We're Chained to Our Phones and It's Scarier Than We Think

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hi!! i'm shaniya but i use the moniker 'shanspeare' on youtube. i'm 23, use they/them pronouns, and i love talking about everything pop culture :)
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videos mentioned in this episode:
- Canceling by Contrapoints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8&t=4694s
- How Cancel Culture Replaces Accountability with Anger & Trauma by Jessie Gender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD9Q4JH5B_A&t=774s
- Social media is the perfect place for a weak, insecure, projecting, narcissist by lipgloss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_Mh6IXW1c
- The Anti-Tech Movement is Back by Alice Capelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuKLpIt4I1U
Misunderstanding dopamine: Why the language of addiction matters by Cyrus McCandless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqXmOb_fuN4
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Hawes, William. “The Rise of the Terminally Online: Digital Subjectivity and Simulation of the Social.” Medium, https://wilhawes.medium.com/the-rise-of-the-terminally-online-digital-subjectivity-and-simulation-of-the-social-465545aa59eb
Miller, Clair Cain. “Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill.” New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/technology/25disable.html?searchResultPosition=3
Al-Heeti, Abrar. “'Chronically online': What the phrase means, and some examples.” CNet, https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/chronically-online-what-the-phrase-means-and-some-examples/
Cox, Anna. “You’re Not Woke, You’re Just Chronically Online.” Heritage Herald, https://heritageherald.com/2022/03/24/youre-not-woke-youre-just-chronically-online/
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Haynes, Trevor. “Dopamine, Smartphones, & You: A Battle for Your Time.” SITN, https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/
MacGuineas, Maya. “Capitalism’s Addiction Problem.” The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/capitalisms-addiction-problem/606769/
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Lee, E. Bun. “Too Much Information: Heavy Smartphone and Facebook Utilization by African American Young Adults.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2015, pp. 44–61. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24572928. Accessed 30 Jun. 2022.
Zhuo, Julie. “Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt.” The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/opinion/30zhuo.html
McCandless, Cyrus H. “Misunderstanding Dopamine: Why the Language of Addiction Matters.” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqXmOb_fuN4

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