22 min
Digital wellbeing — or how to be ‘smart’ with your smartphone // Business Skills The Linklaters Podcast
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Episode 1: The Linklaters Ideas Foundry
Nicola Raw and Ian Rodwell
Is your phone the first and last thing you check every day? Do you find yourself constantly reaching for your phone, or worse still, feel uncomfortable when you’re without it? If so, this is the episode for you. Join us as we explore what digital wellbeing is and why it is so crucial to both our work and non-work lives. We delve into the effects of social media on our cognitive processing and look at some practical ways to ensure we are in control of our devices — and not the other way around.
Key sources for this episode include:
Matthew Walker – Why We Sleep
Catherine Price – How to break up with your phone
Ward et al. (2017) ‘Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity’, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2(2).
Episode 1: The Linklaters Ideas Foundry
Nicola Raw and Ian Rodwell
Is your phone the first and last thing you check every day? Do you find yourself constantly reaching for your phone, or worse still, feel uncomfortable when you’re without it? If so, this is the episode for you. Join us as we explore what digital wellbeing is and why it is so crucial to both our work and non-work lives. We delve into the effects of social media on our cognitive processing and look at some practical ways to ensure we are in control of our devices — and not the other way around.
Key sources for this episode include:
Matthew Walker – Why We Sleep
Catherine Price – How to break up with your phone
Ward et al. (2017) ‘Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity’, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2(2).
22 min