Posts Under ‘social media’ Category

Keeping a Lid on the World of Me

July 20, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in social media | No comments

Despite having a blog, I still haven’t fully embraced Twitter or Facebook. I’m scatterbrained enough and already consume too much media during the course of a day, so something has to give. Maybe when I have a book or some such product to hawk, I’ll rev up my social media machine. Meanwhile, I want to…Continue Reading…

I'm With Stupid

May 30, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in social media | 6 comments

The findings from this new study “reveals the downside of our hyperconnected lives,” writes Jonah Lehrer. Social media, he says, may be facilitating “new forms of collective action,” but it has also enabled new kinds of collective stupidity. Groupthink is now more widespread, as we cope with the excess of available information by outsourcing our beliefs to celebrities,…Continue Reading…