Smartphones and Appearance Pressure
A recent research report from the City University Of London offers insights into how young women are feeling increased pressure to look perfect thanks to the advent and growth of social media. The report is titled “Changing The Perfect Picture:…
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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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