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Fifteenth #20: On algorithmically aggravated addiction, with Dr. Romy Gad el Rab

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10:20am, and I have already picked up my phone 16 times. I have been awake four hours and have used my phone for an hour and a half. These numbers will only go up as the day progresses. The smartphone is a misnomered cultural artefact that has — as an

10:20am, and I have already picked up my phone 16 times. I have been awake four hours and have used my phone for an hour and a half. These numbers will only go up as the day progresses. The smartphone is a misnomered cultural artefact that has — as an internet-enabled computational device augmented with spatial, audio, visual, and biometric sensors — grown to become an extension of ourselves. Our smartphones are portals to parasocial worlds promising never-ending stimulation. They are more exciting than the friends sitting across our dinner table; their hashtag filtered version of famous…

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