Reclaiming Conversation in the Age of AI
Sherry Turkle on AI, empathy, and the fight for human connection| After Babel
Sherry Turkle on AI, empathy, and the fight for human connection| After Babel
They will only truly change it when the law requires them to do so| After Babel
Let’s press pause on AI chatbots for kids| www.afterbabel.com
Young people can use technology to connect directly while shunning the apps designed to hook us| www.afterbabel.com
How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis| After Babel
Introducing the TAPS: Toolkit for Assessing Phones in Schools| After Babel
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.| After Babel
What happens when we outsource our children’s emotional lives to chatbots?| After Babel
How local digital platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook are fraying the fabric of neighborhood trust — and what we can build instead.| www.afterbabel.com
Although the technological forces driving us apart are powerful, the forces needed to hold us together are right in front of us.| www.afterbabel.com
It's easier to create “play-based childhoods” if we can simultaneously create vibrant “community-based childhoods” to support them.| www.afterbabel.com
Don’t just go phone free: Start a Play Club at your school too.| www.afterbabel.com
A quiet shift since 2015 has left America’s lower-performing students even further behind| After Babel
How new monetization models changed gaming, and what parents need to know| After Babel
5 Layers that Prepare Our Kids for a Mature Digital World| www.afterbabel.com
What to do if you’ve already given a child under 14 a smartphone — or allowed social media before age 16.| www.afterbabel.com
Fives types of errors in a recent meta-analysis bias the analysis in the same direction: that there is no effect of social media use on mental health| www.afterbabel.com
A mother and former teacher sums up in 3 minutes what happened when schools became "Silicon Valley profit centers”| www.afterbabel.com
Why lawmakers should act on a “rational basis review” of the available evidence, rather than waiting for definitive proof.| www.afterbabel.com
What to say to other parents (or yourself!) to put bullying fears in perspective| www.afterbabel.com
Why a 30-Day digital detox may be the best gift you can give your kids—and how to make it work| www.afterbabel.com
I didn't have to say, "get off your phone," once...| www.afterbabel.com
The largest-ever expert survey finds consensus about rising mental health problems, along with general agreement about some causes and potential policy responses| www.afterbabel.com
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time| www.afterbabel.com
In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm| www.afterbabel.com
A groundbreaking UNESCO book on the damage wrought by ed-tech during COVID school closures around the globe| www.afterbabel.com
Sophie Winkleman lays out the reasons why screen-based schooling is interfering with education and harming children’s development| www.afterbabel.com
A 160-year-old solution to a modern mental health crisis| www.afterbabel.com
Keeping them as safe as necessary, not as safe as possible.| www.afterbabel.com
Why phone-free schools must also be smartwatch-free| www.afterbabel.com
Five problems that call into question the authors’ conclusion that phone free schools don’t improve mental health or academic performance| www.afterbabel.com
A therapist’s firsthand account working in an adolescent mental health unit| www.afterbabel.com
A preview of Nicholas Carr’s new book Superbloom| www.afterbabel.com
Five steps adults can take to create a better relationship with their phones| www.afterbabel.com
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words| www.afterbabel.com
Why parenting less might be the best thing we can do for our children| www.afterbabel.com
For Teens, Scandinavia is No Longer The Happiest Place On Earth.| www.afterbabel.com
Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters| www.afterbabel.com
The companies can do it, but they're incentivized to fight it| www.afterbabel.com
How Churches can help roll back the phone-based life| www.afterbabel.com
Advice from the author of Childhood Unplugged| www.afterbabel.com
Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.| www.afterbabel.com
Dr. Murthy is right. The evidence of widespread harm to adolescents is now strong.| www.afterbabel.com
The way some researchers use the GWP can explain why they fail to find effects of digital technology on youth mental health| www.afterbabel.com
This Summer, Let’s Reclaim Our Time (Starting June 14th)| www.afterbabel.com
Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.| www.afterbabel.com
Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy.| www.afterbabel.com
“Her need for me to catalogue her life is slowly draining my soul"| www.afterbabel.com
Reflections from a bereaved mother| www.afterbabel.com
Suggestions from Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar, which could have been implemented long ago| www.afterbabel.com
75,000 UK parents have come together to give their kids a smartphone-free childhood| www.afterbabel.com
"Phones? No. We had each other."| www.afterbabel.com
Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.| www.afterbabel.com
Two major problems with a review in Nature| www.afterbabel.com
A smartphone-free childhood is easier than you think.| www.afterbabel.com
Jean Twenge responds to the Nature review of The Anxious Generation| www.afterbabel.com
The book comes out today. By the end of 2025, we will roll back the phone-based childhood.| www.afterbabel.com
Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.| www.afterbabel.com
This is not just “Kids these days”| www.afterbabel.com
Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis| www.afterbabel.com
Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational| www.afterbabel.com
Researchers need to stop using the Global Burden of Disease study when analyzing mental health trends| www.afterbabel.com
Chapter 3 of The Coddling explains how the oppressor/victim mindset created fertile ground for hate| www.afterbabel.com
Since the 1970s, boys have been pushed away from the real world and pulled into the virtual.| www.afterbabel.com
A guide to the laws and policies proposed around the world| www.afterbabel.com
Freya India explains how algorithms act as conveyor belts, transporting girls to dark and extreme places| www.afterbabel.com
Only smartphones plus social media can explain the international collapse in the early 2010s.| www.afterbabel.com
Allowing more unsupervised free play is among the most powerful and least expensive ways to bring down rates of mental illness| www.afterbabel.com
The research is clear: Smartphones undermine attention, learning, relationships, and belonging.| www.afterbabel.com
Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.| www.afterbabel.com
It’s not just anxiety, depression, and self-harm.| www.afterbabel.com
