Yuna Chong: Google research question

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Yuna Chong

To what extent has the existence of Google changed the way our memory works?

I just thought of a question I may have more interest in:

To what extent has the existence of Google’s online social world effect communications?

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3 Responses to Yuna Chong: Google research question

  1. Ives says:
    October 18, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    Hey Yuna!
    I’m also interested in the relation between Google and how it alters a part of human memory. I believe that your question is valid, however it is a bit broad because you’ve chosen two giant topics. I was thinking maybe you can focus on a certain aspect of Google (ex: the frequency of searches or the popularity of Google) and how that relates to human memory to further your studies/research project!
    Hope it helps (though mine isn’t any better. :x)
    Good luck! ^^

  2. kr128919 says:
    October 21, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    Hi Yuna,
    I am quite impressed by your question, seeing as how significant a part Google has become between the socialization of individuals. However, your question is a bit general, and could still be narrowed down. What exactly do you mean by online social world? Are you referring to Google’s ability to find us websites where we can chat with individuals from all over the world? Is it the Google G-mail accounts, which allow us to work with people on documents simultaneously? Or maybe it could be the articles that Google provides us access to regarding world events? Once you have specified what you mean Google’s “online social world”, I can see some very nice potential in this question!

  3. Stephen Francoeur says:
    October 26, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    Yuna, the question about memory is an interesting one. I wonder, though, if any changes in the way memory works (or people use their memory) can be attributed to just one company (albeit the leading one when it comes to search). Maybe you might just want to investigate whether our ability to find things on the web has altered the way we store things in our memory. That “we” though is tricky. Who is included in that “we?” All Americans? All westerners? All those who have web access at home? Psychological research doesn’t always get to the difficult questions about cross-cultural differences in the way humans behave; the research we’ve discussed in class about search engines and memory is guilty of this, too. This is just another way of saying that your topic is a good one but you need to show evidence of how complicated it really is in the wording of your question. If you can make the question more narrowly focused and filled with qualifications, you’ll have done a great deal to refine your question and make it better.

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