This presentation was made for Film 260 at Queen's University. It argues the role Internet plays in our lives, and the extent to which it has manipulated our minds.

1. The
Power
of the
Internet
Over the
Mind
By Kavina
Sathiyasothy
image by Leeks

2. The Internet has gained
access to our minds.
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3. It can now shape our
behaviours…
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4. & our abilities to think and process
information.
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5. The overload of information has left our
critical and creative thinking at risk.
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6. As we spend more and more
time on digital technology, it becomes harder
and harder for us to pay attention to the
world before us.
image by Dave Patrick

7. The multitasking
we’ve achieved has
shortened our
attention span for a
single activity.
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8. The Internet has helped reduce the average
attention span of 12 minutes to 5 minutes over ten
years.
image by Robert S. Donovan
Source: How Social Media is Ruining Our Minds

9. Teachers have to change their
lessons to accommodate this
cognitive deterioration.
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10. I’m an
entertainer.
I have to do a
song and dance
to capture their
attention.
-Hope Molina-Porter
Source: Technology Changing How
Students Learn, Teachers Say
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11. Knowledge being a click away has changed our
style of learning and applying information.
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12. No longer are countless hours spent
trying to solve a math problem
… and why should it be?
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13. With answers online, we’ve become too dependent
on the Internet to provide us with thought processes
we should be developing ourselves.
image by PetitPlat-Stephanie Kilgast

14. And there’s more...
Children are becoming less able to separate fact
from fiction.
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15. The Internet has no
filter, no peer
review… So how do
we sort
out the
lies?
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16. And then there is
our mental health.
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17. Research
has linked
increased
Internet use
among children
with feelings of
loneliness and
depression.
Source: Institute of Psychological
Sciences in Leeds, UK
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18. More online
time results in
less time
spent with
the people in
your lives, and
on hobbies.
image by Julien Haler
How?

19. The rapid and
instant nature
of Internet
stimulation
alters the
way a young
person sees
the world.
image by Mads Boedker

20. We become bored with
everyday life & isolate
ourselves from the
natural world.
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21. The Internet is the new drug,
& our minds the zombie-like
slaves of the digital world
and its gadgets.
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22. This isn’t to say that the Internet
doesn’t have it’s benefits
but…
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23. “The best thing
we can do for our
minds is to find
some time every
day to unplug, calm
down, and focus on
one thing at a
time.”
-Nicholas Carr
Source: What the Internet is Doing
to Our Brains (Epipheo.TV) image by RelaxingMusic

24. Credits
All images are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Non-Commercial
Share-Alike 3.0 agreement,
and sourced from Flickr.
image by seyed mostafa zamani

25. Sources
http://www.livestrong.com/article/127946-teenagers-internet-
addiction/
http://www.livestrong.com/article/134688-internet-addiction-
health-effects/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/books/review/Lehrer-t.html?
_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1368590999-
mUsJfNx30W6dhRNtXhEMOw
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/education/technology-is-
changing-how-students-learn-teachers-say.html?_r=1&
http://socialtimes.com/attention-spans-have-dropped-from-12-
minutes-to-5-seconds-how-social-media-is-ruining-our-minds-
infographic_b86479
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=cKaWJ72x1rI#!
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