{"id":145,"date":"2009-11-17T12:41:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:41:54","slug":"social-media-and-working-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/social-media-and-working-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and Working Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a story that's been making the rounds lately. I think the Telegraph might have been the first major media venue to give it coverage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/twitter\/6147668\/Facebook-enhances-intelligence-but-Twitter-diminishes-it-claims-psychologist.html\">Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it', claims psychologist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/09\/07\/facebook-smarter-twitter-dumber\/\">Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/story\/0,28348,26045185-5014239,00.html\">Facebook makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/editors-choice\/2009\/09\/07\/twitter-turns-you-into-a-twit-but-facebook-makes-you-clever-says-expert-86908-21653820\/\">Twitter turns you into a twit but Facebook makes you clever, says expert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/htww\/2009\/09\/09\/facebook_smarter_twitter_dumber\/index.html\">How Facebook and Twitter warp your brain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But what's the science behind the hype? After scrounging though these articles for data (without success) I went to the presumed source, Tracy Alloway's <a href=\"http:\/\/tracyalloway.com\/\">personal website<\/a>. Unfortunately the only reference there to either Twitter or Facebook seems to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/tracyalloway.com\/index.php\/working-memory\/working-memory-in-the-news\/\">collection of links<\/a>, which point to the articles cited above.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I'm beginning to feel like I'm running in circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's a story that's been making the rounds lately. I think the Telegraph might have been the first major media venue to give it coverage: Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it', claims psychologist. Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber Facebook makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker Twitter turns you <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/social-media-and-working-memory\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Social Media and Working Memory\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[131,257,291,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social","7":"tag-facebook","8":"tag-psychology","9":"tag-social-media","10":"tag-twitter","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1523,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/is-college-worth-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":145,"position":0},"title":"Using Scribd to Ask: &#8220;Is College Worth It?&#8221;","author":"Bart Everson","date":"December 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill Gates provides a good overview of the challenges facing higher education. 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