The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for the DIGHUM lecture series — regular online events that discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism.
Speaker: Jonathan Haidt, New York University’s Stern School of Business, USA
Moderator: Allison Stanger, Middlebury College, USA
Something changed in the lives of children in most Western nations who were born after 1995. The first alarm to ring was their mental health, which began to drop sharply around 2012. It is now clear that compared to previous generations, they are suffering from multiple additional deficits, such as in attentional capacity, education outcomes, social development, sexual development, and even spiritual development. In this talk I lay out the only theory yet put forth that can explain why this happened in so many countries at the same time – the early 2010s. I show how a “great rewiring of childhood” occurred in which the “play-base childhood” for which humans evolved was rapidly replaced by the “phone-based childhood.”
About the Series
A roughly bi-weekly seminar offers presentations and panels from worldwide thought leaders. It is typically held on Tuesday afternoons at 17:00 CET.
The bidt and the TU Wien are cooperation partners for the DIGHUM lecture series.
Digital Humanism deals with the complex relationship between man and machine. It acknowledges the potential of Informatics and IT. At the same time, it points to related apparent threats such as privacy violations, ethical concerns with AI, automation, loss of jobs, and the ongoing monopolisation on the Web.
For this reason, a new initiative — DIGHUM lectures — started with regular online events to discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism.
We will have one or more speakers on a specific topic followed by a discussion, or panel discussions, depending on the topic and speakers. The exact dates will be announced at least two weeks before.
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