BLOG: 'Social media: Benefits vs Harm'
Recently @KeeleUniversity's Research and Support programme helped @resbiteapp with neuropsychology research π into the effects of social media.
Read more here - https://t.co/pAUzFYuyfw
We made it as a finalist for the public vote on Debut Sessions. If you believe in what weβre trying to do please help us get funded by voting for us.
We are pleased to announce the start of a partnership with Staffordshire University.
The Staffs Digital Innovation Partnership will support us in the build of the app by providing us with academic human resources and additional funding for providing a positive social impact.
You might just be surprised by how long you are using your mobile device. Open up Screen Time (Apple) or Digital Wellbeing (Android). What is your daily average for the week so far?
#screentime#digitalwellbeing#keepitreal
Isn't it about time that software designers in big companies implemented a code of ethics as part of their brand?
Without a set of company-wide social principals, the best design team in the world could still facilitate societal harm (as is often the case within big-tech).
MIT professor, Sherry Turkle, is the single most influential academic that has inspired our cause. Her books Reclaiming Conversation & Alone Together are MUST reads if you want to know about the real social impact of advancing tech. Now she has a new one coming in 2021 :)
Q: What is Resbite and where is it?
A: It's an app launching in 2021 that is a closed (private) social network. It allows you and your household to connect with friends and family and then helps you plan real life, tech-free activities with them.
#RealSocialTech#KeepItReal
Want to know what motivated us to make the Resbite app?
New Netflix documentary βThe Social Dilemmaβ explores some of the serious societal problems caused by big tech and current (anti)social technology.
https://t.co/bfwLiWRMxN
#KeepItReal#RealSocialTech#Tech4Good