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Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Utah social media law is ambitious, but is it enforceable?sweeping social
media legislation passed this week is an ambitious attempt to shield children and
teens from the ill effects of
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03-25-2023
Craig A Durfey
To whom it may concern.
The State of Utah passed a bill to address: Utah’s sweeping social media legislation passed this week is an ambitious
attempt to shield children and teens from the ill effects of social media and empower parents to decide whether their
kids should be using apps like TikTok or Instagram.
Below a book was mentioned in the news story thought be helpful to review below link.
UNWIRED: GAINING CONTROL OVER ADDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. (socialemotionalpaws.com)
https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2023/03/25/ap-utah-social-media-law-is-ambitious-but-is-it-
enforceable/#.ZB-IfPlDnms.gmail
UNWIRED: GAINING CONTROL OVER ADDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. (socialemotionalpaws.com)
Utah social media law is ambitious, but is it enforceable? – St George News (stgeorgeutah.com)
Utah social media law is ambitious, but is it enforceable? (socialemotionalpaws.com)
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Unwired
Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
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Our society has a technology problem. Many
want to disconnect from screens but can’t help themselves. These days
we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures
to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly
powerless to help their children.
Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way
out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we
autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral
responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing
lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates
why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It
describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and
legislative halls.
Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop
this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain
control.
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Amazon
Barnes & Nobles
Reviews
“Unwired was nominated as a Next Big Idea Club Must Read
Book.” (Read More)
The Next Big Idea Club
“Bernstein skewers the tech industry… in her damning debut…
This trenchant clarion call rings loud and clear.” (Read Full
Review)
Publisher Weekly
“Mixing expertise and passion \[Unwired\] sets an agenda to
rein in the tech behemoths that have run rampant for years.”
(Read Full Review)
Kirkus
“In this important and powerful book, Gaia Bernstein shows
us how to reclaim our power and our humanity from the Big
Tech cartel that have intentionally addicted us to their devices
and platforms.”
Nicholas Kardaras, PhD, Author of ‘Glow Kids and Digital
Madness,’ and former Clinical Professor, Stony Brook
Medicine
“Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired offers a compelling roadmap for
tackling one of our most pressing problems: the irresistible
pull of technology. Over the course of our lives, we and our
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children will spend between fifteen and twenty years glued to
our screens. As Bernstein shows, though, there are regulatory
remedies at hand to help us retain our time and our
wellbeing.”
Adam Alter, Professor of Marketing and Psychology, NYU
Stern School of Business, author of ‘Irresistible and Drunk
Tank Pink’
“Unwired is a compelling, accessible, and vital intervention
into the overuse of technology. Instead of offering overly
simplistic self-help strategies that are doomed to fail,
Professor Bernstein rightly targets the manipulative design of
technologies and the need for us to work together to hold the
tech industry accountable. This book vividly blends personal
stories with the latest research and lessons from history to
paint a clear picture of our struggle with screens and what it’s
going to take to improve things. Everyone should read this
book.”
Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law at Boston University and
author of ‘Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design
of New Technologies’
“Inviting and intelligent, Gaia Bernstein’s extraordinary book
masterfully combines honest personal reflections about her
experiences with the creep of digital tech together with a
sobering academic account of our collective public struggles
to deal with technologies designed to addict, manipulate, and
even control our behavior. Throughout, Bernstein maintains a
can-do attitude that inspires change.”
Brett Frischmann, The Charles Widger Endowed University
Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova
University School of Law
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“Unwired is a powerful rejoinder to voices that would seek to
minimize the threat technological manipulation poses to
human freedom. But Gaia Bernstein goes beyond a mere
accounting of the harms and proposes systemic changes that
can help us take back control. Comprehensive in its scope and
clear-eyed in its analysis, Unwired is an indispensable guide to
the landscape of digital technology reform. Anyone who cares
about the future of technology should read this book.”
James Williams, author of ‘Stand Out of Our Light’
Thank You
Craig A Durfey
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