{"id":2290,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/the-dangers-posed-by-social-media-and-what-they-mean-for-the-smartphone-generation\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-dangers-posed-by-social-media-and-what-they-mean-for-the-smartphone-generation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/the-dangers-posed-by-social-media-and-what-they-mean-for-the-smartphone-generation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers Posed By Social Media, and What They Mean for the Smartphone Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project aims:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tTo raise awareness of the dangers facing this and future generations, such as the mental health crisis and the existential threat to society.<br \/>\n\u2022\t To offer real world practical solutions, such as legal\/governmental legislation to moderate social media and by limiting our own social media use today.<br \/>\n\u2022\tTo create a challenge for myself, by applying 20th century philosophy to a modern-day concept.<\/p>\n<p>Object\/territory:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tSocial media: The big six include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok.<br \/>\n\u2022\tSmartphone generation or Generation Z is anyone born between 1995-2012, this is the first generation to grow up with social media.<\/p>\n<p>Sources used:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tConsciousness, Art and Technology: Karl Barthes, \u2018The Death of the Author\u2019 and Walter Benjamin, \u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. The social media author is dead, and the cause is suicide.<br \/>\n\u2022\tKantian and Post-Kantian Philosophy: Sigmund Freud, \u2018Instincts and their Vicissitudes\u2019. There is a drive attached to social media.<br \/>\n\u2022\t\u2018iGen\u2019 book by Jean Twenge notices children are growing up slower and are facing a mental health crisis.<br \/>\n\u2022\t\u2018The Social Dilemma\u2019 documents how social media is deigned to addict the user and then sell their data on. This can then end up in the wrong hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Steward, 2021, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,128],"tags":[344,345,29],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-barthes","tag-generation-z","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}