As my exhibit, I have chosen social media because nowadays every other person uses some sort of social media platform especially the younger generations hence the future of the world. It has its entertainment and educational purposes but have you ever stopped to wonder about what significance it has brought in your life. After a while, people start to completely give in to these social media platforms that they start to spend more time looking at how other people are living rather then living their own lives. For my lens, I have chosen brain plasticity because it can be easily used to show the negative affects of social media platforms. The pairing of this Exhibit and this lens is very illuminating to the general reader because the reader may find himself in a very similar situation due to this exhibit being very broad and diverse. Due to the fact that social media was recently created between the last two decades, we can see how it has changed the way our mind works and how it is similar to books but much more vague. When a person goes on a social media platform, he is exposing his brain to many ideas, which is harmful for a person because there is a lot of manipulative content on them.

In the article, “Playing video games is good for your brain” by Mark Griffiths, the exhibit was the educational, and therapeutic benefits of playing video games. Mark stated “in a series of experiments on small numbers of gamers (10 to 14 people in each study), the researchers reported that gamers with previous experience of playing such action video games were better at perceptual tasks such as pattern discrimination than gamers with less experience.” (PG 1) The chosen lens for this exhibit, is cognitive surplus. In the article, ” Does the Internet Make You Smarter?” by Clay Shirky, the lens appeared on page two, which stated in part, “our cognitive surplus is so enormous that diverting even a tiny fraction of time from consumption to participation can create enormous positive effects.” Such positive effects can also be found in the exhibit of Mark’ article, for there are benefits of playing video games. Those benefiting can also, with their “cognitive surplus”, benefit others. This pairing interests me, because while there are benefits of the internet and/or video games, yet on the other side of the spectrum, there could be negative results as well. This has shown me, that much depends on how a person goes about utilizing the Internet, or video games.

According to the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? ” by Nicholas Carr, the different point of view to support his idea about internet. In the article, the lens of “Brain Plasticity” is  more interesting than other. It means how our brains adapt to new situations, and it could be more affect than we think. The exhibit that I choose to support the lens is ” Complex brain functions help adapt to new situations and stimuli ” by David Badre. It talks about Our brain have the ability to take action during difficulty simulation, even in an uncertain situation. The brain functions can help adapt to new situations or even change it.