"Companies ought to be regulated better to curb those and other damages. They should also amend their platforms to help users regain control over their habits — say, by allowing users to toggle features such as likes on and off, hide the repost button, or make scrolling finite."
Congressional Republicans Push Bills That Would Block Kids Access To Content For Ideological Reasons
Should parents have a right to monitor and control which sites and apps their kids use? Today, parents do have that legal right under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The 1998…
*Help manage* their use 😩
If you can’t access the article, send me a DM!
We (myself and Wendy Wood) have one more piece to share on our @springernature.com Scientific Reports paper, this time via the Washington Post!
We also discuss how social media users can use habit science to help their use (and how companies should help!).
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
A DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. @evystadium.bsky.social reports.
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
I have a piece out in @theguardian.com today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back with everything we have
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
Table 1 A non-comprehensive list of different (not mutually exclusive) meanings of the word Al, including Al as idea, Al as a type of system, Al as a field of study, and Al as institution(al unit).
The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) means many things to many people (see Table 1). (...) One meaning of ‘AI’ that seems often forgotten these days is one that played a crucial role in the birth of cognitive science as an interdiscipline in the 1970s and ’80s." 2/n
Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.
In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.
CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them:
— NO to KOSA
— NO to Section 230 reform
— NO to the SCREEN Act
— NO to the App Store Accountability Act
—NO age verification laws
—NO to digital ID systems
Was great to work with a big team of talented researchers on this paper! And to help apply some interesting network science methods to smartphone sensing data + surveys 😁
🚨New pre-print🚨
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What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?
This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account
A landmark lawsuit against Google and Meta went to trial this week. The jury’s verdict will influence the outcome of thousands of similar cases across the country. @madlinbmek.bsky.social on what it all means: on-the-media.visitlink.me/IYc6S1
Had a brief cameo to discuss my research in this episode about the social media addiction trials! Really good listen for those interested in these cases in the US…
We absolutely MUST adopt relegation in American sports. How else can we compete with these levels of haters on a global scale?
In her latest column, @bakerdphd.bsky.social looks at the history of AAU regarding campus free speech. If they took a stance on many key issues today, some status-obsessed public universities would face very difficult membership decisions.
Research finds that people overestimate how many social media users post harmful content--which makes us think the world is worse than it really is.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Appreciate this thread--was curious whether the data backed up that narrative and the anecdotal evidence I'd seen from users across social media. Also 100% agree that more transparency is crucial to getting a complete picture of how the ownership change is/isn't impacting the site.
Wrote about a recent study that suggested calling it "social media addiction" can do more harm than social media itself, in that it takes agency away from people, and makes it more difficult to help people who actually have a problem with not being able to put down social media.
Longtime fan of your work, Mike! Thanks a lot for covering our study, this is a really great summary and analysis of our findings!
As a longtime follower, it’s really cool to see my work covered here! Thank you 🙏🏻
Florida took another step Thursday toward banning all its public universities from hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas. The public comment period on the proposal will last two weeks:
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
There was a paper recently advocating for friction in certain domains…this also seems like a case where more friction would be beneficial…
"Haidt’s claims of inherent harm are not well-founded, and the policy proposals to ban kids entirely from social media are a bad idea. For older teenage boys, having no social media was associated with *worse* outcomes than having too much of it"
For anyone new to the idea that Alt National Parks Service is a grift, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social made a nice little primer about the hijacking of resistance politics by hucksters and charlatans
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"Contemporary fascism is simply neoliberalism with its multicultural mask off. We have been heading in this direction since the latter half of the 20th century, at least."
Was fun to speak with @apnews.com's Kaitlyn Huamani about anti-doomscrolling interventions and my work on social media addiction / habits! Full article here:
apnews.com/article/soci...
