Mind the App

Mind the App

By Usama WaheedEducation
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Mind the App episodes

  • Ep 21: Surveys

    0:00 Housekeeping

    4:12 Overview (by Urooj)
    18:30 Why we're doing this
    20:11 Characteristics of a survey
    21:57 Why surveys (+ good, fast & cheap)
    27:34 Problems with survey research
    30:28 When to use surveys
    32:40 Survey design: Process
    34:44 Survey design: Questions before a survey
    35:15 Survey design: Types of questions
    41:19 Survey design: Consider motivations and context
    42:40 Errors in surveys: Overview
    44:16 Errors in surveys: Social desirability
    48:33 Errors in surveys: Double barreled questions/answers
    50:08 Errors in surveys: Leading questions
    58:10 Errors in surveys: Loaded questions/Framing
    1:00:39 Errors in surveys: Priming
    1:07:06 Errors in surveys: Jargon/slang
    1:08:36 Errors in surveys: Mutual exclusion and collective exhaustion
    1:16:53 Errors in surveys: Excessive complexity
    1:21:12 Errors in surveys: Faulty presupposition
    1:22:27 Errors in surveys: Vagueness
    1:24:27 Errors in surveys: False inference
    1:27:43 Errors in surveys: Memory
    1:30:13 Errors in surveys: Other issues
    1:31:14 Good practices
    1:33:13 Class discussion
    1:35:19 Examples of bad surveys

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    1 hr 47 min
  • Ep 20: TikTok

    0:00 Housekeeping

    5:34 Overview
    7:37 Tiktok: Signup
    14:44 Tiktok: Interface overview
    42:38 Mariyam - the power of tiktok
    45:55 Tiktok in Pakistan

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    1 hr 28 min
  • Ep 19 Twitter and social media activism

    0:00 Discussion

    4:30 What is moral outrage
    10:50 Responses
    14:33 Outcomes
    20:50 Evolutionary angle
    24:22 Moral and emotional content
    27:19 Token support
    34:15 Why do we tweet?
    37:40 Better interaction: Being neutral
    39:22 Better interactions: humanizing the opposition
    49:15 Better interactions: Ingroups and outgroups
    1:00:05 Better interactions: individualizing people
    1:01:27 Better interactions: Being private
    1:06:25 Examples
    1:10:07 Twitter's design, conclusion
    1:12:38 Leena's examples

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    1 hr 24 min
  • Ep 18: Netflix and binge-watching

    0:00 Housekeeping: important dates and more

    7:50 Reciprocity principle
    13:50 Cocktail party effect
    18:54 Idleness aversion
    23:33 Hook model
    29:00 Netflix demo
    36:30 Discussion on demo
    48:11 Cliffhangers

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    52 min
  • Ep 17: Instagram and the self

    .0:00 Housekeeping: feedback, logistics

    8:00 Summary of reading
    22:11 Identity-oriented characteristics: Edited self-presentation
    34:00 Identity-oriented characteristics: Symbolic consumption
    40:02 Identity-oriented characteristics: Social spaces
    47:54 Motivations to share photos: Audience feedback
    1:02:19 Motivations to share photos: Memory manufacturing
    1:09:45 Motivations to share photos: Relational reassurance
    1:12:23 Motivations to share photos: Bounded rebellion
    1:19:52 Instagram exploration: Minhal
    1:26:24 Instagram exploration: Aleena
    1:33:33 Class discussion

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    1 hr 40 min
  • Ep 16: Dramaturgy and the self

    0:00 Housekeeping: planning dates, give feedback

    19:52 What is the self?
    36:13 How do we form the self?
    40:54 Discussion: What kind of identities are you performing?
    46:08 Dramaturgical theory
    58:38 Self & Social Media
    1:10:30 Impression management
    1:18:37 Reflection on identity formation
    1:20:43 Class discussion

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    1 hr 31 min
  • Ep 14: Tinder and online relationships

    0:00 Housekeeping: Birthdays, cake, project

    23:13 Podcast discussion
    36:03 Arguments for online dating
    52:31 Discussion: Paradox of choice & flo-rida effect
    1:13:21 Discussion: Clips from swiped (documentary)
    1:22:04 (Tinder and) the self
    1:25:36 Dating/Rishtas in Pakistan

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    1 hr 41 min
  • Ep 13: Choices and decision making

    0:00 Housekeeping: Final project, course timeline, bts

    16:56 Less is more: Jam study and more
    30:36 Less is more: Uncle Barry
    39:48 More is more: Single-choice aversion
    43:42 More is more: Criticisms of less is more
    48:17 Discussion: Which one is it?
    1:00:47 Maximizing vs satisficing
    1:11:58 Examples
    1:20:50 What should we do?
    1:27:35 Discussion on class

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    1 hr 39 min
  • Ep 12: Online shopping and consumption

    0:00 Housekeeping: First project deliverable, class logo, next guest lecture

    10:33 Lecture overview
    11:00 Article
    32:24 Individual factors
    38:42 Social factors
    42:37 Institutional factors
    47:44 Biases: Endowment effect
    54:53 Biases: Loss aversion
    1:13:21 Biases: Decoy effect
    1:20:40 Biases: Scarcity
    1:23:37 Biases: Mere exposure
    1:28:40 Reviews
    1:30:45 Class discussion

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    1 hr 40 min
  • Ep 11: Into to research methods

    0:00 Housekeeping

    4:08 Research methods: Academia vs Industry
    6:07 Academia
    9:58 Industry
    14:38 Academic methods
    19:10 Industry methods
    28:05 Industry methods: Why?
    44:54 Schemas & mental models examples
    54:53 Ethnographies
    1:03:33 Other methods: Diary study, surveys, and more
    1:10:18 Evil final project
    1:15:50 Recitations and BTS
    1:20:29 Class discussion (

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    1 hr 36 min

About Mind the App

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Welcome! Mind the App: The Psychology of Technology, the Internet, and Social Media is a very, very long name for a podcast that's not really a podcast.