Telefonerna har förändrat hur vi lever och hur vi tänker. Hur påverkas samhället och våra hjärnor av den nya tekniken?

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Inget annat tekniskt genombrott har fått så stort genomslag så snabbt som dagens smartphones. På kort tid har de påverkat nästan alla aspekter av våra dagliga liv. Men hur? Vad säger forskningen om mobilernas inverkan på vårt sätt att tänka, på vårt minne, vår uppmärksamhet, våra relationer och vår självbild?

Och vad händer egentligen med samhället när vi flyttar vår uppmärksamhet från världen runt omkring oss till apparna i våra mobiler?

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Fanny Hedenmo

Medverkande

• Nicholas Carr - författare

• Luke Fernandez - författare och docent vid Weber School of Computing

• Susan Matt - författare och professor i historia vid Weber State University

• Cory Doctorow - författare och tech-journalist

Böcker

• Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid - Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter av Luke Fernandez och Susan Matt (2020)

• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Updated Edition - av Nicholas Carr (2020)

Artiklar

• Smartphones and attention, curse or blessing? - A review on the effects of smartphone usage on attention, inhibition, and working memory - Liebherr et. al. (Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2020)

• Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen - Johann Hari (The Guardian, 2022)

• Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence. - Jonathan Haidt (After Babel, 2023)

• Negative impact of social media affects girls and boys at different ages (University of Oxford, 2022)

• Media Multitasking Disrupts Memory, Even in Young Adults - Bret Stetka (Scientific American, 2020)

• Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity - Shirin Ghaffary (Vox, 2021)

• TikTok Brain Explained: Why Some Kids Seem Hooked on Social Video Feeds - JULIE JARGON (WSJ, 2022)

• Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom - new research - University of Bath (2022)

• Social media break improves mental health – new study - University of Bath (2022)

• Study shows habitual checking of social media may impact young adolescents’ brain development - UNC-Chapel Hill (2023)

• Accelerating dynamics of collective attention - Lorenz-Spreen et. al. (Nature, 2019)

• Problematic Smartphone Use Leads to Behavioral and Cognitive Self-Control Deficits - Fabio et. al. (Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022)

• Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One. - Casey Schwartz (New York Times, 2019)

• How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains - Stanislas Dehaene (Lithub, 2020)

• Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time - Avalle et. al. (Nature, 2024)

• How to Fix Twitter—And All of Social Media - Jaron Lainer (The Atlantic, 2022)

• Brain Games are Bogus - Gareth Cook (The New Yorker, 2013)

• I’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die. I’m more hopeful than ever - Cory Doctorow (The Guardian, 2022)

• Why are smartphones disruptive? An empirical study of smartphone use in real-life contexts - Heitmayer et. al. (Computers in Human Behavior, 2021)

• Mobilen i sängen skapar sömnproblem - Anna Gullers (KTH, 2019)

• We spent nearly 5 hours a day on our mobile devices in 2021 - Allison Murray (ZDnet, 2022)

• Personal significance is encoded automatically by the human brain: an event-related potential study with ringtones - Roye et. al. (EJN, 2007)

• Phone addiction not driven by notifications, study finds - Cristina Criddle (BBC, 2020)

• Does Silencing Notifications Curb Compulsive Phone Use? - Gwendolyn Seidman (Psychology Today, 2022)

• Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity - Ward et. al. (Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2017)

• Daydreaming is good: It means you're smart (Science Daily, 2017)

• Media Multitasking and Cognitive, Psychological, Neural, and Learning Differences - Uncapher et. al. (Pediatrics, 2017)

• Media usage diminishes memory for experiences - Tamir et. al. (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2018)

• What smartphone photography is doing to our memories - Brian Resnick (Vox, 2018)

• Technology may change cognition without necessarily harming it - Cecutti et. al. (Nature Human Behaviour, 2021)

• Did you look that up? How retrieving from smartphones affects memory for source - Kristy Hamilton (Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022)

• Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’ - Rebecca Seal (The Guardian, 2022)

• Mobile phones: The effect of its presence on learning and memory - Tanil et. al. (PLoS One, 2020)

• The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance - Skowronek et. al. (Scientific Reports, 2023)

• Mobile phone use for 5 minutes can cause significant memory impairment in humans - Kalafatakis et. al. (Hell J Nucl Med, 2017)

• When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media - Bursztyn et. al. (University of Chicago, 2023)

• A Subreddit for Dumbphones Is the Smartest Place Online - Aaron Gordon (Wired, 2024)

• The Reaction Economy - William Davies (LRB, 2023)

• TikTok use and psychosocial factors among adolescents: Comparisons of non-users, moderate users, and addictive users - Chao et. al. (Psychiatry Res, 2023)

• Who Should Regulate Online Speech? - David Cole (NYROB, 2024)

• The impact of the digital revolution on human brain and behavior: where do we stand? - Martin Korte (Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2020)

• On Selfies - Julian Stallabrass (LRB, 2014)

• Always On - Stephanie Burt (LRB, 2010)

• We Are Hopelessly Hooked - Jacob Weisberg (NYROB, 2016)

• “Microincentives and Enshittification” - Cory Doctorow (Medium, 2023)

• Let the Platforms Burn - Cory Doctorow (Medium, 2023)

• “How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok” - Cory Doctorow (Medium, 2023)

• “Twiddler” - Cory Doctorow (Medium, 2023)

• The Enshittification of TikTok - Cory Doctorow (Wired, 2023)

• How to Fix Social Media - Nicholas Carr (The New Atlantis, 2021)

• How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds - Nicholas Carr (WSJ, 2017)

• Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction - Madeleine Bunting (NYROB, 2018)

• The Autocracy App - Jacob Weisberg (NYROB, 2018)

• Apologize Later - Sue Halpern (NYROB, 2019)

• Telecom Rehab - Andrew O'Hagan (LRB, 2007)

• Google Street View - John Lanchester (LRB, 2009)

• You are the product - John Lanchester (LRB, 2017)

• Scrolling - Gavin Francis (NYROB, 2021)

• To monopolise our ears - Daniel Cohen (LRB, 2023)

• The Accidental Internet Scholar - Ethan Zuckerman (NYROB, 2022)

• Could Internet Culture Be Different? - Ethan Zuckerman (NYROB, 2022)

• ‘Social Media Reward Bad Behavior’ - Claudia Dreifus (NYROB, 2020)

• Who am I prepared to kill? - William Davies (LRB, 2020)

• Internet speak - Lauren Oyler (LRB, 2020)

• Can Liberal Democracy Survive Social Media? - Yascha Mounk (NYROB, 2018)

• Cambridge Analytica - William Davies (LRB, 2018)

• How Your Data Are Being Deeply Mined - Alice E. Marwick (NYROB, 2014)

• Go Directly to Facebook - Margaret Shea (NYROB, 2016)

• ‘Hot’ Sex & Young Girls - Zoë Heller (NYROB, 2016)

• Facebook Break-Ups - Thomas Jones (LRB, 2010)

• The Last Days of eBay - Thomas Jones (LRB, 2008)

• The Internet: For Better or for Worse - Steve Coll (NYROB, 2011)

• Are We Puppets in a Wired World? - Sue Halpern (NYROB, 2013)

• Digital Consumer Trends 2023 (Deloitte)

• The New Normal: Phone Use is Up Nearly 4-Fold Since 2019 (Asurion)

Podcasts och andra ljud

• Are You Paying Attention? (BBC Radio 3, 2019)

• Put Your Phone Down (BBC Radio 4, 2023)

• Hard Fork - Jonathan Haidt, Smartphones and Children (New York Times, 2024)

• Multitasking Is a Myth, and to Attempt It Comes at a Neurobiological Cost (Big Think)

• Can You Really Multitask? (SciShow Psych)

• A Conversation with Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, Facebook, and the Parker Foundation (Milken Institute)

Musik

• Cliff Martinez - Drizzled him good

• Podington Bear - Vibe Drive

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Buon Giorno

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Kid Loco - Theme from The Graffiti Artist

• Michael Andrews - Peter and Sylvie

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Estranged

• Cliff Martinez - Will She Come Back?

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Odd

• Vince Pope - Fake

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Breakmaster Cylinder - Catbus Catbus Where Have You Been?

• Podington Bear - Cm

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells

• Cliff Martinez - Dearest John

• Podington Bear - Vibe Drive

• Cliff Martinez - The Birds Are Doing That

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Odd

• Martin D Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• Jon Brion - Cubes

• Vince Pope - A New Home

• Kim Neundorf - Lacero Espressivo

• Jon Brion - Strange Bath

• Jon Brion - Punch Drunk Melody

• Michael Andrews - Peter and Sylvie

• Podington Bear - Dry Air

• Podington Bear - Vibe Drive

• Cliff Martinez - I Got Time

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Problem After Problem

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Too Too

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Pianissimo

• Breakmaster Cylinder - Rosie Makes Breakfast

• Hans Zimmer - Afraid of Time

• Vince Pope - A New Home

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• Calexico - Untitled III - Remix by Two Lone Swordsmen

• Mac Quayle - 1.0_3-fucksociety.mp3

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public

• Burial - In McDonalds

• Helios - Latest Lost

• Vince Pope - Fake

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Marcus Bagala - Belle Ones

• Sebadoh - Spoiled

• Gordon Spicer Band - Telephone Bore