Podcast #32: Josh Golin on Marketing to Kids

Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.

By Mo Lotman | June 19, 2019 | Advertising, Community, Culture, Education, Ethics, Family, Law, Media, Podcasts, Privacy, Psychology | Activism, Advertising, Alexa, Amazon, Baby Einstein, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Children, Citizenship, Commercials, Community, Consumerism, Critical Thinking, Digital Nanny, Disney, Echo Dot for Kids, Ed-Tech, Edward Markey, Environment, Fast Food, Hello Barbie, Internet, iPads, Josh Hawley, Marketing, Mattel, Movement Building, Obesity, Pornography, Schools, Scree-Free Week, Screen Time Action Network, Screens, Smartphones, surveillance, Technology in Schools, TV, Violence, YouTube

Q&A with David Sax, Author of The Revenge of Analog

Our own Art Keller chats with author David Sax about the themes in his book The Revenge of Analog.

By Art Keller | July 25, 2018 | Culture, Journalism, Media, Psychology, Publishing, Society, Well-Being | Advertising, Analog, Board Games, Books, Cameras, CDs, Choice, David Sax, Digital Technology, eBooks, Education, Embodiment, Film, Food Service, Gaming Culture, iPads, Magazines, Newspapers, Physicality, Presence, Print Media, Records, Smartphones, Social Disconnection, Tangible, The Paradox of Choice, Third Space, vinyl, Virtual Reality

Podcast #6: Kentaro Toyama on the Fallacies of Tech in Development

Kentaro Toyama is Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan and the author of the book Geek Heresy. After spending five years in India attempting to deploy technology to aid international development, he came back disillusioned. He chats with the Technoskeptic about his experience there and in years of teaching that gave him an understanding of how technology often exacerbates, rather than levels, underlying disparities.

By Mo Lotman | October 26, 2016 | Economics, Education, Podcasts, Society | Buddhism, Community Development, Discernment, Disparity, Distraction, Happiness, Inequality, Intention, International Development, iPads, Microsoft, Microsoft Research India, Self-Discipline, Structural Change, Wealth, Wisdom

An Apple® a Day Keeps Attention Away

From kindergarten to college, the US education system is investing more and more into putting iPads, e-readers, interactive whiteboards, and [...]

By Abigail Patrick | April 20, 2016 | Education, Psychology | Attention Span, Classroom, Communication, Creativity, E-books, Facebook, iPads, Reading, Social Interaction, Social Media