Socio-cognitive destruction: Reality or fiction?- And the imperative of ethics

• Autor(es): Costa, Gonçalo Jorge Morais da ; Silva, Nuno Miguel Araújo da
• Data: 2008
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/11144/375
• Origem: Camões - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
• Assunto(s): Web 2.0
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

The Web 2.0 has become a buzzword that is used to illustrate a wide range of online activities and applications. In fact, Web 2.0 enhances tremendously the chance to detect and re-examine cognitive, social psychological and interpersonal communication models. Moreover, cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to debate the following questions: do Web 2.0 create cognitive dissonance? In what extent? What are the consequences for younger people? And, does computer ethics may help?