However, alongside these virtuous developments, the same infrastructure has facilitated the spread of low-quality content, fake news, simplifications and biases typical of many social media. The algorithmic management of information, aimed at maximizing engagement, has often privileged emotionalism and brevity over complexity and depth, contributing, according to various studies, to a decline in the average level of attention and critical thinking.
The growing crisis of traditional publishers and media, born in the Gutenberg galaxy, undermines the established cultural mediation of previous centuries, based on the authority of certified sources.
Thus, network technology has initiated a cognitive revolution that is still incomplete, with an uncertain outcome.
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