Compare and Contrast

Thesis Statement

In Steven Johnson's, "Watching TV Makes You Smarter," and Nicholas Carr's, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" both authors highlight the ways media have changed the world today; Johnson argues that television is having a positive effect on society and in fact is making us smarter, while Carr contends that media, especially the internet limits our ability for deep thought.

Introduction

In this paper, I would like to compare and contrast two article, “Is Google making us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr with “Watching TV, makes us Smarter” by Steven Johnson. Both authors discuss the cognition of the human brain and how neurons stimulate in different contexts. With an interesting start of each article, authors argue different points from the psychological perspective. Carr and Johnson define the consequences by using Google and by watching TV.

Compare and Contrast

Carr introduces a negative picture of Google that influences on the minds of human beings. He emphasizes that Google is making “Human” lazy and ineffective (Carr, p.1). While, Nicholas Carr introduces a positive picture of watching TV that influences on the cognitive part of human's mind. He emphasizes that TV is increasing people ability to think and enhance the sense of awareness. He also discusses the negative impact of TV on the minds of society (Johnson, p.1).

Nicholas Carr presented some suggestions that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and that it has negative consequences on the mind. On the other hand, Johnson is also a technology writer affection that suggestion about TV (Johnson, p.2).

He presented some evidence that is really helpful in increasing the ability to think beyond the things. Thinking critically about both articles, I can find some patterns in their writing, such as fact and fiction, cause and effect, presenting evidence with an argument, and tonal qualities. Carr starts his article ...