Sybil Kelly: Marketer, Mother, and Author of “Get the F**ck Off That Screen” Talks About Parenting with Screens
Release Date: 01/08/2019
Center for Humane Technology's David Jay Discusses the Power of Internet Community and the Asexuality Movement
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David Jay is the Chief Mobilization Officer for The Center for Humane Technology in San Francisco. He has worked closely with Tristan Harris and the documentary "The Social Dilemma". David is also the founder of Asexuality.org and he shares his story of using the internet to create a social movement.
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Sara Negrin: A Screen-Loving High-Schooler's Perspective on the Digital Era
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Sara Negrin is a high-school Senior from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sara is an active screen user but is conscious of the many different ways it affects us and our relationships. Sara and I met on an Outward Bound backpacking trip last summer and just happened to start talking one day on the trails about the topic of screen use and how we see phones affecting those around us. Topics Covered: Would you give up your phone for a month? Do you remember life before smartphones? What are some unspoken rules our peers have about social media? Is there a discrepancy between how much time...
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Sybil Kelly: Marketer, Mother, and Author of “Get the F**ck Off That Screen” Talks About Parenting with Screens
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Sybil Kelly is a technology marketer and corporate communications professional, as well as a mother of a 13-year old son. Sybil’s daily struggle to moderate screen time for her son inspired her book “Get the F**k off That Screen,” and she is constantly looking for a balance between the benefits and detriments of the digital world. Topics covered: What prompted Sybil to write “Get the F**k off That Screen”? What strategies have Sybil tried to mediate screens with her 13-year-old son and have they been effective? What advice would Sybil give to other parents who are dealing...
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Olivia June: Hey! VINA's Founder Uses Screens to Maximize Connections!
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(Popular!) Max Stossel: On the Center for Humane Technology and Teen Screen-Time
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Max Stossel is the Head of Education for the , an organization of former tech insiders and CEOs dedicated to aligning technology with humanity’s best interests. Before joining the Center for Humane Technology, Max was a media strategist with an extensive background in social media, spending more time learning the ins and outs of the Facebook algorithm than any human should. He later worked for a social media company where he designed some of the same notification structures to distract us that he now criticizes. - Topics covered: What is the Center for Humane Technology? ...
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Jerry Mander: An Author and Activist's Cautionary Take on our Obsession with Screens
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Jerry Mander is an American activist and author, best known for his 1977 book, . After receiving his M.S. from Columbia, Jerry worked in advertising for many years. He later worked with the noted environmentalist, David Brower, managing the Sierra Club's advertising campaigns, In 1971 he founded the first non-profit advertising agency in the United States, Public Interest Communications. Subsequently, in 1994, he founded the and is currently the program director for MegaTechnology and Globalization at the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Topics explored in this episode: Does...
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Ethan Zuckerman: An MIT Associate Professor Using Media for Social Change
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Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the at MIT, and an Associate Professor of the Practice at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the role of technology in international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. He is the author of Topics explored in this episode: Did Ethan Zuckerman really invent the pop-up ad? (Yes, yes he did!) Does Facebook have more control over where we put our attention than we think? “How to fix facebook before it fixes us” - How Ethan predicted the Facebook crisis. How does Ethan’s...
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(Popular!) Chris Kresser: A Functional and Ancestral Medicine Perspective on Digital Technology
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Chris Kresser is a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, nutrition, and functional and integrative medicine. He is the New York Times bestselling author of two books: and . Chris is the co-founder and co-director at the California Center for Functional Medicine. He is also the creator of the , a globally recognized medical practitioner training program. Topics explored in this episode: How humans evolved without computers and screens and how this has dramatically changed in the last 20 years. Is there an evolutionary mismatch? Hear about Chris’...
info_outlineSybil Kelly is a technology marketer and corporate communications professional, as well as a mother of a 13-year old son. Sybil’s daily struggle to moderate screen time for her son inspired her book “Get the F**k off That Screen,” and she is constantly looking for a balance between the benefits and detriments of the digital world.
Topics covered:
- What prompted Sybil to write “Get the F**k off That Screen”?
- What strategies have Sybil tried to mediate screens with her 13-year-old son and have they been effective?
- What advice would Sybil give to other parents who are dealing with screen-loving children?