Jerry Mander is an American activist and author, best known for his 1977 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. After receiving his M.S. from Columbia, Jerry worked in advertising for many years. He later worked with the noted environmentalist, David Brower, managing the Sierra Club’s advertising campaigns, In 1971 he founded the first non-profit advertising…
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Ethan Zuckerman: An MIT Associate Professor Using Digital Media for Social Change
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and an Associate Professor of the Practice at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. He…
Chris Kresser: A Father with a Functional Medicine Perspective on Digital Technology
Chris Kresser is a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, nutrition, and functional and integrative medicine. He is the New York Times bestselling author of two books: The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine. Chris is the co-founder and co-director at the California Center for Functional Medicine. He is also the creator of the…
Tech Talk Tuesday
Screenagers filmmaker, Dr. Delaney Ruston, shares her family’s weekly topics to help you manage and decrease struggles around screen time. Subscribe to her Tech Talk Tuesday program to receive conversation starters about social media, video game use, tech tips, latest research and more. TTTs work any day but the key is to stick with it….
HOPELAB Study Reveals Some Positive Effects of Social Media
A new study by Hopelab researchers Victoria Rideout, M.A. and Susannah Fox titled “Digital Health Practices, Social Media Use, and Mental Well-Being Among Teens and Young Adults in the U.S.” offers a revolutionary view on teens and young adults in relation to social media. The 2018 study reveals that social media may play a significant role…
How Is Your Phone Changing You? The video.
For those of you that are bored of reading long articles, here is an extremely engaging video about how phones are negatively impacting us. There are more sides to the issue of digital technology than the negative ones but this video argues that instead of obliterating phones, we should begin taking “smartphone vacations”, a break…
Phones are making teens better behaved and less hedonistic
This Economist article talks about how teens are drinking less, getting into less trouble and having less sex than 20 years ago perhaps because their social needs are being met through technology. Parents are able to supervise their teens more now than ever with constant access to technology like location and data tracking apps. “Social media allow…
super cool books
Get The F*ck Off Your Screen “To shut down an argument over whether my kid could have more screen time (no, no and no), I sent myself to my room until I was ready to talk calmly. Then I got online to research Outward Bound programs and text my friend Lia about how much I hate…
An Apple a day keeps my parents away
How the iPhone changed my family. I wrote this in 2011, when I was 10 years old. Chapter 1: It all began with my dad It all started with my dad. When he first bought an iPhone 3 he got lost in the realm of these strange electronic devices that were brand new and…