{"id":499,"date":"2016-10-13T18:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T22:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/?p=499"},"modified":"2016-10-13T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T22:13:22","slug":"topic-for-a-blog-post-due-oct-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/topic-for-a-blog-post-due-oct-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic for a blog post due Oct. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/11\/the-binge-breaker\/501122\/\">\u201cThe Binge Breaker\u201d<\/a> (from the November 2016 issue of <em>The Atlantic<\/em> magazine) and write a response to it\u00a0that draws\u00a0on your own experiences, impressions, and ideas about media, apps, phones, attention, screen addiction, and so on.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Some possible topics:<\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>apps and media as junk food, loaded with the equivalent of a scientifically adjusted level of salt, fat, sugar, and crunch in order to produce maximum addiction&#8230; or even apps and media as cigarettes?<\/li>\n<li>TL:DR&#8230; are media sapping our ability to sustain attention?<\/li>\n<li>media and mindfulness<\/li>\n<li>have you ever felt manipulated by an app or electronic medium?<\/li>\n<li>changes to apps to make them more (or less?) addictive<\/li>\n<li>do tech firms owe their users a less manipulative experience\u2014maybe one that helps them work towards\u00a0more balanced lives?<\/li>\n<li>do apps\/social media make a good use of our time?<\/li>\n<li>Snapstreaks (&#8220;it made me sick to my stomach\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>do you think people<em> would<\/em>\u00a0pay a premium for \u201corganic\u201d apps that help them monitor and\/or control their usage? If so, are we headed for a mediascape in which the poor only have media junk food available, while the wealthy have the tools to consume better media (or consume media better)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read \u201cThe Binge Breaker\u201d (from the November 2016 issue of The Atlantic magazine) and write a response to it\u00a0that draws\u00a0on your own experiences, impressions, and ideas about media, apps, phones, attention, screen addiction, and so on. Some possible topics: apps and media as junk food, loaded with the equivalent of a scientifically adjusted level of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/topic-for-a-blog-post-due-oct-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Topic for a blog post due Oct. 16<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,27,26],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-assignment","tag-addiction","tag-apps","tag-phones"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/mindmedia-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}