{"id":4286,"date":"2026-11-08T22:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2026-11-08T22:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:43:59","slug":"project-4-prep-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/project-4-prep-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 4 Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media is stealing our attention<\/p>\n<p>Topic: Social Media platforms are designed to keep users engaged and scrolling, which takes up too much of their valuable time and attention.<\/p>\n<p>Message: Social media should be designed for communication, updates, and human connection, rather than an attention thief.<\/p>\n<p>Hook: Something along the lines of &#8220;Went to check the time; that was five hours ago.&#8221; (maybe?)<\/p>\n<p>(that would be slide 1)<\/p>\n<p>Slide two talks about why this happens: there is always more scrolling, endless videos, pictures, etc that all take your attention.<\/p>\n<p>Slide three talks about why this is harmful: why is our attention being taken from us a bad thing? Why is social media training our brains to have a short-term attention span?<\/p>\n<p>Slide four talks about slide three, but more in depth: what does this take away from our lives?<\/p>\n<p>Slide five: humane design choices to stop this attention stealing. some ideas could be things like screen time blockers, notifications only when they&#8217;re necessary, no autoplay, break reminders, more screen time settings, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(going to create my slides in Canva)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media is stealing our attention Topic: Social Media platforms are designed to keep users engaged and scrolling, which takes up too much of their valuable time and attention. Message: Social media should be designed for communication, updates, and human connection, rather than an attention thief. Hook: Something along the lines of &#8220;Went to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-4-prep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.org\/nmd200\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}