This Wednesday, May 11, AEI is going to have the next American Enterprise Debate between economist Tyler Cowen and philosopher Roger Scruton on the issue of social media and its impact on human relationships. One of our Twitter followers describes it best: “A debate between Tyler Cowen and Roger Scruton is basically the material world reifying my own mental processes.”
I think those of us who use social media frequently are conflicted by their impact on our lives. Do social media, as Tyler Cowen argues in an essay in the Wilson Quarterly, make us smarter and allow us to do more in our lives? Or do they cause us to “hide behind the screen” and harm our ability to cultivate fruitful interpersonal relationships, as Roger Scruton claims in a New Atlantis essay? Is it both or neither of these things?
Before our debate this week, the Enterprise Blog has decided to convene a small forum of young social media users here at AEI to provide their own perspectives on this question:
— Research assistant Andrew Rugg evokes Alexis de Tocqueville to argue that social networking tends to enable isolation and doesn’t bring people together in any meaningful way.
— Online communications assistant Ladan Nekoomaram says that social media is what we make of it, and in general, it’s a good thing for ourselves and our world.
— Research assistant Miriel Thomas suggests that Scruton’s valid concerns about social media should inspire us to use them more thoughtfully without renouncing them altogether.
— The American’s assistant editor Joy Pullmann points out that the question of social media brings us to a broader question about self-government.
— Research assistant Gabriel Sudduth argues that while social media isn’t inherently good or bad, its interaction with human nature tends to be harmful to relationships and character.
— Development associate Ashley May thinks that the social networks we join simply reflect ourselves and our personalities.
— Research assistant Rohit Parulkar believes that the value of a social network depends on the type of social network we join.
You can register for the debate or watch it online here. And put in your two cents on our Facebook page or on Twitter with the hashtag #AEIDebates.
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