Week Nine Reading Reaction #2

There has been no shortage of discussion about technology and attention span. The article that we read this week touches on this issue of cognitive perspective, not just by considering the issue of how we regard information distributed by the media, but how the information is presented in various formats that forces our perspective abilities to change in order to understand the information that is being presented. When I think of the amount of information that is presented on a typical news program, it is almost unbelievable how much information is presented in the series of several minuets. When watching CNN, for instance, there is a report being given by a reported, a ticker at the bottom of the screen and information being posted in the corner. The amount of information that we are bombarded with in such a short period of times makes it nearly impossible for us to filter and makes sense of all that information. Our brains are not able to process all of the information in a  reasonable form so that we are able to make sense of the information presented. I feel at times that I am forced to blend ideas together because one story moves so quickly into the other, that I have not even had enough time to truly understand what it is I just was presented. I do not feel this allows any of us to be critically reflective of the information presented. If we are unable to be reflective than what exactly is the point of the information if at cannot make any reasonable impact.