To me the qualitative difference is that we are talking about a whole media. Not the content itself, like in movies.

Maybe that’s also where Eikos sense of accepting defeat comes from. For movies we declare certain content as off limits. For social media it’s legislative capitulation, no nuance

Auch interessant ist Haidts Kommunikation an üblichen wissenschaftlichen Kanälen vorbei. Bücher, GoogleDocs, Blogposts und Tedtalks statt peer-reviewte Artikel. Interessanter Artikel dazu: archive.is/EPrii

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

Eher nur eindeutig wenn man selektiv zitiert wie Haidt es gerne tut. Verkauft dann aber gut Bücher. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎙️Screen Sense - new podcast with me and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social, is launching next week! Two psychologists (and dads) talking honestly about what it means to raise a family in a screen-filled world - with science, real stories and zero guilt. Launching 13th June. screensensepodcast.substack.com

We’re back to the “hundreds of psychological studies cannot all be wrong, educate yourself”-stage of discourse.

I recommend that onlookers to this discourse pick some of the cited studies & see how compelling they find them, wrt causal identification & strength of statistical evidence.>

But their origin does not change that they are underspecified. They allow for many interpretations and no way of knowing what people agreed to.

Some positive aspects: increase in mental health, social connectedness, support, coping, exploration of self and interests, access to information

The use of „can“ in formulating the causal claims makes it quite hard to disagree. Smartphones can impair mental health, but the actual debate is whether they do so more than not. Esp. since the majority of experts actually think effects are context dependent

A shame no positive effects are asked..

The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…

Take the time to read this important analysis. We are in exactly the situation that laws, Constitutin and basic common sense should prevent. And yet.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

There's a word for people who prefer phones to meeting friends: addicts Martha Gill Ditching hanging out for isolated scrolling on our sofas is a dangerous habit that warrants help on a par with gambling Guardian article by Martha Gill

Counterpoint: No, there isn't

But sure, let's randomly assign incredibly loaded clinical diagnoses onto individuals who may have many valid reasons for not wanting to engage in-person with people, particularly ones who make damning evidence-free judgements of others and share them in a newspaper

The Hare-Brained Generation: Teen mental health crisis or lacklustre record keeping? In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It's a compelling thesis, widely discussed in the media, mostly accepted by my students and...

New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success.
www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...

Thanks Andy! In @theatlantic.bsky.social I describe why the panic over smartphones is more likely to distract from than solve the problems that young people are facing today. Gift link is below:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Incredible! Could also work well for counseling

A Boston psychiatrist weighs in on the Mass. TikTok lawsuit and digital wellness The co-founder of Boston Children's Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders, Dr. Michael Tsappis joins Radio Boston to talk about digital wellness.

Despite the dominant narrative, I really can't stress this enough. Whether we're talking about yourself or your kids:

YOU

ARE

NOT

*ADDICTED*

TO

YOUR

PHONE!

And we need to stop saying otherwise

www.wbur.org/radiobo...
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