CHAPTER 10: AI AND SOCIAL MEDIA – HOW IS IT AFFECTING US?

“Dave, Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.”

Nicholas Carr in The Shallows

Less than a decade ago, many researchers considered social media only as a passing trend. Today, social media has fully penetrated mainstream society. Most of us are active on at least one major social media platform, but we still fail to understand just how much impact daily social media use can have. It may be entertaining to scroll through all the newest memes or updates from all your “friends,” but we often can’t see the ways in which social media is changing how we think and act.

Overall, available evidence indicates that the use of social media can also result in acute ...

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