Summary Of Wired World By Peter Gibbon

Author Peter Gibbon goes into detail on how the media has been linked with constant negative effects in society. He shows this by explaining that our society has become a “Wired World”(Gibbon 249). He informs the reader that the media has the ability to misinform people on current issues which results in turning people into a, cynical, suspicious, and fearful person. “It can lead us to lose faith in our nation, repudiate our past, question our leaders, and cease to believe in progress”(Gibbon 249)
The media as well posses an empire of information. This information can impact small towns and cities which can then impact other nations. This is a feature that was seen as unimaginable to our ancestors but it is now a reality. Despite all of this negativity the author believes there is faith in the future. We must be able to study our past in order to avoid becoming arrogant and the remember the positive things that way we can also avoid becoming cynical.
Gibbon, a researcher at Boston University does a tremendous job at persuading the reader that the media has impacted, and played a pivotal role in the way people have recently viewed the world around them. He goes into great detail explaining what the media has done to impact people starting by explaining how the simple change from newspaper, and magazines to television and radio have slowly paved the way to something worst. He is trying to say that this change has made today's society lazy in the way that we don't retain the proper vocabulary that we once had. He states this by saying “ one editor reminded me that newspaper stories are now aimed at a sixth grade reading level”(Gibbon 248). This information shows the reader just how impactful one change can make on people, and modern society, as well as demonstrate Gibbons understanding of the issue at