Charles Seife's The Loneliness Of The Interconnected
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Literary Analysis of The Loneliness of the Interconnected In Charles Seife’s essay The Loneliness of the Interconnected he discusses the issues facing the widespread use of the internet and the effects it can have on its users and how its users can affect others. He asserts that use of the internet is allowing us to become more extreme in our beliefs by allowing us to connect with each other online. He looks into different examples that prove his thesis such as information theory, Speaker’s Corner, internet diseases, media narrowcasting, and solipsism. Seife begins his essay by introducing the concept of information theory. This states that any message we receive is not information unless it is, to some extent, unexpected. If you know the