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The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
The clearest impact of technology on teen development to date has been starkly negative. According to psychologist Jean Twenge’s 2017 book, iGen, smartphone use has caused a spike in depression and anxiety among people born from 1995 on, and a diminution in sociability and independence. An excerpt of her book in The Atlantic was aptly titled, “Have
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Derek Thompson • Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
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Les jeunes gens nés entre 1995 et 2012, groupe que Twenge appelle « iGen », montraient des différences remarquables par rapport aux Millennials qui les avaient précédés. L’un des changements les plus importants et les plus troublants touchait leur santé psychologique. « Les taux de dépression et de suicide chez les ados ont monté en flèche », écrit
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In sum, our efforts to find and elicit the views of Gen Z largely confirm our initial concerns while also suggesting additional avenues for investigation. The kids are not alright, and the combination of smartphones and social media is a major reason why
Jonathan Haidt • Do the Kids Think They’re Alright?
"In the new book “The Anxious Generation,” the sociologist and pundit Jonathan Haidt links smartphone technology to escalating teen depression and other ill effects. “The members of Gen Z are . . . test subjects for a radical new way of growing up, far from the real-world interactions of small communities in which humans evolved,” he
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