Archive - After Babel

The Real User Interface: Recovering Our Neighborhoods

Although the technological forces driving us apart are powerful, the forces needed to hold us together are right in front of us.

Jan 14 •

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale

Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words

Jan 9 •

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Parents, It’s OK To Do Less

Why parenting less might be the best thing we can do for our children

Jan 6 •

Katherine Johnson Martinko

Where the Magic Doesn’t Happen

How technology can interfere with moral formation at school, church, and home

Jan 2 •

December 2024

The Year The Phone-Based Childhood Began To Reverse

Dec 31, 2024 •

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Smash The Technopoly!

Neil Postman, Marshall McLuhan, and The Anxious Generation

Dec 19, 2024 •

Applying The Bradford Hill Criteria To Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health

Anna Lembke discusses how the nine criteria used to demonstrate causality in the Surgeon General's 1964 advisory on smoking can improve our thinking…

Dec 17, 2024 •

Congress Must Pass KOSA By Christmas. The Only Obstacle Seems to be Meta’s Influence

Now that Elon and X have addressed the last free speech concerns, the House leadership should allow it to come up for a vote.

Dec 12, 2024 •

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The Tech Industry’s Playbook To Prevent Regulation

The Tech Industry is using an old trick – shifting the responsibility entirely to us

Dec 11, 2024 •

Social Media is Disproportionately Hurting Girls

Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters

Dec 4, 2024 •

Kara Alaimo, PhD

Scott Galloway Explains Why Age Gating Social Media Is Both Necessary and Doable

The companies can do it, but they're incentivized to fight it

Dec 2, 2024 •

November 2024

Why Australia is Setting a Minimum Age of 16 for Creating a Social Media Account

A member of the Australian Parliament lays it out for us

Nov 26, 2024 •

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