Episode 30 (February 2024): INFORMATION Everywhere All At Once

Beth Patin, Dave Lankes & Mike Eisenberg

Description

Information and technology are a ubiquitous part of our lives. We cannot escape. Many of us walk around with multiple devices, receiving hundreds of notifications, emails, alerts, texts each day. Much like the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once, we are all navigating a multiverse of devices and information sources. We used to talk about and experience the world in real life (IRL) through our digital presences. But is it now the opposite? Do we experience our lives digitally more than in the real world? Does real life exist without the digital nowadays? 

 According to Truelist, in 2023, the average US smartphone user receives 46 app push notifications per day.* Collectively, an estimated 333 billion emails and 34 billion texts are sent and received today the average person is spending 2 hours and 24 minutes on social media while for teens in the US, the average is double that – 4.8 hours. 

 iExhausted? iOverwhelmed and scared as hell? We are too. So, In this episode we are going to take a deep breath, reflect on the situation and share our own practices and strategies, life hacks if you will, for developing healthier habits around our technology use. And of course, we emphasize how libraries can help too.

This episode includes:

• Wazzup?
• AI Watch
• Main Topic
• Awesome Library Thingy

References & Resources

Wazzup?

Chery, Samantha (February 21, 2024) “How the ‘Who TF Did I Marry?’ series took over TikTok,” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2024/02/21/who-tf-did-i-marry-tiktok-reesa-teesa/

Reesa Teesa’s story of marrying and divorcing a man she called a ‘pathological liar’ has had users on the edge of their seats

“Feb. 7, 1926: Carter G. Woodson Launched Negro History Week,” Zinn Education Project (Feb 2024) https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/carter-woodson-black-history-month/

Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) (Jan. 22, 2024). Pop-Up Exhibition of Materials by and about Frederick Douglass at the SCRC, Syracuse University Libraries, https://library.syracuse.edu/news/Pop-Up-Exhibition-of-Materials-by-and-about-Frederick-Douglass-at-the-SCRC/

AI Watch:

Leoffler, Kim (February 20, 2024) “Georgia college student used Grammarly, now she is on academic probation,” FOX 5 Atlanta, https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/grammarly-georgia-college-student-academic-probation-plagiarism-allegations

Arc Search: Find Everything, Faster (2024) https://arc.net/blog/arc-search

“Creating video from text: Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.” (2024) https://openai.com/sora

Tenbarge, Kat (Feb. 22, 2024) “Google making changes after Gemini AI portrayed people of color inaccurately: Gemini created ahistorical images from prompts about history, including depicting people of color as Nazis and U.S. senators from the 1800s,” https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-making-changes-gemini-ai-portrayed-people-color-inaccurately-rcna140007

Main Topic: Information & Tech Overload

Branka (February, 17, 2024). Push Notification Statistics – 2024,” Truelist. https://truelist.co/blog/push-notification-statistics/

“Number of sent and received e-mails per day worldwide from 2017 to 2026,” (Feb 2024) Statista https://www.statista.com/statistics/456500/daily-number-of-e-mails-worldwide/

Arnold M, Goldschmitt M, Rigotti T. Dealing with information overload: a comprehensive review. Front Psychol. 2023 Jun 21;14:1122200. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1122200. PMID: 37416535; PMCID: PMC10322198, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10322198/

Jennifer (Jan 30, 2024). “Average Time Spent on Social Media, MixBloom
https://www.mixbloom.com/resources/average-time-spent-on-social-media-2022

Huff, Charlotte (November 1, 2022) “Media overload is hurting our mental health. Here are ways to manage headline stress,” Monitor on Psychology, American Psychological Association, Vol. 53 No. 8, https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/11/strain-media-overload

Vogel, Kaitlin (Feb 16, 2022). “A ‘Tech Fast’ Might Work Wonders for Your Anxiety, According to Doctors—Here’s How It Works,” Parade, https://parade.com/1333939/kaitlin-vogel/tech-fast/

Karim F, Oyewande AA, Abdalla LF, Chaudhry Ehsanullah R, Khan S. Social Media Use and Its Connection to Mental Health: A Systematic Review. Cureus. 2020 Jun 15;12(6):e8627. doi: 10.7759/cureus.8627. PMID: 32685296; PMCID: PMC7364393. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364393/

Sreenivas, Shishira. Medically Reviewed by Tyler Wheeler, MD (on May 05, 2023). “Digital Detox: What to Know,” WebMD, https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-digital-detox

Awesome Library Thingy

Mody, Nisha (Feb 2024).”I’m your Healing Hype Girl! And I’m your biggest fan ♥,” Nishaland
https://www.nishaland.com/ https://www.nishaland.com/speaking

Trauma-Informed and Relational Care for Libraries – waitlist (2024) https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/d7ehwv69lh

Zalusky, Steve (Feb 16, 2024). “Georgia Weighs Loss of LIS Accreditation in Potential Break with ALA,” Library Journal, https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/georgia-weighs-loss-of-lis-accreditation-in-potential-break-with-ala

New York Public Library (2024). Teen Banned Book Club at NYPL https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/books-for-all/teen-book-club

Digital Public Library of America (2024) “DPLA launches The Banned Book Club to ensure access to banned books,” https://dp.la/news/dpla-launches-the-banned-book-club-to-ensure-access-to-banned-books

Alverson, Brigid (May 02, 2023). “‘Banned Book Club’ Authors Speak Out After Their Work Is Temporarily Banned in Florida,” School Library Journal, https://www.slj.com/story/Banned-Book-Club-Authors-Speak-Out-After-Their-Work-is-Temporarily-Banned-in-Florida

Filed under: Dr. Beth Patin, Dr. Dave Lankes, Dr. Mike Eisenberg, Season 4