The impact on the human brain of computer games, social networking and the Internet has been the subject of research by Britain’s most distinguished female scientist, the Oxford University neuroscientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield. (Tim Cannon, “Can computer games harm children’s brains?”, News Weekly, November 14, 2009).In contrast to Baroness Greenfield, I am a social scientist who is proud to be called an empiricist (these days part of a dying breed). While Baroness Greenfield is interested i…
