{"id":1316,"date":"2025-10-07T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:12:50","slug":"project-2-nate-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/project-2-nate-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 2 &#8211; Nate Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAG1IvhvY_w\/QNFEwS9u0PQ5nIJgfwCczg\/edit?utm_content=DAG1IvhvY_w&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=link2&amp;utm_source=sharebutton\">Project 2 &#8211; Nate Walker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For this project, I visualized my personal \u201cattention map,\u201d using a brain-map to represent how my focus and time were distributed last week. Each hotspot corresponds to a primary activity, and they are color-coded by average daily hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This map demonstrates the imbalance of my attention. Areas involved with screens (Screentime, Creative Work, Homework) occupy most of my brain, while restorative\/relaxing areas (Outside Time, Chores) are smaller. The visualization has proven to me, despite consistent productivity, that I need to allow more time for mental health and relaxation. Stress has been building for me since the start of the year, and in order to prevent myself from becoming overwhelmed, I need to allow more time to decompress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Harvard Business Review. \u201cYour Brain on Digital Overload.\u201d <i>HBR.org<\/i>, 2023. https:\/\/hbr.org\/2023\/05\/your-brain-on-digital-overload<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Humane Tech. \u201cSocial Media and the Brain.\u201d humaneTech.com. https:\/\/www.humanetech.com\/youth\/social-media-and-the-brain<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 2 &#8211; Nate Walker For this project, I visualized my personal \u201cattention map,\u201d using a brain-map to represent how my focus and time were distributed last week. Each hotspot corresponds to a primary activity, and they are color-coded by average daily hours. This map demonstrates the imbalance of my attention. Areas involved with screens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14","category-project-2","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Your-paragraph-text-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}