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Deepak Kumar Vasudevan Jul 3, 2025

Let this be a wake-up call. Not just to put down our phones—but to pick up our children’s emotions.

#PresenceOverPresents #ParentingReflections #EmotionalNeglect #DigitalDisconnect

Video Credits: #Whatsapp

The Internet is Crack Apr 25, 2025

We made avatars of ourselves and forgot how to be human.
Professor Niko Poulakos joined The Internet is Crack to discuss how the internet is reshaping human connection—and the quiet cost of forgetting how to show up in person.

🎧 Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/nRQyNkuKMCQ

#TheInternetIsCrack #HumanSignal #DigitalDisconnect #TechAndSociety #AvatarsEverywhere #ModernLoneliness

#26 Internet Survival: What Happens When We Forget How to Be Human

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Seb Mar 6, 2025

Eyes skimming stories,
Scrolling thumbs outpace the mind—
Meaning left behind.

@haiku

#MindfulScrolling #DigitalDisconnect #LostInTranslation #ScrollButNotRead #SocialMediaIrony #ModernAttentionSpan #DigitalEchoes #SkimmingCulture #Haiku #Poem

bs2 Sep 29, 2022

> #McChesney points out, "the criticism of out-of-control #technology is in large part a critique of out-of-control #commercialism. The loneliness, #alienation, and unhappiness sometimes ascribed to the #Internet are also associated with a #marketplace gone wild."
Discourse about the Internet often proceeds as if digital technology has some kind of mind or will of its own. It does not.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/digital-disconnect_b_2971464
#NormonSolomon on #RobertMcChesney #DigitalDisconnect

Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet

We have a profound, far-reaching fight on our hands, at a crossroads leading toward democracy or corporate monopoly. The future of humanity is at stake.

HuffPost

bs2 Sep 29, 2022

> .. when the #Internet began, and this is—it seems like ancient history now—in the ’80s and ’90s, when we first people became aware of it, it was seen largely as a non-commercial oasis. It was a place where people could go and be equal and be empowered as citizens to take on concentrated economic and political power, to battle #propaganda, and there was no #advertising, there was no #commercialism. That was off-limits.
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/5/digital_disconnect_robert_mcchesney_on_how
#RobertMcChesney 2013 #DigitalDisconnect

Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on “How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy”

Longtime media-reform advocate Robert McChesney looks at how the future of American politics could be largely determined by who controls the Internet in his newest book. “'Digital Disconnect' talks about the difference between the mythology of the Internet, the hope of the Internet, that it would empower people and make democracy triumphant, versus the reality, which is that large corporate monopolies and the government, working together, are taking away the promise of the Internet to suit their interests,” says McChesney, the co-founder of Free Press and the National Conference for Media Reform. His book begins with a simple claim: “The ways capitalism works and does not work determine the role the Internet might play in society.” [includes rush transcript]

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