Media – in information storms | nd-aktuell.de

As we take the psychology department of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, people “are currently drowning” in a “flood of information”. In addition to the well -known world oceans – Atlantic, Pacific etc. – the sheet reports, there is another ocean: the “Ocean of endless information”. As a bumgobe of marine biologists, we want to cry out: But there is only one ocean, everything salt water is related! But the “Süddeutsche” already analyzes: Those who take the smartphone in their hands often lose themselves in “infinite offers”. To testify this and all the deputy dangers, the paper has been able to move a psychologist to testify, Mr. Stephan Lewandowsky from the University of Bristol. This has analyzed the whole predicament of our drowning for years and therefore advises us to consciously ignore “certain content”.

Yes, Good God, but which one! How can I weigh the value of different content against each other without taking note of them? This problem is worthy of this problem, the registered expert does what only examinated experts can do: say “gut feeling”, without “gut feeling”. Lewandowsky’s Lifehack: »I like to compare this with the search for food from animals: they follow a trail that is promising – such as a smell – and then decide whether the search is worth it. It is similar with information. We move through a huge landscape, and if something seems interesting to us, we can decide: go over or deepen. “

But that flooded me now! I was still sinking on oceans, now I ended up in a landscape! The flood of information seems to be accompanied by earthquake-like metaphor thunderstorms. Headlines from the last five minutes scroll in front of my inner eye: “People would most likely do without the sense of smell”. How do you want to orientate yourself in the information desert? “I don’t watch films, says Denzel Washington.” That seems to be the message of the day. Just see more, sniff, want to know. Newspaper too. Tschüs! Splendid.