Internet Technology

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I Am Not My Cell Phone: Barbara Sasso

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• Anxiety among Teens on the Rise
• 60 Minutes: The Harm from Facebook and Instagram Exposed
• Phone Down Song, by Lost Kings (Profanity) and lyrics
• Lost in the World Like Me, by Moby
• Just a Picture by Kehlani and Lyrics
• Look Up
• Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? 
• #Selfie
• Get Off the Phone Song
• Unplug
• Evolution
• Body Evolution 
• Nouveau Parfum and Lyrics
• Think Before You Post
• To Be Human is to Be Transhuman
• We Are Already Cyborgs
• Plastic
• Open Your Eyes: Distracted Driving PSA
• How is Your Phone Changing You?
• Take a Smart Phone Vacation
• 3-D Printed Organs
• Artificial Intelligence: 27
• Texting While Walking
• Texting While Walking WSJ
• Texting While Walking Dangers
• Deaths Up Due to Texting While Walking 
• Has the Smart Phone Destroyed a Generation?

Article Links: Affects of Cell Phones and Inter-Connectivity on Human Life

• Smartphone Liberation: A Teen Leads the Way
• The New Luddites
• Does Social Media Make Teens Depressed?
• But Does Anyone Really Know if It Does Harm Girls?
• The Cesspool of Instagram 
• Facebook Blocked Research Showing Instagram Harms Teenagers
• Phones, Stress, and Living Longer
• Phones and Teenage Depression
• Look Up: New York Times Opinion Version 
• Screens Damage Brain Development in Children
• Preschoolers and Screen Addiction
• Social Media Addiction Risks for Adolescents
• Now, Kids Think Their Parents are Addicted!
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
• The Kids are All Right: Is Tech Really So Bad for Kids?
• African American Celebrities Whitewashed for Magazines
• Put Down Your Phone and Live Longer
• The Dangers of the Attention Economy
• Why Phones Are Addictive
• How to Break Up With Your Phone
• How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
• We Love Phones More Than People
• No-Phone Zones at Home
• Are You in Love With Your Phone?
• Screen Time Taking Tole on Children
• iPhones Are Hurting Children
• Is Your Child a Phone Addict?
• Modern technology is changing the way our brains work, says neuroscientist - Daily Mail Online
• The Devil Lives in Your Phone
• The Digital Gap: How Poor Kids Suffer from More Exposure to Screens
• Cell Phone Addiction Quiz
• Video Game Addiction is Classified as a Disease
• But Perhaps Gaming Is Only a Bad Habit
• Theories of Self, by Barbara Sasso
• Revenge Porn: Time Magazine
• Cell-Phone Distracted Parenting Can Have Consequences on Children
• Put Down the Smart Phone for the Children's Sake
• Overexposed? Camera Memories Could Be Washing Away Our Real Memories
• Point and Shoot and Memory Loss
• Losing Our Touch - NYTimes
• People Choose Cell Phones over Sex
• Recusing Ourselves To Death: Social Media’s Silent Majority Is Damaging Our Democracy
• How Your Cell Phone Hurts Your Relationships - Helen Lee Lin
• How Cell Phones Make You Less Empathetic
• Negative Effects of Smartphones on Relationships
• The Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude - Sherry Turkle
• When Did Porn Become Sex Ed?
• Talking About Internet Porn with Your Children
• How mobile phones are turning into phantom limbs - Adrian Hon
• Psst. Look Over Here. - NYTimes.com
• If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online - Tamar Lewin
• Oral History - Virtual Reality
• Is Technology Making Us Stupid (and Smarter)? | Psychology Today
• Our Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter, And It's A Big Problem (NEW BOOK)
• Is Google Making Us Stupid- - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic
• My Selfie, Myself - NYTimes.com
• An Ugly Toll of Technology - Impatience and Forgetfulness - NYTimes.com
• The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com
• Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime - NYTimes.com
• More Americans Sense Downside to Being Plugged In - NYTimes.com
• Your Cell Phone Is Not Part of Your Body -- You Can Let It Go | Robert Piper
• Is virtual reality the future of the internet
• The Meanings of the Selfie - NYTimes.com
• The Selfie Craze: Are We Becoming a Narcissistic Nation? | Judy Farah
• Technology’s Toll- Impatience and Forgetfulness - NYTimes.com
• Are You Addicted to Your Cell Phone- - Psychology Today
• Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children 
• How to Cut Children's Screen Time? Say No to Yourself First.
• Don't Post About Me on Social Media, Children Say
• Multi-Tasking Failure: Reading without Distraction
• Multitaskers: Your Brain is in Trouble
• The High Price of Multitasking
• Unplugged: Going 24 Hours without Media
• Can Students on Cell Phones Actually Learn?
• Are Teenagers Replacing Drug Use with Cell Phones?
• Hooked on Our Cell Phones
• I Used to Be a Human Being
• Marshall McLuhan and Altered Reality of Mobile Phones
• Understanding Body Ownership and Self
• Virtual Reality Wherever You Go
• NPR: Google and Immersive Technology 
• Is Technology Making Us Stupid (and Smarter)?
• Why Do Students Have More Anxiety?
• Are You Phubbing?
• France Bans Smartphones in Classrooms
• How Does Screen Time Affect Grades?
• Narcissus as Narcosis From Understanding Media: The Extension of Man by Marshall McLuhan
• Do You Trust This Computer?
• Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation? (Twenge in The Atlantic)

Short Stories about Technology

• From The Privacy Project: New York Times
• People Who Live Far, Far Away, by Elizabeth Cohen
• Gabriella, by Anna Paolucci
• August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury
• The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury
• Dr Heidigger's Experiment, by Nathanael Hawthorne
• The Myth of Echo and Narcissus: The numbing effect of media
• The Circle, by Dave Eggers (This is a novel.) 

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