{"id":133345,"date":"2021-12-30T22:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/is-social-media-killing-intellectual-humility"},"modified":"2021-12-30T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T06:23:22","slug":"is-social-media-killing-intellectual-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/is-social-media-killing-intellectual-humility","title":{"rendered":"Is social media killing intellectual humility?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWUDFge4t-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>An echo chamber is an infinity of mirrors. <\/em><em>Photo: Robert Brook via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Teaching-Humility-in-an-Age-of\/240266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a> philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch, author of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Internet-Us-Knowing-More-Understanding\/dp\/1631492772\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+internet+of+us&qid=1578414237&sr=8-1&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data<\/em><\/a>, in <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>. \u201cThe Internet of Us becomes one big reinforcement mechanism, getting us all the information we are already biased to believe, and encouraging us to regard those in other bubbles as misinformed miscreants. We know it all\u2014the internet tells us so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An echo chamber is an infinity of mirrors. Photo: Robert Brook via Getty Images \u201cOne way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,\u201d writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch, author of the book The Internet of Us: Knowing More and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-information-science","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}