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The Role of Social Media in our Lives | Jake Swayze | TEDxSouthPasadenaHigh

2015

People, teenagers especially, need to evaluate the role of technology and social media in their lives. In his talk, Jake describes his experiences with social media as a teen and explores the effect it has had on his generation. Jake is a student at South Pasadena High School. See more...

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8 Ways to Change Your Digital Life (So It Doesn't Drive You Crazy)

In this episode, Chelsea shows us all the little-known ways to live better online — something that's especially important to those of us practicing social distancing (which we all should be!), as we're spending even more time than usual at home and on our devices.

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2020
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13:45

How the Internet Changed Everything

A brief discussion of how the internet came to be, and how it has drastically changed how we connect and interact with other people and with the world around us.

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2019
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Growing Up Digital: Life in A World of Networks and Screens

For nearly all of human history, communication and social interaction involved face-to-face contact. Now, screen-based digital devices mediate a substantial array of interactions.

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2019
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12:23

LifeEdited: Building a Less but Better Digital Lifestyle | Graham Hill | TEDxGateway

In his talk, Graham Hill talk about how people can design their lives for more happiness with less stuff, and less attachment to their screens.

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2015
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15:27

What Makes “Generation Z” So Different? | Harry Beard | TEDxAstonUniversity

Harry Beard is a 17-year-old entrepreneur who co-founded the generation Z marketing consultancy firm, Future Labs. Generation Z are, at an increasingly young age, putting themselves at the forefront of global discourse and empowering themselves through social media.

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2019
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NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work | WSJ

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have exploded onto the digital art scene this past year. Proponents say they are a way to make digital assets scarce, and therefore more valuable. WSJ explains how they work, and why skeptics question whether they’re built to last.

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2021
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Creative Coding as a Tool for Digital Empowerment

On September 18, 2021, I gave a talk at TEDx UniPaderborn about how Creative Coding can be seen as a tool for digital empowerment.

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2021
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How Digital Minimalism Can Make You More Creative

Do you ever wish you were less distracted and more focused on your writing project? Do you wish you looked at your phone less, or spent less time in front of a screen, but you aren't sure where to start? Today, Abbie and I are discussing how digital minimalism has helped us as writers and...

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2021
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Does CBD Improve Mental Health?

CBD is so hot right now. The compound is being added to everything from gummies to lattes, attached to claims about how it can improve health in any number of ways. But what do we really know about the validity of those claims? And what are we actually getting in consumer CBD products?

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2021
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How Modern Work Pressure Distorts Our Identity | Burnout

In the first part of The National’s series Battling Burnout, Canadian author and workplace expert Rahaf Harfoush tells Andrew Chang that pressures in the modern workplace are distorting our identities by often placing success at work at the expense of mental and physical well-being.

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2019
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