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Black Mirror or Black Hole? American Phone Screen Time Statistics


The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age by Ben Agger
Portraits in Life and Death (Intro) by Susan Sontag
https://mark.kerrigan.co/posts/2024/portraits-in-life-and-death.pdf
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/wild-fans-outraged-tiktok-influencers-012801362.html


https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/heartfield/

https://www.readloosey.com/p/have-we-all-lost-our-minds?selection=7107ba8e-ddb2-4b71-9dc6-e594cac43ab3
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-toxic-ideas-online-irony-analysis.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e5a5140-8f17-4a37-b1c8-34f0d72746bc_750x562.jpeg
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-irony-bro
E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/literacy_report.pdf
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/meta-censorship-moderation/index.html
https://substack.com/inbox/post/155290235?utm_source=unread-posts-digest-email&inbox=true&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
https://embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-just-have-to-be-bored

0:00 – intro
3:36 – when social media was fun
15:18 – the algorithm
23:09 – the irony problem
35:59 – conclusion

I’m Addicted to My Phone: Pro vs Anti Social Media | Middle Ground

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