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From its mental health effects to how huge tech companies work to earn our attention, these are 18 of the best TED Talks about social media that we’ve found.
- Is Social Media Hurting Your Mental Health? - Bailey Parnell
- Quit Social Media - Dr. Cal Newport
- Live in The Moment: Delete Social Media - Ryan Thomas
- What I Learned from My Social Media Fast - Amber Quinney
- Social Media Is Making Us Unsocial - Kristin Gallucci
- The Dark and Light of Social Media - Farzana Qasimi
- How Social Media Makes Us Unsocial - Allison Graham
- How Social Media Shapes Identity - Dr. Ulrike Schultze
- Socially Silent: My Relationship with Social Media | Siena Wescott-Toi
- A Year Offline, What I Have Learned - Paul Miller
Social media expert, public speaker, and award-winning digital marketer Bailey Parnelldelivers a thought-provoking talk on the unintended consequences of social media on mental health. She offers strategies on how to craft a better user experience online and concludes her talk with a focus on solutions rather than problems. RELATED: 10 Underrated B...
Dr. Cal Newport is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and he begins by talking about the onset of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook while at college and quickly moves on to the two primary goals of his presentation. Dr. Newport emphasizes that he's better off without social media, and he tries to convince audiences that there is no ...
At 2017's TEDxAshburnSalon event, the-then Loudoun County High School senior, Ryan Thomas, presented an action-oriented approach to deal with the hyper integration of social media into everyday life. He began by urging viewers to purge social media as a way of reclaiming their identity. Whilst Thomas acknowledged the wonders of social media marketi...
In her TEDxYouth@Buffalo talk, Williams-Franklin Foundation awardee Amber Quinneyoffers a youth-centered approach to social media usage. She draws attention to its multiple benefits and emphasizes that she isn't anti-social media. RELATED: 10 Biggest Moments In The Space Race The key takeaway from Quinney's talk is that there has to be a positive p...
Strategic digital marketer, Kristin Gallucci, passionately engages the audience on the experience of art and history being replaced by their digital representation as a result of social media. She talks about social media's negative impact on social issues using the term - Slacktivism i.e. the failure of social media awareness to translate into rea...
Movies like The Social Network and Younger couldn't have existed before social media and offer commentary on its all-pervasive impact on users' lives. They shed light on privacy concerns and the darker side of big tech and share thematic relevance with 2019 TEDxCaseyspeaker, Farzana Qasimi's talk. Qasimi encourages her audience to use social media ...
Social media historian Allison Graham heavily employs irony to drive her point home. Using facts and stats in her presentation, she talks about the impact of social media on socialization. RELATED: 10 Things You Need To Know About The Social Media Site Mastodon Graham opines that humans have become asocial, thanks to the growing impact of social me...
Professor in Information Technology and Operations Management at Southern Methodist University, Dr. Ulrike Schultze delivers a fascinating talk on how social media shapes users' identities. She describes the human-technology entanglement as a co-constitutive relationship, in that, humans construct technology and vice versa. Using inferences from he...
On April 1, 2022, Haileybury UKpupil, Siena Westcott-Toi, spoke about finding the ideal balance with social media. She mentions how social media originated as a way to connect with people from all over the world and gradually led to issues of cyberbullying and societal pressures. Westcott-Toi deems herself worthy of addressing people because of the...
American technology journalist Paul Miller begins by saying he pulled the plug on social media for a year because he felt overwhelmed by emails. Whilst Miller reiterates he owes his livelihood to the internet, he felt he wasn't accomplishing much by tweeting and absorbing the vast sea of information online. He mentions publishing his internet hiatu...
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- Why You Should Quit Social Media – Cal Newport. Have you ever considered taking a break from social media or quitting all together? Perhaps you have some internal objections or are worried that perhaps social media is actually fundamental in our society?
- What Obligation Do Social Media Platforms Have To The Greater Good? – Eli Pariser. This is an incredibly interesting talk that looks at social media as a societal construct that lacks structure and ‘rules’ and therefore may influence how people behave.
- Why Social Media Is Reimagining Our Future – Bryan Kramer. While we are bombarded with messages about why social media is bad, Bryan Kramer breaks through this noise of social media selling and capturing leads by telling stories with no intention other than telling a story.
- Social Media Isn’t Real (Even If It Looks Like It Is) – Samantha Cohen. This talk by mental health advocate Samantha Cohen reminds us to remember that social media isn’t real, that Instagram feeds are carefully curated and highly edited images and lifestyles from ‘influencers’ and from normal people like you and me.
Social media. One of the big goals of a TEDx event is to spark conversation – and this shouldn’t be exclusive to your live event! Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are vibrant online forums for your guests and others to discuss the topics and ideas you’ll be sharing before, during, and after your event.
TED Talks that make sense of this brave, new, virtual world. 3 talks. The race for your attention. Attention: everybody wants some -- social media, tech companies and more. Watch these talks to better understand the ways these entities try and get on your radar.
Feb 19, 2020 · As such, there must be a strategy for adapting and keeping social in our daily lives. Luckily, these five TED Talks provide a better understanding of the digital landscape we now call home. 1. Eli Parser: 'What Obligations do Social Media Platforms Have to the Greater Good?'
Every day, more young and naive children join social media platforms. Unfortunately, these platforms have not been tailored to help the development of minds, instead, they have been created to make money for big companies by constantly engaging with the platform.
