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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 6 sec.) ; 169807791 bytes |
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Is digital technology changing the way we think, act and feel? Are our brains being re-wired fundamentally? Catalyst examines how the digital revolution is changing us.INFORMATION OVERLOADDigital technology has changed almost every aspect of our lives: how we socialise, shop, entertain ourselves, and even manage our health. The speed of the digital takeover has led many to wonder whether today's children and teenagers, with little or no recollection of a life before broadband, are being fundamentally changed by the technology. Is this new access to information broadening and deepening our knowledge, or is fast information like fast food? Is information overload turning us into scattered, shallow thinkers?THE RISE OF NARCISSISMFacebook is now the number one search term on the internet. Even away from the screen, many of us are obsessing about our online social life, editing our real life experiences for the approval of others. It's not just Facebook. There's Twitter, Vimeo, blogs, MySpace, YouTube - a plethora of sites all geared towards broadcasting yourself. But is all this self-focus creating what some researchers are terming a narcissism epidemic? Anja Taylor takes a closer look at the effect of social networking on how we view ourselves and those around us.AVATARSAvatars are digital representations of us in the virtual computer world. We already interact via avatars on computer games and you can even sit at home and meet your friends in virtual reality, complete with gestures and facial expressions. But can having an avatar change human behaviour? Graham Phillips travels to Stanford University in California where researchers are exploring how having a virtual experience can affect our health and behaviour, but also how it can mislead us into believing experiences that never really happened.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Series Producer: Matt Scully |
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Broadcast 2012-10-18 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Computers and civilization.
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Digital electronics -- Social aspects.
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Intelligent agents (Computer software)
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Narcissism -- Social aspects.
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Online social networks.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Phillips, Graham, host
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Taylor, Anja, reporter
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Bahrami, Bahador, contributor
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Bailenson, Jeremy, contributor
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Greenfield, Susan, contributor
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Nicholas, David, contributor
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Twenge, Jean, contributor
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