Hulsey.+Empathy+2.0.

=**Hulsey, Timothy. "Empathy 2.0: Virtual Intimacy."**= Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 91.1 (2011): 1. EBSCOhost. Web. 19 Mar. 2011.

By Roaquiem Manderson

** Abstract **
No abstract.

** Argument ** This article presents some of the advantages and disadvantages of social media and human beings being more connected to one another than any other time in recorded history. The pros of social media include an increase in connection and communication. Online social networks foster the growth  "ambient awareness " in technological circles, and this new way of relating allows us to be knowledgeable about the lives of people we may or may riot have actually met without much effort.

A decrease in concern for the well being of others are among the cons, as more time spent in the virtual world means less involvement with the real world.Rice University computer scientist G. Anthony Gorry says that in this new digital age we might "know more and more about others and care less and less about them."

** Key Passages **
Jaron Lanier, who coined the term “virtual reality”, convinces his students at University of California’s Annenerg School for Communication and Journalism not to tweet or blog in class with this saying:

“If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?”

** Selected Works Cited ** Gorry, G. A. (2009). Empathy in the virtual world. //The Chronicle of Higher Education//, August 31, 2009.