Mind Over Mass Media, By Steven Pinker

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In “Mind Over Mass Media,” Steven Pinker (2010) notes that if we can self-control, our brain can make a good use of new medias. At the beginning of the article, Pinker mentions that new media makes people feel panic of moral issues. Also, we are informed that electronic technologies cause us to skip the depths of knowledge and shorten our attention. But this kind of panic is found lacking elemental reality checks such as comic books were said to made teenagers delinquent in 1950s and the fall of crime cases connected with the withdraw of video games in 1990s. Actually, scientists nowadays depend on electronic media, but many of them can’t do their work without it. If electronic technologies endangered intelligence, the quality of science would