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Toxic media show little, but quarantined life offers rich opportunities

A November 2019 survey, carried out by DataSenado, points out that the main communication channel used by participants nowadays is WhatsApp, with 79% of usage.

Last week, we followed a series of news about the accident involving the presenter Augusto Liberato. After a domestic accident, the communicator was taken to the emergency room, where he was hospitalized for observation in the ICU of a hospital in Orlando, USA.

Our well-being and our health depend directly on the quality of our thoughts and our feelings and emotions. This is a statement based on solid scientific evidence accumulated recently in various areas of knowledge, in addition to being a guideline for various philosophical and religious currents.

Our survey went wild. Check out the results and our complete analysis. Let’s debate?

The article from Peter H. Diamonis, published in the American website “Big Think”, explains well the negative bias of our attention. Check it!

Drauzio Varella: “Despite the existent common sense between specialists that the relation among cause and effect between violence shown through the mass media and the future practice of violent acts by the viewers is long timely characterized, the theme stills being approached with an irresponsible superficiality by the communicators, as if that association wasn’t being clearly established.”

This article has good advices on how to free ourselves from the negative effects from violent media: simply turn it off; have empathy, but not to the point that it paralises us; change habits and prefer a medialess way; find out what media is good to us.