25: New Media, Mental Health, & Humane Design. Part 1 - Engaging the Problem

Ever pick up your phone just to check the time, lose 30 minutes, or even hours, and feel like your brain has been hacked? Have you felt a connection between your constant connectivity and increased anxiety and sleeplessness?  Even Mark Zuckerburg knows we have a problem. But, just what is it? We’re mad, but at what or whom? This week we explore the pain points we encounter in our current use of technology and how our psychology is being used against us as developers design for addiction. We name and clarify the problem to help you engage our technological world in more humane ways. www.shemasd.org Score by Wilson Ryland Center for Humane Technology: https://humanetech.com Jean Twinge Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/ Cal Newport's "Digital Minimalism": https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-Noisy/dp/0525536515/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3FCEB8DWI8KIY&keywords;=digital+minimalism&qid;=1581530741&sprefix;=digital+mini%2Caps%2C189&sr;=8-2 Article on Zuckerberg's "Sleep Box": https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/health/mark-zuckerberg-sleep-box-trnd/index.html