Monster by Paul Roehrig & Ben Pring

Author:Paul Roehrig & Ben Pring [Roehrig, Paul & Pring, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119785934
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2021-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Hasel, T. (2020). Zoom falls 11% after CEO apologizes for security lapses, says daily users spiked to 200 million in March. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/zoom-ceo-apologizes-for-security-issues-users-spike-to-200-million.html.

2. The total number of people living with depression — now more than 322 million across the globe — continues to grow. See: World Health Organization. (2017). Depression and other common mental disorders. https://www.who.int/publications-detail/depression-global-health-estimates. The suicide rate among the young in the US was relatively stable for years until the late 2000s — roughly when smartphones became nearly ubiquitous — and this has increased horribly since then. Teens who spend hours on their smartphones every day — seemingly most of them — are a terrifying 71% more likely to have higher risk factors for suicide. See: Lulu Garcia-Navarro. (2017). The risk of teen depression and suicide is linked to smartphone use, study says. NPR (December 17). https://www.npr.org/2017/12/17/571443683/the-call-in-teens-and-depression. A growing body of evidence links time on social media preceding unhappiness. See: Jean Twenge. (2018). Are smartphones causing more teen suicides? The Guardian (May 24). https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/24/smartphone-teen-suicide-mental-health-depression.

3. The University of Alabama. The ‘More Doctors Smoke Camels’ campaign. https://csts.ua.edu/ama/more-doctors-smoke-camels.

4. Jack Shephard. (2019). “Keith Richards says heroin is easier to kick than cigarettes. The Guardian (February 14). https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/keith-richards-heroin-cigarettes-alcohol-drugs-addiction-rolling-stones-a8778861.html.

5. One great summary of the cognitive revolution is by Yuval Noah Harari in his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Harper, 2015.

6. These examples and many more, along with the data and psychological reasoning for these biases, can be found in Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

7. Kanter, J. (2019). Facebook is to democracy what smoking is to your health, say technical experts. Business Insider. https://Jan. 23,2019, www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-a-damaging-to-your-health-as-cigarettes-say-tech-experts-2019-1.

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9. Amer, K. and Noujaim, J., dirs. (2019). The Great Hack. The Othrs. https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542.

10. Scott, M. (2018). Cambridge Analytica helped “cheat” Brexit vote and US election, claims whistleblower. Politico. https://www.politico.eu/article/cambridge-analytica-chris-wylie-brexit-trump-britain-data-protection-privacy-facebook.

11. Hayes, S.C. (2014). The unexpected way that new technology makes us unhappy. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/get-out-your-mind/201409/the-unexpected-way-new-technology-makes-us-unhappy.

12. Annunziata, M. (2019). The great cognitive depression. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcoannunziata/2019/01/11/the-great-cognitive-depression/#7036bb2774c1.

13. List of best-selling mobile phones. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_phones.

14. Eadicicco, L., Peckham, M., Fitzpatrick, A. et al. (2016). The 50 most influential gadgets of all time. Time. https://time.com/4309573/most-influential-gadgets/.

15. Taibbi, M. (2010). The great American bubble machine. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-195229.

16. Ritchie, H. and Roser, M. (2018). Mental health. Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health.

17. Brown, M. (2019). Drug abuse is a main driver behind America’s rising rate of “deaths of despair.” Deseret News. https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2019/9/5/20851638/drug-abuse-is-a-main-driver-behind-americas-rising-rate-of-deaths-of-despair.

18. The Rolling Stones. (1969. “Gimme Shelter” lyrics, Let It Bleed. Decca Records.

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