Many studies and experts are pointing that the main reason of the increase of anxiety in our society (particularly in youth, but not only) are the uses we are making of contemporary media, in particular of social media. We are addicted to social media. (…) Many researchers coincide in pointing out that this addition to social media is not accidental, that it has been designed as part of the economic strategies of the social media platforms from their inception. The corporations running the platforms need our attention as long as possible so they can extract as much data from us as possible -and then selling this data to third parties (mostly advertisers, but not only).
Article by Jordi Torrent for Europe Now magazine.
- : https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/07/01/anxiety-in-our-times/
- : jordi torrent
- : Europe Now