"I’ve been at supermarkets in the sprawling, affluent community of Summerlin, Nevada".. one of those lines that makes the author lose credibility in the first paragraph alone.
"This was supposed to be the year that schools broke up with smartphones."
Honestly, this starts to get kind of depressing if I actually think about it. The teachers don't even know how to use their phones, the article is about kids consuming via the phones, there should be MANDATORY use of phones in schools and there should be EXTENSIVE education about how they work and how to use them properly. Instead the attention hungry teachers are still trying to find ways to force kids to pay attention to them for no legitimate reason. Just another example of how society has failed to evolve in any meaningful way even with all of the world's recorded knowledge in everyone's pockets.
Video based news reporting has always been exploitative entertainment, I'm sure the Pew Research Center hasn't wasted any time running the numbers of how many fashion influencers skew female v. other genders. Fashion is a form of communication and news gets communicated through fashion just as much as it does every other artform. Likewise with BookTok, or any other genre, news gets communicated through all of it, the subject is just a conduit. People who want to watch people actually waste their lives barking at each other about politics apparently just want to hear it from male characters for whatever reason. If those same guys did an earnest CSWM it would get ten views because that show calls for a different character in the lead.
I thought the comment about Bluesky being full of theater kids made a lot of sense. This is all theater 101.
"I’ve been at supermarkets in the sprawling, affluent community of Summerlin, Nevada".. one of those lines that makes the author lose credibility in the first paragraph alone.
"This was supposed to be the year that schools broke up with smartphones."
Honestly, this starts to get kind of depressing if I actually think about it. The teachers don't even know how to use their phones, the article is about kids consuming via the phones, there should be MANDATORY use of phones in schools and there should be EXTENSIVE education about how they work and how to use them properly. Instead the attention hungry teachers are still trying to find ways to force kids to pay attention to them for no legitimate reason. Just another example of how society has failed to evolve in any meaningful way even with all of the world's recorded knowledge in everyone's pockets.
Video based news reporting has always been exploitative entertainment, I'm sure the Pew Research Center hasn't wasted any time running the numbers of how many fashion influencers skew female v. other genders. Fashion is a form of communication and news gets communicated through fashion just as much as it does every other artform. Likewise with BookTok, or any other genre, news gets communicated through all of it, the subject is just a conduit. People who want to watch people actually waste their lives barking at each other about politics apparently just want to hear it from male characters for whatever reason. If those same guys did an earnest CSWM it would get ten views because that show calls for a different character in the lead.
I thought the comment about Bluesky being full of theater kids made a lot of sense. This is all theater 101.