CBC - Spark with Nora Young - How to Stop the Scroll and Enjoy the Summer - Tackling technology overuse with a toolkit and a challenge to digitally disengage (Podcast (53:49))
This podcast includes interviews with a Privacy Law professor Gaia Bernstein and Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatry professor. Dr. Anna Lembke is featured in the first half of the podcast (23:30 minute mark) with interview with Gaia Bernstein following (24 minute to 45 minute mark).
Dr. Anna Lembke provides a great overview of the:
• dopamine effect
• ‘false-self’ - where people can begin to feel they only really exist online with the real world being a place where they feel impoverished, and
• strategies to reset a healthy dopamine reward pathway.
Gaia Berstein discusses:
• tech industry’s strategies to keep people online longer
• how the shift of tech use responsibility should move from the individual to the tech industry
• actions happening at the national/international level (Quebec and the Seattle school board), and
• actions that can be done at the community level.
Aired: June 23, 2023