Episode 128: “What Should We Know About Artificial Intelligence?” with Jason Thacker
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here. RSS FEED – click here. Access from iTunes. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Jason Thacker (website) The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission The WeeklyTech…
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Girls, Social Media, and Suicide
New research, reported in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, is telling us that as teens use of social media has grown over the last ten years, so too has the suicide rate among young people. Suicide is now the…
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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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Clothing Pockets and TikTok Followers
Journalist Colleen Dilthey Thomas recently shared a story about a new teen social media trend that visited the family of a friend. It was Christmas morning and the family’s twelve-year-old son opened a gift containing a pair of athletic pants…
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Performative Disapproving
One of the best ways to track cultural changes is to look at the new words that make their way into the dictionary each and every year. Back in January, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary added a two-word phrase that is worth…
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Social Media and Depression
With the recent death of Saved By The Bell actor Dustin Diamond, I got to reminiscing about the early 1990s sitcom that took place in the hallowed halls of fictional Bayside High. I went back and watched a couple of…
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