You Should Consider Breaking Up With Social Media (2019)
Matthew Landis is happy to present a vlog on breaking up with social media. Have something to add, or a question to ask? Leave a comment below!
Complete Source List (in order of usage)
My 2018 Keynote “How To Not Be Miserable On Your Writing Journey“
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
“Connected, but alone?” – Sherry Turkle, TED2012
“Your Addiction to Social Media Is No Accident” – Julian Morgans, VICE
“How better tech could protect us from distraction” – Tristin Harris, TEDxBrussles 2014
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
“Life in the ‘digital now’” – Abha Dawesar, TEDGlobal 2013
“How Twitter Fuels Anxiety” – Laura Turner, The Atlantic
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Twitter is “The High School We Can’t Log Off From” – Jennifer Senior, NYT
Turkle quote “Technology makes us forget what we know about life” – Her sit down with the Huffington Post in 2016
“The Online Disinhibition Effect” – John Suler, Ph.D., Cyberpsychology & Behavior, Volume 7, Number 3, 2004 (Hint: You can read this for free by using ACADEMIA and signing in with Google.)
Turkle quote about technology as “soda water” – Alone, Together: Why We Expect More From Technology And Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle
The Circle by David Eggers
My website – www.matthew-landis.com
My email: [email protected]
Further Reading/Viewing On This Topic
Novels
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Landscape of Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson
Articles
Tristan Harris essay on “intermittent variable rewards“
“After using Facebook and Twitter for more than 10 years, I quit both — here’s why“
“How Social Media and Mob Mentality Are Killing Our Ability to Think Critically“
“We Live In Fear of Online Mobs“
“The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter” – Kat Rosenfield, VULTURE
“Think You Wouldn’t Do Evil? Think Again.“
“7 Ways Social Media Changes Your Brain, According to Science” – Bustle Magazine
Videos
Adam Alter’s TED Talk that mirrors his book, Irristible
Jon Ronson’s incredible/terrifying TED Talk on online shaming
Matthew Landis teaches middle school history outside Philadelphia, where he seeks to make the past come alive in not-boring ways. He is a closet HALO fan, and can sometimes be found reading novels adapted from that video game. He is blessed with an amazing wife and two kids, and hopes to one day write a book that moves people like Lev Grossman, Jo Nesbo, or Ron Rash have moved him. He is the author of YA Thriller The League of American Traitors (Sky Pony Press, 2017) and MG fiction The Not-So-Boring Letters of Private Nobody (Dial/Penguin, 2018). His forthcoming MG novel, It’s the End of the World as I Know It (Dial/Penguin, 2019), features an 8th grade boy turning his backyard shed into a doomsday shelter in order to survive the apocalypse.
