It is not Journalists, bloggers, Twitter or Facebook that make people smarter (or dumber)…
It’s four years since Una Mullally left blogging, just around the time the Irisgate and Liam Adams stories were breaking. Writing in the Irish Times, she makes an important observation of the online melee that is t’Internet… Empathy is one of the great battles of the internet. It is the erosion of empathy – when we’re met with screens, not faces – that sees people become cruel bullies and careless insulters. In controlling empathy, tech companies are at the precipice of wider …