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Jul 11, 2016
"Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. " --Sherry Turkle
Our Relationship With Media & Attention
Mary Rothschild studies the effects of media on young children. She tells this story, "Each child was happily kneading their dough, these two, two-and-a-half to five-year-old children, and making a bread animal or something. I thought, "Wow. It's been like four minutes and they're all quiet!"Then this little girl next to me looked up and said, "Mary, the Lion King video is too loud." So I thought somebody was playing music in their car, or something. So I listened and then I said: "I can't hear it." The little girl said, "It's in my head." That's when I really started working with the nonprofit because I couldn't not do this work. Media is here to stay, but are there things we need to do around our consumption of media?
BE THE CHANGE
Do the ways you and your family interact with media sufficiently reflect your highest priorities? If not, consider what measures you can take to change this.
