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Our Phones are Changing our Bodies
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Ashley Hales
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Social media addiction also changes our neurochemistry: our slumped posture produces cortisol; the backlit phone and blue light can suppress melatonin (needed for sleep); and a recent study with “hard...
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Walter J. Ong
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Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness, and never more than when they affect the word.
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Forever Elsewhere
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Sherry Turkle
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James 1:25, Mark 4:19, Hebrews 2:1, Isaiah 55:2-3, Ecclesiastes 5:1
We say we turn to our phones when we’re “bored.” And we often find ourselves bored because we have become accustomed to a constant feed of connection, information, and entertainment. We are forever el...
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Even Silent Phones Disconnect Us
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Sherry Turkle
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Studies of conversation both in laboratory and in natural settings show that when two people are talking, the mere presence of a phone on the table between them or in the periphery of their vision cha...
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Having Each Other at a Digital Distance
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Sherry Turkle
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In the short term, online communication makes us feel more in charge of our time and self-presentation. If we text rather than talk, we can have each other in amounts we can control. And texting and e...
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Nokia Phone Survey, 2013
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Psalm 46:10, Matthew 6:33, Mark 4:19
The average person uses their cell phone every six minutes and checks their phone 150 times a day.
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Todd Gitlin
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- Smart Phones
- Technology
People are submitting themselves to time-devouring technology. We’re a nerve-racked society where people have difficulty sitting back and thinking of the purpose of what they do.
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Young People and Smartphones
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Aaron Smith
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Fully 93% of 18-29 year old smartphone owners in the experience sampling study used their phone at least once to avoid being bored, with respondents in this age group reporting that they did so in ave...
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Targeting our Attention Gaps
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Tony Reinke
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- Distraction
- Phones
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Luke 10:41-42, Ecclesiastes 5:1, Mark 6:31, Isaiah 30:15, Psalm 46:10
Smartphones make it possible for the attention economy to target our little attention gaps as we transition between tasks and duties. Our attention may be slightly elastic enough to fill up every empt...
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I Forgot My Phone
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Below is the description of this short video, posted on youtube, click the link below the description to watch: Imagine a day when a young woman’s daily routine unfolds normally, with one exception: ...
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Losing to A Goldfish
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John Mark Comer
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Cue a terrifying trend: our attention span is dropping with each passing year. In 2000, before the digital revolution, it was twelve seconds, so it’s not exactly like we had a lot of wiggle room. But ...
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Alone Together
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Jay Y. Kim
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Proverbs 18:24, Romans 12:9-12, Hebrews 10:24-25, Galatians 3:2, John 13:34-35, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Proverbs 27:17, Proverbs 18:1
In this excerpt from Jay Y. Kim’s book, Analog Church , the author shares about an experience at a local restaurant after being convicted of his own smartphone use at home, keeping him from being p...
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A Photo-Filled World
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Have you ever wondered how many photographs are taken every day across the world? Europeans, with all of their scenic locations, take the least number of pictures per day, but it’s still probably high...
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Sherry Turkle
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We say we turn to our phones when we’re “bored.” And we often find ourselves bored because we have become accustomed to a constant feed of connection, information, and entertainment. We are forever el...
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Michael Winnick
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The average iPhone user touches his or her phone 2,617 times a day.
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Henry David Thoreau
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- Technology
- Smart Phones
Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Nokia Phone Survey
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- Smart Phones
The average person uses their cell phone every six minutes and checks their phone 150 times a day.
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The Struggles of Parenting in the Digital Age
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Jonathan Haidt
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When I talk with parents of adolescents, the conversation often turns to smartphones, social media, and video games. The stories parents tell me tend to fall into a few common patterns. One is the “co...
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Why We Text and Drive
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Louis C. K.
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In this poignant social commentary, the comedian Louis C.K. points out why it is that people are constantly staring at their cell-phones: because they don’t want to acknowledge the loneliness that is ...
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Waiting Forces us To Reckon with the Deep Questions of our Identity
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Ashley Hales
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But as we grow older, waiting feels like an inconvenience or affront. We take out our phones when we’re waiting in the grocery store aisle for two minutes. We listen to podcasts on our commute. We lea...
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Tony Reinke
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Like a smartphone screen made blank by the rays of direct sunshine, one day we shall see Christ’s face. On that day, all the vain spectacles in this world of illusions and all the pixelated idols of o...
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Designed to be Addictive
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Ed Cyzewski
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1 Corinthians 6:12, 1 Peter 5:8, Matthew 6:22-33, Proverbs 4:23, 1 Corinthians 10:13
We don’t necessarily need to wade through research studies or the expert opinions of psychologists to prove that devices and social media apps are designed to become invasive, habit-forming and compul...
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Cal Newport
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- Technology
- Smart Phones
The source of our unease . . . becomes visible only when confronting the thicker reality of how these technologies as a whole have managed to expand beyond the minor roles for which we initially adopt...
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Nicholas G. Carr
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We want to be interrupted, because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch, or even socially isolated.
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6 Eye-Opening Statistics
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- Distraction
- Smart Phones
65 percent of parents, ages 25-34, believe they check their phone too much. (56% of kids agree.) 31 percent of parents say they don’t set a good example with mobile device usage. (22% of kids agree.)...
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Adolescence and the Pings, Not Pong
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Craig Detweiler
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Adolescents have been offered a license to post without any accompanying ethical framework. Is it fair to blame teens for misusing tools that didn’t exist in our childhood? If I had been given a phone...
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A Fifteen Year Old Boy
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With my friends, it’s either no conversation or conversation about what’s going on, on your phone.
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Cory Doctorow
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The biggest impediment to concentration is your computer's ecosystem of interruption technologies: IM, email alerts, RSS alerts, Skype rings, etc. Anything that requires you to wait for a response...
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Jay Y. Kim
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- Smart Phones
According to professor and author Adam Alter, the average phone usage among adults rose from eighteen minutes per day in 2008 to two hours and forty-eight minutes per day in 2015. This isn’t because w...
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Sherry Turkle
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Digital connections . . . may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other.

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