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Phones for children are not (just) entertainment devices; they’re social spaces (i.e. where other kids are) and channels for absorbing social norms and cultural
by derefr 3y ago
Phones for children are not (just) entertainment devices; they’re social spaces (i.e. where other kids are) and channels for absorbing social norms and cultural shibboleths (which used to be a role played by mainstream media — kids growing up knowing the same quotes from the same cartoons, etc — but now is almost exclusively played by p2p media.)
A child without access to (some of) the Internet, is in roughly the same position, in terms of “ability to enculturate”, as a new immigrant trying to attend a University by commuting rather than living in dorms is.
- soperj 3y agonever seen a kid in that age group ever text(or communicate with) anyone. It's just a zombie device.
- jacobr1 3y agoNot in the 5-7 age range. Once they hit middle-school what you stated becomes more applicable.
- WheatMillington 3y agoWe are talking about 5 - 7 year olds!
- rvba 3y agoWhat social norms will you get from weird spiderman movies on youtube (that look like some sort of russian psy-ops) or from chinese tiktok algorhitm, that shows educational stuff for chinese children and complete utter garbage for those in the West? Damn, in the past the "history channel" showed actual history or you could discover things at discovery. Now discovery is psuedo-science about people building the biggest X and blowing it up. I am not saying that children should not be given access to smartphones, but that tiktok (and modern youtube - especially with the new algorhitms) just feed them complete and utter crap. Worst of the worst.
- sn9 3y agoImmigration doesn't drastically increase your chances for depression, anxiety, body dysmorphia, disordered eating, insomnia, and executive dysfunction.
- derefr 3y agoThe analogy is between what happens afterward, due to missing the enculturative influence: failing to make friends at school due to lack of primary enculturation; vs. failing to get a job related to your degree due to lack of tertiary enculturation (a.k.a. "lack of culture fit.") Both situations can result in environmentally-induced mental illness.
- sn9 3y agoMany things can induce mental illness, but few can so reliably and universally increase such a broad swath of mental illnesses, and they usually aren't literally engineered to be addictive.