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Key takeaways from How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
This visualization explores how each generation's media consumption is changing amid the frenzy of pandemic-induced quarantines.
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BuzzFeed News
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
BuzzFeed News
20+ min read · From 2019 · Some claim millennials are lazy and entitled – unable to do basic tasks that older adults have just gotten on with for years. Anne Helen Petersen, senior culture writer for Buzzfeed News, rejects those labels. Milllennials like herself, she argues, are merely trying their best to navigate trends like skyrocketing student loans and an underpaying, perk-free gig economy. Millennials will likely not be the only ones who feel that her insights and observations are almost painfully on the nose.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 1123, including Pamela J. Hobart, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Tiago Forte, Kelsey Jones, hiten.eth, Chris Messina, Mark Kaigwa, Liliane Ferrari ™, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Anita Zielina, Brittany Berger, Mathew Ingram, Marie-José Kolly, Austin Kleon, Richard Gutjahr, Dao Nguyen, Guy Kawasaki, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Adam Singer
MIT Technology Review
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society
MIT Technology Review
8 min read · From 2017 · Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself.
Reader View · Shared by 724, including Steven L. Johnson, Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social 💉🖖💚🎓, Azeem Azhar, Thomas Power, Nir Eyal, Luzius Meisser, Chris Messina, Victor Tolosa, Philip Stehlik, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Jane, ⎝Stéphan Lam⎠, Dominik Grolimund, Nico Luchsinger, Taylor Pearson, Ines Bieler, Bjorn Larsen, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Sachin Rekhi, Esther Schindler
VICE
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule
VICE
5 min read · 2021-07-14 · A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule.
Reader View · Shared by 938, including Oliver Raduner, Christopher Sikkenga, Chris {he, they}, Dirk Spannaus, Jonathan Kogan, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Marsha Collier, Steve Keen, Gerd Leonhard, Stever Robbins, Gabriele, Martin Ford, Merkstatt, Arin Basu, Tactical Tech, Pat Kua, David Wallace-Wells, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Stowe Boyd
The Guardian
Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound
The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2018 · When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age writes Maryanne Wolf, author of Reader, Come Home
Reader View · Shared by 772, including Mark Little, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Katja Evertz, Ines Bieler, Massimiliano Aroffo, Mark Kaigwa, Aamir Raz, Alex Barrera, Michael Carroll, Stephanie A Kowalski, Aleksandra Wazgird, Joe Germuska, Nick Lüthi, Ste Davies, Brian Solis, Fabricio Teixeira, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, fernand0, Jane, Lorenz König
The Verge
Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society
The Verge
4 min read · From 2017 · ‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’
Reader View · Shared by 252, including Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, John Battelle, Simon, يونس بن عمارة, Thomas Power, Daniel Dennett, Pieter van Diggele, Tris Hussey, Klaus Eck, Bjorn Larsen, Dominik Grolimund, Mark Kaigwa, Dominic Grzbielok, Tillmann Allmer, Ceferino Díaz, Herbert Bay, Kim Dik, Mathew Ingram, Yvette Dubel, Galen King
Our World in Data
Nuclear weapons: Why reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation
Our World in Data
3 min read · Mar 3rd · The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war.
Reader View · Shared by 273, including Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Max Roser, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The Atlantic
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2017 · More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 1337, including Jonathan Haidt, Justin Tiehen, Josh Elman, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Balaji Srinivasan, Damien Van Achter, Chris Messina, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, Nick Lüthi, Stephen C Sanders, Howard Getson, AfroMum, Mathew Ingram, Liliane Ferrari ™, Gerd Leonhard, Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social 💉🖖💚🎓, Jane, Stowe Boyd, Azeem Azhar
VICE
What Happens When Modern Society Rebrands an Ancient Philosophy?
VICE
20+ min read · 2021-06-29 · Everyone from Silicon Valley billionaires to self-help enthusiasts is repurposing Stoicism for our modern age, with results that are good, bad, and highly indifferent.
Reader View · Shared by 561, including Massimo Pigliucci, Marcus Raitner, Damon Young, Gabriele, Brittany Berger, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, Angie Hobbs
Guardian politics
Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
Guardian politics
9 min read · 2021-09-20 · Nearly eight out of 10 of young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system. How did that happen?
Reader View · Shared by 244, including Marsha Collier, Grzegorz Wapiński, Merkstatt, Prof. Devi Sridhar, Tim, Gerd Leonhard, Jansnet
