Hypothesis: the lack of cynicism in today’s young is due to much of their social life being done on Facebook and other social media, and in this type of medium it is a common, easy and obvious thing to do to share articles.
I don’t think in 1990 anyone brought me a printed paper mag and asked me to read this article. A handful of times, when it was something truly revolutionary and special, but anything even remotely mainstream not. We did not share our media consumption much. I may have been reading the same heavy metal mag as others, but we rarely discusessed it beyond “Seen that interview with Megadeth?” “Yeah, badass.”
It is through article sharing and shared, communal media consumption how the Facebook generation lost its cynicism against official media headline ideas.
Are younger people less cynical? I honestly don’t know, and I’m curious about your evidence.
My impression is that used to be a lot less debunking around, not that all of the debunking is accurate, either. Who’s reading all those “7 Things You’re Entirely Wrong About” articles from Cracked?
My impression is that used to be a lot less debunking around, not that all of the debunking is accurate, either. Who’s reading all those “7 Things You’re Entirely Wrong About” articles from Cracked?
I understand I am dangerously close to a fully general argument now :) But I think there is a lot of debunking going on because the default stance seems to be to believe the mainstream media, and I think 20 years ago the default stance was to be skeptical about it.
How to put it… I would be really surprised if a friend of mine offered a debunking of the abs trainer sold in TV shop because we are not supposed to believe it at all, that is not the default stance… “everybody” understands it is mainly about scamming suckers. And roughly the same about the media in general.
… and then I became enlightened.
Hypothesis: the lack of cynicism in today’s young is due to much of their social life being done on Facebook and other social media, and in this type of medium it is a common, easy and obvious thing to do to share articles.
I don’t think in 1990 anyone brought me a printed paper mag and asked me to read this article. A handful of times, when it was something truly revolutionary and special, but anything even remotely mainstream not. We did not share our media consumption much. I may have been reading the same heavy metal mag as others, but we rarely discusessed it beyond “Seen that interview with Megadeth?” “Yeah, badass.”
It is through article sharing and shared, communal media consumption how the Facebook generation lost its cynicism against official media headline ideas.
Are younger people less cynical? I honestly don’t know, and I’m curious about your evidence.
My impression is that used to be a lot less debunking around, not that all of the debunking is accurate, either. Who’s reading all those “7 Things You’re Entirely Wrong About” articles from Cracked?
I understand I am dangerously close to a fully general argument now :) But I think there is a lot of debunking going on because the default stance seems to be to believe the mainstream media, and I think 20 years ago the default stance was to be skeptical about it.
How to put it… I would be really surprised if a friend of mine offered a debunking of the abs trainer sold in TV shop because we are not supposed to believe it at all, that is not the default stance… “everybody” understands it is mainly about scamming suckers. And roughly the same about the media in general.