Today, an estimated 95 percent of North Americans have internet access and information is doubling every 12 months.
A June 2018 survey by Pew Research, measuring the public's ability to distinguish between five factual statements and five opinion statements, found that "a majority of Americans correctly identified at least three of the five statements in each set. But this result is only a little better than random guesses." In this study, 28 percent of adults identified two or fewer factual statements and 22 percent, two or fewer opinion statements.
San Diego University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge noted in a 2017 article in The Atlantic, "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" that, "Around 2012, I noticed abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. The gentle slopes of the line graphs became steep mountains and sheer cliffs. It was exactly the moment when the proportion of Americans who owned a smartphone surpassed 50 percent." The social findings included not hanging out with friends; no rush to learn to drive; less dating; and increased loneliness.
Technology addiction "Will increase as technology continues to advance and application, game and gadget developers find new ways to ensure users' long-term engagement with technology," cautions Isaac Vaghefi, assistant professor of management information systems at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
In 2017, Pew reported, "The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger than at any point in Pew Research Center surveys dating back to 1994." The researchers noted that, "Overall, although many Americans continue to hold a mix of liberal and conservative views across different issue areas, that share has declined over time."
A six-year study of over 360 million Facebook users and interactions with news media concluded, "Despite the wide availability of content and heterogeneous narratives, there is major segregation and growing polarization in online news consumption." Similarly, a study of more than 2.7 billion tweets, from 2009 to 2016, confirmed that Twitter users see mainly political opinions that agree with their own, noting, "The findings indicate a strong correlation between biases in the content people both produce and consume. In other words, echo chambers are very real on Twitter."
Today, most Americans can access much of the information humankind has ever produced on a smartphone.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/407661-have-smartphones-soured-americans-on-america
A June 2018 survey by Pew Research, measuring the public's ability to distinguish between five factual statements and five opinion statements, found that "a majority of Americans correctly identified at least three of the five statements in each set. But this result is only a little better than random guesses." In this study, 28 percent of adults identified two or fewer factual statements and 22 percent, two or fewer opinion statements.
San Diego University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge noted in a 2017 article in The Atlantic, "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" that, "Around 2012, I noticed abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. The gentle slopes of the line graphs became steep mountains and sheer cliffs. It was exactly the moment when the proportion of Americans who owned a smartphone surpassed 50 percent." The social findings included not hanging out with friends; no rush to learn to drive; less dating; and increased loneliness.
Technology addiction "Will increase as technology continues to advance and application, game and gadget developers find new ways to ensure users' long-term engagement with technology," cautions Isaac Vaghefi, assistant professor of management information systems at Binghamton University-State University of New York.
In 2017, Pew reported, "The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger than at any point in Pew Research Center surveys dating back to 1994." The researchers noted that, "Overall, although many Americans continue to hold a mix of liberal and conservative views across different issue areas, that share has declined over time."
A six-year study of over 360 million Facebook users and interactions with news media concluded, "Despite the wide availability of content and heterogeneous narratives, there is major segregation and growing polarization in online news consumption." Similarly, a study of more than 2.7 billion tweets, from 2009 to 2016, confirmed that Twitter users see mainly political opinions that agree with their own, noting, "The findings indicate a strong correlation between biases in the content people both produce and consume. In other words, echo chambers are very real on Twitter."
Today, most Americans can access much of the information humankind has ever produced on a smartphone.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/407661-have-smartphones-soured-americans-on-america
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