drowning in entertainment: the age of distraction

in our visual-audio society, our main method of communication are images and videos. this has greatly affected our attention span, the purpose of news, and how we interact with information and knowledge. changing the form of a medium changes everything.

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SOURCES:
“Neil Postman Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death Part I, Dec. 1985.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRabb6_Gr2Y
“Nicholas Carr: The Shallows – What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt_NwowMTcg
Odell, Jenny. 2019. “The Case for Nothing.” In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.
Postman, Neil. 1985. Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Postman, Neil. 1998. “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change.”
Postman, Neil. 1990. “Informing Ourselves to Death.”

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Social Media Is Worse For You Than You Thought

Social media is worse for you than you thought. In this video, Professor and Best Selling Author Cal Newport explains why social media is ruining lives and what you can do about it.
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0:00 Social media is ruining our lives & mental health
0:20 The problems with social media (social media addiction)
0:30 Social snacking
0:51 Social comparison
1:30 Why social media keeps getting more addicting every year
2:30 Proof that social media causes mental health issues for teenagers
4:20 The BEST way to overcome your social media addiction!
5:47 Another big problem with social media
8:16 Digital minimalism instead of digital detox

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Cal Newport is an American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. Newport is the author of seven books, including, most recently, “Deep Work,” “Digital Minimalism,” and “A World Without Email.” He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from M.I.T.

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