Internet vs TV: how to stop believing and start thinking?

The method by which you get information not only affects your knowledge and solutions. It shapes your view of the world, creates a relation to itself, society, politics and the country. The concepts of right and wrong are blurred to a disgrace, but you can still develop the ability to think, to compare and decide. To date, there are two basic ways by which people receive information - TV and Internet. Television affect us since childhood, and that he can say "thank you" for the many opinions and attitudes. Later came the Internet, which has taken a firm place among the methods of obtaining information. Communications between the two titans is a huge difference, as in the process of presenting information, as in the film world, which is formed from them.

Do not think, just believe

Information retold by one person, is not objective. As much as he did not describe in detail the events in his retelling reflect his point of view. If his story will retell again lost another part of objectivity and, in the end, it turned into something that bears little resemblance to the truth. This is true even if the person is not going to hide the truth and simply retells it in his way that we talk about the carefully selected and filtered the information that comes from screens TV? Information about any event arrive in strict dosage selected and licked. Events covered on one side with the desired angle and then commented to accurately form the right attitude.

When this information is available and easy to understand, its flow is continuous and is formed so that the attention of the audience did not vanish.

The public buys their views as well as buying milk, because it is cheaper than using your own cow. Only then the milk is composed mainly of water. FROM. Butler

TV - it's a one-way means of communication. The viewer can not communicate, argue, ask. He did not answer and did not prove, so that there is only one thing - to believe. Or not, but about it later.

The main essence of the TV - not a vision, and fabricated data stream that can be processed anyway, to protect or to impose certain cultural values. Terence Kemp McKenna

The abundance of channels creates an illusion of choice, but because the transfer has not selected audience. meanwhile TV viewing and addictive brain adjusts to accept any information without understanding. In 1969 it was carried out experiment on the influence of television on the human brain. Herbert Krugman, Ph.D., of Columbia University and former president of the Association for the study of public opinion, in the course of the experiment found that for watching TV during the one minuteHuman brain switches from Beta waves responsible for logical thinking and analysis on the Alpha waves. Alpha waves have a frequency from 8 to 13Hz and are associated with a relaxed, somewhat elevated state and meditation suggestibility. That is, not only that the information supplied in the same perspective, it is also perfectly imprinted in the brain without your knowledge. It seems that with the spread of Internet television left by the wayside, but in reality it is not so. BBC conducted study, Polled 3,600 consumers in different countries in Europe and Asia about television viewing. 43% of consumers said that watching television more often than five years ago, and 83% do so on the screen of the tablet. So that television, with all its shortcomings, has no intention to take positions, and remains one of the main sources of news so far.

Do you want to - I think you do not want - do not

As a source of information, the Internet has big advantages over TV. The Internet can not directly influence the perception of reality, because the information in it is very diverse, and each person chooses what he see, read and hear. This complicates the control of the people, of course, not canceling it altogether. Unlike TV, where the information is supplied unilaterally, and society is perceived as a faceless mass, Internet - is a collection of specific individuals, each of whom is entitled to their own opinion, and actively expressed his. Moreover, the television screen is pouring a stream of information, calculated on the weight and on the Internet there is a clear structure - a community of people by age, ethnicity, religious views, etc. online community members are not ready information, seasoned with another's opinion, a lot of different variations, comments, opinions, which can be assessed and make their output. It gives space for reflection and helps to create its own picture of the world. However, getting information through the Internet does not mean that people will think he is guaranteed. Information on the Internet can hardly be called objective, because it provided people with their views and aims. If you read the news in one site and just take everything at face value, it's not too different from watching TV.

learning methodology

To find the truth, or at least to grab her by the ghostly, elusive tail, it is necessary to examine several points of view. Even the most obvious things can be represented in a different way, to form the reader's particular point of view, not speaking directly about a particular event. If you do not want to receive the images and ready to consume everything that you impose on other people, develop critical thinking:

1. Do not trust one source. If you read the news on one site, no matter how popular it may be, it does not mean that you have laid out all the facts and nothing concealed. Whatever topic you are interested in any worth checking out at least three sources, and it is desirable to find opposing views. Reading reviews, articles and comments in any case you become, infected with the mood of the author, begin to gravitate toward its point of view. Having read dramatically opposite view, you will be able to critically reflect on and evaluate, to build up their own minds and decide what do you lean.
2. Check information sources. In the articles, as a rule, there are links to sources of information, and if you need to make up their minds about the event, do not be lazy to go to the link. If the unknown publication, which can not be found, we can hardly trust such news are used as the source. another - it is not only words, but also a way to feed, and even if the source is acknowledged in the article, you can simply a different accents, and create in the reader the opposite attitude.
3. Watch out for errors. If the article there are grammatical or spelling errors, you should consider the competence of the author and his relation to the material.
4. Evaluate the degree of confidence. Worthy of trust whether text, which is written, "experts say", but at the same time silent, what is this experts, or say "studies have confirmed," but there is no word about the study itself or of him who conducted. It is also difficult to trust the article, if the author specifies the names of experts, of which there is no mention on the Internet. So an expert can be called his neighbor Uncle Vasya from the factory and with authority to declare anything based on his opinion.

That can not but rejoice, in the framework of the aforementioned BBC study, 42% of people first hear about the event on TV, and then, 66% of respondents go online to find out more. It is hoped that the Internet they will not blindly trust a single article. No matter what the theme relate your searches: emergency situation, or historical information on healthy eating tips.

Critical thinking is useful to you in any way - check the facts and order your assumptions, you'll be much less dependent on public opinion, imposed attitudes and values.