The Domination of the Title: Killing Critical Thinking before it’s Born

A. Babii
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 Abstract — The rapid evolution of technology determined a wide accessibility of the Internet. From using Internet only for work to using it almost at every hour this tool is now as an extension of our brain. This favored changes in our mind as: shortage of our attention, loss of focus, skimmed reading and a constant desire for instant gratification. One of the unfortunate consequences is that people do not have patience to read a long text anymore. We know that online texts have to be in short paragraphs, with bold keywords and with a lot of images nearby in order for them to be taken into account by users, but there is a phenomenon that is more severe than that. More and more people are reading only the title of a text and they think they have the sufficient information. We discuss about a tyranny of the title, of which media and advertisers are taking advantage. By creating a title that seems to tell all the story and attaching a photo to it (that it can even not be real), these entities mislead the readers and make them believe that they are informed and that they understood the story. This paper’s aim is to present a corpus analysis of the comments of newspapers’ news on social networks and prove that most of them are not connected to the content of the article. In the same time, we try to find explanation for this dangerous behavior that affects people’s critical
标题的统治:在批判性思维诞生之前扼杀它
摘要-技术的快速发展决定了互联网的广泛可访问性。从只在工作中使用互联网到现在几乎每小时都使用互联网,这个工具现在已经成为我们大脑的延伸。这有利于我们的思维变化:我们的注意力不足,失去焦点,略读和不断渴望即时满足。不幸的后果之一是,人们不再有耐心阅读一篇长文了。我们知道,在线文本必须是简短的段落,加粗的关键字和大量的图片附近,以便他们被用户考虑,但有一个现象比这更严重。越来越多的人只看文章的标题,他们认为自己已经获得了足够的信息。我们讨论了标题的暴政,媒体和广告商正在利用这一点。通过创造一个似乎讲述了所有故事的标题,并附上一张照片(甚至可能不是真的),这些实体误导了读者,让他们相信他们已经了解了所有的故事,他们理解了这个故事。本文的目的是对社交网络上报纸新闻的评论进行语料库分析,并证明其中大多数评论与文章内容无关。与此同时,我们试图找到这种危险行为的解释,影响人们的批评
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