Rutgers student death: Has Digital Age made students callous? - CSMonitor.com
“There have been some studies that suggest that it [new media technology] does dissolve some of the human connections: It objectifies people,” says Maureen Costello [CQ], director of Teaching Tolerance, an education program based at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala.
One recent University of Michigan study found that college students’ empathy declined by about 40 percent between 1979 and 2009, with the biggest drop-off occurring after 2000.
