32 Bibliography for Part Five

Further reading on how the Internet has changed society.

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1. Data Resources

Our World in Data. Internet & Technological Change. Global Change Data Lab, University of Oxford, 2024.

Pew Research Center. Internet and Technology Topics, Pew Charitable Trust, 2024.

Visual Capitalist. Technology Infographics, Visual Capitalist, 2024.

2. General Collections of High-Quality Sources

• The websites below host large, searchable collections of free high-quality sources on various topics.

After Babel (substack of Sociologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation.)

Ars Technica (journalism specifically centered around technology).

The Associated Press (World’s largest source of free, unbiased news.)

The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (Ethics articles sponsored by The Carnegie Corporation, one of the largest non-profits in the US.)

Child Trends (research organization focused on the well-being of US kids.)

The Conversation (non-profit, independent journalism written by academics and content experts)

National Public Radio — aka NPR (Journalism subsidized by American Public Broadcasting in both print and audio format)

3. Artificial Intelligence

Alimardani, Maryam. “Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body?” TedEd, 2018. VIDEO SOURCE.

Giattino, Charlie, Edouard Mathieu, Veronika Samborska and Max Roser. “Artificial Intelligence” OurWorldInData.org, 2023.

Foy, Kylie, “AI is smart, but does it play well with others?” MIT Lincoln Laboratory, September 14, 2021.

Kasperson, Anja, and Wendell Wallach. “Now is the Moment for a Systemic Reset of AI and Technology Governance,” Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative, The Carnegie Counsel, January 24, 2023. Podcast.

Kelley, Claire, Samantha Holquist, and Lorena Aceves. “Creating an AI Risk Framework for Education to Protect Students, Families, and Teachers.” Child Trends, November 7, 2024

Korducki, Kelli María. “Don’t Be Misled by GPT-4’s Gift of Gab,” The Atlantic, March 15, 2023.

Léonard, Shasha. “Googe Quietly Installed A.I. to My Workspace. Getting Rid of It Was Creepy.” Slate, January 29, 2025.

Luccioni, Sasha. “The mounting human and environmental costs of generative AI,” Ars Technica, April 2023.

Marcus, Gary. “AI Platforms like ChatGPT Are Easy to Use but Also Potentially Dangerous,” Scientific American, December 19, 2022.

Pomeroy, Robin. “The promises and perils of AI,” The World Economic Forum, Jan. 2022. Podcast.

Sarow, Christopher. “How AI will Change the World,” TedEd, YouTube, Dec. 2022. VIDEO SOURCE

Weil, Elizabeth. “You Are Not a Parrot and a chatbot is not a human: a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this,” New York Magazine, March 1, 2023.

4. Big Data/Big Tech

Amer, Karim and Jehane Noujam, The Great Hack, Netflix, 2019. (subscription needed) Trailer. VIDEO SOURCE.

Carr, Eric. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic, July/August 2008.

Gladwell, Malcolm. “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” The New Yorker, October, 2010.

Herrman, John. “TikTok Is Shaping Politics. But How?” The New York Times, 28 June 2020.

Naughton, John. “The Internet: Is it Changing the Way We Think?” The Guardian, 14 Aug 2010.

Sandlin, Destin. “Is Your Privacy an Illusion?” Smarter Every Day, YouTube, Oct. 2021. VIDEO SOURCE.

Zitron, Ed. “The Rot Economy.” Where’s Your Ed At?, February 9, 2023.

5. Mental Health & Young People

Anderson, Nathaniel, Frederick Zimmerman, and Anna Markowitz. “Child and Adolescent Mental Health Outcomes are Declining Despite Continued Improvements in Well-Being Indicators,” Child Trends, August 3, 2023.

Center for Disease Control (CDC), “CDC Fact Sheet: Mental Health Among Adolescents,” Center for Disease Control, 2020.

Dretzin, Rachel, and Douglas Rushkoff. “Digital Nation.” Frontline season 28 ep 9, February 2, 2010. (free) Trailer. VIDEO SOURCE.

Livingstone, Sonia. “Parenting in the Digital Age.” TEDSummit 2019. VIDEO SOURCE

Male, Mike. “Social Media isn’t the Main Reason Teens are Depressed,” Yes! Magazine, March 2, 2023.

Rausch, Zach, “The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International, Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset.” After Babel, January 3, 2024.

Rosenstein, Barry, and Anne Sheehan. “Open Letter from Jana Partners and Calstrs to Apple Inc.” Think Differently About Kids, January 6, 2018.

Weller, Chris. “Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Raised Their Kids Tech-Free — and It Should’ve Been a Red Flag.” Business Insider, October 25, 2017.

6. Smart Devices & Real Life Interactions

Lombrozo, Tania. “Stop Multitasking! It’s Distracting Me (And You).” Cosmos and Culture, NPR, 19 Aug. 2013.

Manjoo, Farhad. “It’s Time for Apple to Build a Less Addictive iPhone.” The New York Times, January 17, 2018.

Mueller, Pam A., and Daniel M. Oppenheimer. “The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking.” Psychological Science, vol 25 no 6, April 23, 2014, pp. 1159-1168, Sage Journals.

Thompson, Derek, “Why American Teens are so Sad,” The Atlantic, April 11, 2022.

Twenge, Jean M. “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” The Atlantic, September 2017.

Ward, Adrian F., Kristen Duke, Ayelet Gneezy, and Maarten W. Bos. “Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Cognitive Capacity.” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, vol 2, no 20, April 2017, pp. 140-154.

7. Social Media

Bakhsayesh, Navid. The Twisted Truth. Absolute Motivation. YouTube, 2018. VIDEO SOURCE

Bilton, Nick. “The End of the Social Media Era Can’t Come Soon Enough.” Vanity Fair, Nov 23, 2017.

Anderson, Monica, Emily A. Vogels, Andrew Perrin, and Lee Rainie. “Connection, Creativity and Drama: Teen Life on Social Media in 2022,” Pew Research Center, November 2022

Eliason, Nat. “Yes, You Should Delete Facebook.” Medium, April 9, 2018.

Griffin, Andrew. “Facebook Manipulated Users’ Moods in Secret Experiment.” Independent, June 29, 2014.

Jowett, Lucy. Are You Living an Insta Lie? Social Media vs. Reality. Ditch the Label, YouTube, 2017. VIDEO SOURCE.

Orlowski, Jeff (dir.). The Social Dilemma, Netflix, 2020. (subscription needed) Trailer. VIDEO SOURCE.

Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban . “Are Facebook and other social media platforms bad for our well-being?” OurWorldInData.org, 2019.

Rao, Tony. “Social Media is as Harmful as Alcohol and Drugs for Millennials.” The Conversation, June 12, 2017.

Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). “#StatusOfMind: Social media and young people’s mental health and wellbeing,” Young Health Movement, May 2017.

Shakya, Holly B., and Nicholas A. Christakis. “A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel” Harvard Business Review. April 10, 2017.

University of Pennsylvania. “Social media use increases depression and loneliness, study finds.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 November 2018.