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Tiger C. Roholt, "Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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The Negative Effects of Smartphone Distraction
The author says he was having his own problems with smartphone use. He argues that as we bring smartphones into All of these in-person situations, it strikes me that we don't really understand what's happening. The approach to distract the approach to smartphone distraction based on performance cost doesn't enable us to understand what is happening when we're distracted by our phones and potentially meaningful in-person situation,. Instead of framing smartphone distraction in terms of performance cost Uh, I frame smartphone distraction in Terms of interference with one's active engagement in meaningful activities and then relatedly Interference with the work we do to shape our self identity.
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