it takes time and effort to nd the answer, .
