SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 10/25/11 — announces an event to tackle the questions and implications of our ubiquitous social networking habit and its impact on our brains.
More than a billion people around the world are engaged in a massive and unprecedented experiment in how social media technologies are changing society, commerce, politics, health, innovation, love, work, the arts and more. But what is this new tech literally doing to our brains? This event, in association with The Bay Area Science Festival and the Science & Technology Forum, will discuss:
How it impacts who we are as humans
How is it making us different from previous generations in how we interact with information, our environment and each other
This provocative panel features a variety of perspectives: a neuroscientist who studies the impact of multitasking on our gray matter as well as experts who believe new social networking may be leading us to a more connected and even better world, and those wary of the physiological and societal impact that social media has on humanity.
, founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, who became interested in science since childhood and discovered his passion for the brain during his undergraduate years. His research is focused on expanding our understanding of alterations in the aging brain that lead to cognitive decline and how we can improve our attention and memory abilities.
, a filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards, has created various films in a unique fusion of documentaries and narratives to discuss subjects including politics, cultural identity, technology, and science. Her film, Connected: An Autobiography about Love, Death, and Technology, discusses what it means to be “connected” in the 21st century.
, author of Experimental Man and Co-host of Tech Talk Radio, will discuss how all of this new technology is affecting us as humans and how it is making us different from other generations in how we interact with information, our environment, and even each other.
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Media interested in attending should please RSVP to:
Enies Burton, INFORUM PR Chair, (415) 597-6719
Caroline Moriarity Sacks, INFORUM Director, (415) 597-6719 or
Caroline Moriarity Sacks
INFORUM
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