Our Relationship With Media & Attention

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July 11, 2016 a project of ServiceSpace Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. - Sherry Turkle - Our Relationship With Media & Attention Mary Rothschild studies the effects of media on young children. She tells this story, "Each child was happily kneading their dough, these two, two-and-a-half to five-year-old children, and making a bread animal or something. I thought, "Wow. It's been like four minutes and they're all quiet!"Then this little girl next to me looked up and said, "Mary, the Lion King video is too loud." So I thought somebody was playing music in their car, or something. So I listened and then I said: "I can't hear it." The little girl said, "It's in my head." That's when I really started working with the nonprofit because I couldn't not do this work. Media is here to stay, but are there things we need to do around our consumption of media? { read more } Be The Change Do the ways you and your family interact with media sufficiently reflect your highest priorities? If not, consider what measures you can take to change this. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News How Happy Brains Respond to Negative Things How To Retrain Your Brain With Three Words The Dogs that Protect Little Penguins 19 Uplifting Photos That Capture The Human Spirit Bhutan's Dark Secret to Happiness Our Shortened Attention Span & 3 Ways To Stay Focused 34 Affirmations For Healthy Living 34 Images of Heart-Warming Humanity DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 239,510 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More