Elearning Stuff

James, Lilian, Lisa and Ron discuss the recent publicity over Susan Greenfield’s comments in the Daily Mail on the “dangers” of social networking and young people’s brains. Does using social networking sites lead to loneliness and isolation? Do users of Facebook and Twitter feel excluded from society. In this podcast we discuss the furore and the issues. This is the fifteenth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Social networking rots your brains. Shownotes * James’ blog post on this subject. * BBC News reports on Susan Greenfield. * The story then ran in the Daily Mail and Susan was interviewed. * Dr Ben Goldacre has published his reaction to the article on the Bad Science blog. * Dr Ben Goldacre also linked to some useful academic papers which dispute the “connection” between social networking and loneliness. o Caplan SE published a paper in 2007 entitled: “Relations among loneliness, social anxiety, and problematic Internet use.” Dr Sigman did not quote this paper in his article. Why