Doomscrolling
Way back in the 1970s media critic George Gerbner coined the term mean-world syndrome. In his research, Gerbner was finding that viewers who were exposed to a growing amount of violent television content were more apt to experience an increased…
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“Numb” The Teen Film
What have our kids been experiencing over the course of the last twelve months? What has it felt like to grow up in a Covid-infected world where their everyday routines have changed? A friend recently sent me a link to…
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Deepfake Pornography
Our friends at ProtectYoungMinds.org recently ran a story on some of the sneaky ways that pornography targets kids in today’s online world. One strategy is the use of deepfake technology. Deepfakes are photo manipulations where a person in an existing…
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