Tag Archives: Nicholas Carr
Google as the news industry’s middle man
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was supposed to directly connect people — buyers and sellers, readers and writers, etc. — and eliminate the middle man. In reality, the middle man is more important than ever, and the biggest middle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
Posted in New Media Also tagged google, Google News, journalism, Matthew Ingram, middle man, New Media, news, Nieman Journalism Lab, Rough Type, scarcity, syndication Comments closed
Is Google making us ask unanswerable questions?
British neuroscientist Baroness Greenfield points out that prescriptions for drugs like Ritalin and diagnoses of ADHD are on the rise. She correlates that with an increase in computer use over the past decade, asks a few open ended questions and implies that computer use is rotting children’s brains.
I don’t doubt that computers will change how [...]
Posted in The Human Condition Also tagged brain, computer use, google, memory, neuroscience Comments closed
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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