by Tremane Barr | Jun 23, 2024 | Latest News, Mobile Communication Technologies, Social Media
In this episode, my guest is Dr. Jonathan Haidt, PhD, professor of social psychology at New York University and bestselling author on how technology and culture impact the psychology and health of kids, teens, and adults. We discuss the dramatic rise of suicide,...
by Tremane Barr | Oct 18, 2022 | Latest News, Social Media
ast week, my six- and three-year-olds kept singing some irritating song with a repeated “diggity-dog” and butt wiggle in it. Was that from school? I asked. Oh no, from something on the iPad. Somehow, they’d navigated there from another app I’d approved....
by Tremane Barr | Oct 2, 2022 | Latest News, Mobile Communication Technologies, Social Media
From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices are driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology’s damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates―and...
by Tremane Barr | Oct 2, 2022 | Latest News, Social Media
Suzie* was a typical 22-year-old recent college grad from the Midwest who was admitted into my mental health clinic in Austin with a variety of increasingly common psychiatric disorders: depression, self-harm (cutting her arms) and a Borderline Personality Disorder...
by Tremane Barr | May 30, 2021 | Mobile Communication Technologies, Popular News Media Articles, Social Media
“I feel tremendous guilt,” admitted Chamath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of User Growth at Facebook, to an audience of Stanford students. He was responding to a question about his involvement in exploiting consumer behavior. “The short-term, dopamine-driven...
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