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

• Author(s): Costa, Gonçalo Jorge Morais da ; Silva, Nuno Miguel Araújo da
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11144/375
• Origin: Camões - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Web 2.0
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

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?