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Of course it's bad, and of course it's good. The question is too simple. Smartphones are democratizing access to information, so they enable potential empowerm
by uniqueuid 5y ago
Of course it's bad, and of course it's good. The question is too simple.
Smartphones are democratizing access to information, so they enable potential empowerment.
Smartphones also nudge users towards stupid, irrational, emotional, impulse decisions that harm them (microtransactions, subscriptions, mindless consumption). They also make it hard to do meaningful empowering work, such as reading up contracts, laws and education-related information (i.e. cannot read a PDF on a smartphone). [1]
A simplistic model would be that smartphones help those wo are worst off, but harm those in the middle. Highly privileged people are in an entirely other world of course.
[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2050157917708329?casa_token=Y0gym7N4DMQAAAAA:Iri9sLT8Eh7Bt-MbPyUcKxw2PLGiyqWXvqbEzeuS7W-oo8y_DkN7aBKC-BRoQ48RAmeA1I0I7zqCZA https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/205015791770832...