I wonder if social media technology is as much at fault as the neoliberal program of exporting well-paid manufacturing jobs overseas and replacing them with low-paid service jobs (with the difference going into the pockets of the shareholders) is.
If children are being raised on TikTok, okay, the average video length on TikTok is a couple minutes. Advertisements are now 5-15 seconds. This is not conducive to 'long attention span'. Now, imagine popping these kids into a classroom and expecting them to pay close attention for, say, 15 minutes, without any breaks. What to do... diagnose them with ADHD and dose them with amphetamines, what else? Of course this is the same issue for girls and boys but is generally going to create more of a dumbed-down population. Kids are probably better off playing video games instead, those require more attention. Even better, encourage them to read actual books.
I wonder if the WaPo would be interested in publishing any critiques of social media effects on children, given their ties to Big Tech... Let's see... "New report: Most teens say social media makes them feel better, not worse, about themselves (2018)"
Corporate media claims... remember this one? "NAFTA and China WTO will raise the standard of living for all Americans!"
If children are being raised on TikTok, okay, the average video length on TikTok is a couple minutes. Advertisements are now 5-15 seconds. This is not conducive to 'long attention span'. Now, imagine popping these kids into a classroom and expecting them to pay close attention for, say, 15 minutes, without any breaks. What to do... diagnose them with ADHD and dose them with amphetamines, what else? Of course this is the same issue for girls and boys but is generally going to create more of a dumbed-down population. Kids are probably better off playing video games instead, those require more attention. Even better, encourage them to read actual books.
I wonder if the WaPo would be interested in publishing any critiques of social media effects on children, given their ties to Big Tech... Let's see... "New report: Most teens say social media makes them feel better, not worse, about themselves (2018)"
Corporate media claims... remember this one? "NAFTA and China WTO will raise the standard of living for all Americans!"