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Grassroots Activists Must Consider the Personal Costs of Digital Campaigns

By Delia Dumitrica, Mylynn Felt — 2020

Widespread use of social media has made it easier to mobilize collective action, yet citizen activists struggle to navigate these digital tools and increasingly report feeling burned out.

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An Introduction to Social Media Addiction

When it comes to the use of social media—a relatively new phenomenon—striking a balance between productive versus addictive use comes easier for some people than others. As recently as 2011, only 35 percent of U.S. adults owned a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center.

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2022
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What Our Negative Comments and Consumer Gripes on Social Media Reveal about Us

To figure out why people complain so much on social media, we analysed negative posts on Facebook about brands caught up in media controversies at the time.

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Angela R. Dobele, Ashleigh Powell
2022
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Why People Keep Scrolling When They Say They Are Done with Facebook

Why is it so hard to keep off the app if you have decided you are done with Facebook? Because the platform taps into our societal needs and biological drives to keep us coming back for more, experts say.

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Madeline Holcombe
2021
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Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All into Dopamine Addicts

According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?

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Jamie Waters
2021
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The Second Act of Social-Media Activism

What’s distinct about the current media activism movement is not just the clarity of its messaging, but its ability to convey that message through so much noise.

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Jane Hu
2020
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Student Voice: How Young People Use Social Media to Engage Civically

While some young people might not be able to vote yet, they are leveraging social media to educate themselves and their peers on social justice topics ranging from gun violence to racial justice to climate change.

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Rainier Harris
2020
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The Question We’ve Stopped Asking About Teen-Agers and Social Media

I’m not sure we should be so quick to give up on interrogating the necessity of these technologies in our lives, especially when they impact the well-being of our children.

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Cal Newport
2021
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The Brain Equivalent of Global Warming

Nobody’s proven that digital addiction rots your brain.

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Edward Hallowell
2018
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