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Social & Psychological Effects of Communication Technology

COMM 298 / 398 Fall 2021

Category: Week 10

Kate Brady- TED Talk with Robin Grebing

October 28, 2021 kkb222Week 10

In the TED talk with Robin Grebing, she discusses cell phone addiction. I found this TED talk very interesting. I don’t think any of us realize just how addicted we are to our phones, myself[…]

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10/28 – #LikeMinded – Grayson Begier

October 28, 2021 gbb222Entries

In #LikeMinded, various authors discuss the impact of social media on people’s mental health and how social media can shape users’ depression. The series includes articles that show how users manage their depression with the[…]

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10/28 “#Likeminded: BBC special series about the impact of social media on mental well-being” – Andreas Tsiaras

October 28, 2021 aat222Entries

In 2018, BBC started a column called #LikeMinded to see just how social media has affected people mentally. At the time, there were many questions and comments about how social media was really starting to[…]

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10/28 Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out, too – Cherry

October 28, 2021 xiq222Entries

In “Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out, too”, Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman talked about the effects of this outage and expanded the topic to phone addiction. On October 4, the world experienced[…]

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10/28 “The Relations Among Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction in University Students” – Bridget Hall

October 28, 2021 beh222Entries

In The Relations Among Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction in University Students the authors, Nazir Hawi, and Maya Samaha, research whether there is a correlation between the addictive use of social media, self-esteem,[…]

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Max Fern – Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out, too (10/28)

October 27, 2021 mgf222Entries

In “Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out, too,” CNN reporter Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman discusses Facebook’s brief outage and the psychological effects of social media on digital habits and our ability to[…]

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10/28 Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out too. – Leah Montgomery

October 27, 2021 lmm222Entries

“Facebook went offline this week. Experts say we should log out too.” by Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman discusses the recent outage in which Facebook and its platforms, including Instagram, were unusable, and the ways in which it[…]

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10/28 “Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment” – Deirdre Kelshaw

October 27, 2021 Deirdre KelshawEntries

In “Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment,” the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) argues that technology has introduced a much greater ability to access mental health support through new apps and numbers[…]

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Zach Coriarty 10/27 “The Smartphone Hostage: The Truth behind Our Technology Addictions.”

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 zac222Entries

In Grebing’s TED Talk, she argues that cell phones are meant to be addictive and that our addiction to cell phones is detrimental to our health and social lives. She points out that the reason[…]

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Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment – Alana Bonfiglio 10/28

October 27, 2021 Alana BonfiglioEntries

A report by The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Technology and the Future of Mental Health Treatment, shows how the increased accessibility of mobile devices has changed mental health treatment by creating new ways[…]

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10/28: The Smartphone Hostage – Falyn Goldstein

October 27, 2021 fmg222Entries

The TEDTalk by Robin Grebing was very intriguing and a little scary, as it called out humans’ reality. This talk focused on how humans are addicted to their phones and most of the time they[…]

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10/28: Technology and the future of mental health treatment – Talia Feinberg

October 26, 2021 tbf223Entries

This article discusses the sector of developing technology regarding mental health. This idea is very appealing on the surface because it gives people the opportunity to reach help in a time of crisis (or otherwise)[…]

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10/26 “Google, Democracy and the Truth about Internet Search” – Bridget Hall

October 26, 2021 beh222Entries

In Google, Democracy and the Truth about Internet Search, author Carole Cadwalladr takes a close look at the impact of Google’s autocomplete suggestions on society.  Google’s mission is to “organise the world’s information and make[…]

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Kate Brady- “Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused, and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information.”

October 26, 2021 kkb222Week 10

For class, I read “Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused, and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information.” I thought this article was really interesting, and it highlighted just how many people are feeling totally[…]

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10/26 Snowden – Cherry

October 26, 2021 xiq222Entries

By reading the Edward Snowden interview from Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill as well as watching the short video clip, I gained a lot of information about the privacy issues that people may face. For[…]

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Unpacking “Privacy” for a Networked World – Alana Bonfiglio 10/26

October 26, 2021 Alana BonfiglioEntries

In Unpacking “Privacy” for a Networked World, Leysia Palen and Paul Dourish argue that privacy is a dynamic (changing) process similar to its definition by social psychologist Irwin Altman even before modern technology was created.[…]

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10/26 – Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused, and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information

October 25, 2021 Megan QuigleyEntries

In Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused, and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information, Auxier et. al show how American citizens feel about their data being tracked and stored on a daily basis. Specifically,[…]

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10/26 – Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems – Grayson Begier

October 25, 2021 gbb222Entries

In Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, Bryson discusses the evolution and future of AI in our society. First, she defines AI and the characteristics of intelligence which include, the capacity to[…]

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10/26: Google, democracy and the truth about internet research – Talia Feinberg

October 25, 2021 tbf223Entries

In the present day, any belief someone has can be confirmed within seconds based on a quick google search. In this article, this concept is discussed. No matter how outlandish a claim is, it can[…]

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10/26 “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search” – Deirdre Kelshaw

October 25, 2021 Deirdre KelshawEntries

In “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search,” Carole Cadwalladr argues that Google’s search engine algorithm is aiding the prevalence of misinformation online and that it’s influencing the way website visitors think. Cadwalladr shows[…]

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Zach Coriarty 9/26 “Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems”

October 25, 2021 zac222Entries

In “Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems” Bryson argues that AI has made incredible leaps in the past few years, specifically in data searching, but it has also introduced many new perils[…]

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10/26 Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control – Leah Montgomery

October 24, 2021 lmm222Entries

“Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control” provides the reader with a detailed set of statistics on the levels of concern that American citizens feel in terms of data privacy and the[…]

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10/26: Snowden – Falyn Goldstein

October 24, 2021 fmg222Entries

In the movie clip on Snowden, you see Snowden question the ethics of where the NSA is getting data from. Though this clip is rather short, you see Snowden question privacy rights and say “how[…]

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10/26-Moving towards inclusive design guidelines for socially and ethically aware HCI-Julia Duchossois

October 23, 2021 jud222Entries

In Moving towards inclusive design guidelines for socially and ethically aware HCI, Abascal and Nicolle push for inclusive design guidelines to prevent social exclusion, and propose some of these guidelines. The authors argue that one[…]

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