1. The document discusses the effects of social media and technology on mental health and well-being. Experts note that constant phone use and social media can increase loneliness, depression, anxiety, and sleep issues in teens and young adults. 2. Studies show that platforms like Instagram have the most negative impacts on mental health, while YouTube tends to be more positive. Constant notifications and alerts encourage prolonged and repeated screen time that takes away from real social interaction. 3. Algorithms on social media platforms are designed to capture attention by varying rewards that can make the services addictive. Data collected is also used to infer personal details, target ads, and may have been implicated in spreading misinformation. Moderation is

1. Connected
but ALONE
April 30, 2018

2. What Are
The Effects
of our
Social Media habits ?

3. What is your role/job title in education?
What’s Your Role ?

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5. 1. the Evolution of Media
2. Review of the Quest for Attention
3. Impacts on our Well Being
4. What the Research Says
5. Next steps
Tonight’s Program

6. Radio was
a Connector

7. a Family
Experience

9. Remember the
ONe Screen Family?

10. That time +105 Million
watched Together

11. Do you remember
Who Shot JR?

12. in 1977
Fonzi Jumped…

14. Evel Knievel

15. what are your enduring
memories of a MEDIA EVENT,
experienced as a community?

16. On Demand consumers

17. What is your role/job title in education?
What Challenges do you face
with Mobile Technology ?

18. DANGERS…
Increased
Procrastination
Effects of Phone Access

19. Byron
Reeves
Media Psychologist
Stanford University
"To view three hours of content, on average, I am
turning that phone on and off 300 times a day…”
"If you put software on laptop computers and
smartphones to measure how long they spent with
any given segment of life that they intend to do --
how long they wrote their paper, how long they
watch a news story -- it's about ten seconds."

20. Now Back to our Regularly
Scheduled Program

21. “If you want to maximize addictiveness, all tech
designers need to do is link a user’s action (like
pulling a lever) with a variable reward. You pull a lever
and immediately receive either an enticing reward
(a match, a prize!) or nothing. Addictiveness is
maximized when the rate of reward is most variable.”
Tristan
Harris
Founder Centre for Humane Technology
Formerly of Apple, Wikia, Apture, Google

22. “
Lonely queries
“Did I just get an alert!”
“What’s under this red notification?”
“Let me refresh…”
“Who liked my stuff?”
“Do people agree with me?”

23. Justin
Rosenstein
Co-Founder of Asana
Co-creator of the Like Button (Facebook)
I think it's very dangerous right now to have a business model in which
the way that these companies make money is by selling people's
attention to advertisers… Regardless of whether they have good or bad
intentions, the financial incentives just lean you more and more toward
trying to get people to stare at their phones.

24. Demographic
Marketing
Demographic
Marketing

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Pricing ? !
Purchase
Habits

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Pricing ? !
Purchase
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Pricing ? !
Purchase
Habits
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Pricing ? !
Purchase
Habits
Device
Browsing
History
Privacy
Settings

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Pricing ? !
Location
Purchase
Habits
Device
Browsing
History
Privacy
Settings

31. Differentiated
Pricing ? !
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Location
Purchase
Habits
Device
Browsing
History
Privacy
Settings

32. “Personal assistants are artificial
intelligences… they’re supposed to
wake us up in the morning and guide
us through our day. The role that
machines play, is to learn our habits,
to anticipate them, to alleviate us
of the painful necessity of making
choices over the course of the day.”
Franklin
Foer
Author, World without mind

33. “The very nature of us a species
is transformed.”
“We’re not far from the day when these
devices will be implanted in our minds
they’ll be creating the virtual realities
that we’re going to inhabit.”
Franklin
Foer
Author, World without mind

34. Centre for
Humane Technology

35. DANGERS…
Increased
Stress
Effects of Phone Access

36. Clive
Thompson
Author, Smarter than you think
“Increased awareness of what’s going on in the
world around us… is not necessarily great
for a teenager”

37. Centre for
Humane Technology

38. DANGERS…
Fear of
Missing Out
Effects of Phone Access

39. “Fake brittle popularity leaves you more vacant and empty.”
Chamath
PaliHapitiya
Venture Capitalist
Formerly Facebook Coder

40. “You might be more aware of what everybody is
doing, but that doesn’t mean that you feel a true close
emotional connection with them that is crucial for
mental health”
Jean
Twenge
Professor of Psychology
San Diego State University

42. "What becomes important to us is the next new thing that comes
along in a matter of seconds; that's what grabs our attention. And
not only do we begin to ignore the need to think deeply and quietly
and contemplatively about things, but we begin to see that as a
waste of time, because it stops you from grabbing the next new bit
of information.”
Nicholas
Carr
Author, Is google making us stoopid
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us

43. Nicholas
Carr
Author, Is google making us stoopid
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us
What do you get next ?

44. Discover What Your
Friends are up to ?
Nicholas
Carr
Author, Is google making us stoopid
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us
What do you get next ?

45. Algorithms decide what will keep
you scrolling and clicking !
Nicholas
Carr
Author, Is google making us stoopid
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains
The Glass Cage: How our computers are changing us
What do you get next ?

46. Centre for
Humane Technology

47. “When teens spend so much time on screens (6-8 hours a
day), that crowds out things that are better for mental health:
like spending time with friends in person, and sleeping.”
Jean
Twenge
Professor of Psychology
San Diego State University

48. Jean
Twenge
Professor of Psychology
San Diego State University

49. DANGERS…
Reduced Commitment
to Conversations
Effects of Phone Access

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53. John
McWHorter
Linguist, Columbia University
“What texting is, despite the fact that it involves the brute
mechanics of something that we call writing, is fingered speech.
That's what texting is. Now we can write the way we talk.”

54. Centre for
Humane Technology

55. "Our research shows that capturing digital
behavior patterns, such as tweets, Facebook
likes or web browser logs, is sufficient to be able
to build up a detailed picture of an individual's
personality, intelligence or political leanings.
These types of Big Data analysis do not require
any active participation on the part of the data
subjects."
Michael
Kosinski
Psychometrics Expert
Stanford University

59. Emotional Contagion
Facebook
Data

60. Fake news?!
Facebook
Data
Emotional Contagion

61. Emotional Contagion
Fake news?!
Extremist
Groups?!
Facebook
Data

62. Justin
Rosenstein
Co-Founder of Asana
Co-creator of the Like Button (Facebook)
“There are a lot of concerns that I have about [how] technology will
continue to erode our attention span, make it harder for us to focus on
important social issues, make it harder for us to think clearly, which is
critical to having a functioning democracy”

63. “Right at the time when smart phones became popular (2012)…
that’s exactly when loneliness among teens started to spike;
symptoms of depression, suicide related outcomes, happiness
started to go down, life satisfaction started to go down, right at that
time when they were spending a lot more time on their phones and a
lot less time with one another in person.”
Jean
Twenge
Professor of Psychology
San Diego State University

64. "Anything that's done with a screen: texting, social media, TV, online,
computer games – all of those are correlated with lower happiness,"
Jean
Twenge
Professor of Psychology
San Diego State University

65. Jean
Twenge
Professor of Psychology
San Diego State University

66. The researchers surveyed almost 1,500 teens and young people aged 14 to
24 from across the U.K. to score how each of the social media platforms
they use impacts 14 specific factors related to their health and well-being.
Including: depression, body image, loneliness, sleep, self-expression, self-
identity, community building, and bullying, among others.
1. YouTube (most positive)
2.Twitter
3.Facebook
4. Snapchat
5.Instagram (most negative)
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Correlating Social Media
and Mental Health

67. The researchers surveyed almost 1,500 teens and young people aged 14 to
24 from across the U.K. to score how each of the social media platforms
they use impacts 14 specific factors related to their health and well-being.
Including: depression, body image, loneliness, sleep, self-expression, self-
identity, community building, and bullying, among others.
1. YouTube (most positive)
2.Twitter
3.Facebook
4. Snapchat
5.Instagram (most negative)
+
-
Correlating Social Media
and Mental Health

68. The researchers surveyed almost 1,500 teens and young people aged 14 to
24 from across the U.K. to score how each of the social media platforms
they use impacts 14 specific factors related to their health and well-being.
Including: depression, body image, loneliness, sleep, self-expression, self-
identity, community building, and bullying, among others.
1. YouTube (most positive)
2. Twitter
3. Facebook
4. Snapchat
5. Instagram (most negative)
+
-
Correlating Social Media
and Mental Health

69. OECD Data

70. OECD Data

72. DANGERS…
Disrupted
Sleep
Effects of Phone Access

74. Face Down Purse/Bag/Pocket other room

79. The Quest
for Attention
Part 1
April 9, 2018

80. Connected
but ALONE
Part 2
April 30, 2018

81. Finding
Balance
Part 3
May 14, 2018

83. Learn More
Emotional Contagion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_contagion
FOMO, Stress and Sleeplessness: are smartphones bad for students?
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/mar/08/children-mobile-phone-distraction-study-
school
Is Technology Saving Us, or Enslaving Us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBRLMoL_vTQ&feature=youtu.be
Marketplace: Privacy and Cell Phone Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx1AUupLn2w
FOMO: How the Fear of Missing Out Drives Social Media Addiction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/31942696

84. Learn Still More
This Social Media Site Ranked Worst for Mental Health
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/instagram-snapchat-social-media-worst-for-mental-health/
Your Brain on Digital Technology (CBC Radio, Ideas Episode March 5, 2019)
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/your-brain-on-digital-technology-1.4562541
Overload: How Technology is Brining Us Too Much Information
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overload-how-technology-is-bringing-us-too-much-information/
6 Reasons to Put Your Phone Away
https://blog.innerdrive.co.uk/6-reasons-to-put-your-phone-away
Infomagical
https://project.wnyc.org/infomagical/
Old Time Radio downloads
https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio?&sort=-downloads

85. Creative Commons
What every
CREATOR
needs to know.
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Night Owl City
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Laguna Blanca
Punch Magazine
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CEBIT
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