Zach Rausch
@ZachMRausch
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Research scientist at NYU-Stern. Chief researcher for Jon Haidt and The Anxious Generation.
Cambridge, mass
Joined August 2020
Here's the greatest example of a town coming together to give all of their kids a play-based childhood: Piedmont Unplugged. They're doing all 4 norms! Check out their "free play Friday" -- kids just meet at a local park! Try it in your town. https://t.co/NqVBJcxtLX
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If you child uses Snapchat, you should know what Snap's own employees and consultants say about the many ways Snapchat harms children. We collect stunning quotations from them (from the many legal briefs) at After Babel: https://t.co/eOnsqLTKo1
afterbabel.com
In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm
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A boys' school makes boy-friendly changes and gets great results! Some are as simple as opening the playground for 20 minutes before school starts. They drew on @LetGrowOrg for our "play club" program https://t.co/BF7uW6ivYT
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New Jersey joins the growing list of states and countries that are making schools phone-free. @GovMurphy says "Enough is enough." It teachers agree, as do most parents. https://t.co/Wh7cAnAW33
inquirer.com
Under Murphy’s proposal for phone-free schools, the state Department of Education would develop guidelines for the state’s more than 600 school districts to develop policies banning cell phones.
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Seth Kaplan and @ZachMRausch have been running a series on the decline of community as a major cause of the loss of play-based childhood, and of mental health. Today's installment is excellent, on a challenge far harder than getting phones out of schools: https://t.co/oGgVPNPh64
afterbabel.com
Although the technological forces driving us apart are powerful, the forces needed to hold us together are right in front of us.
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More evidence that kids need risky play. A review in Nature of research on the benefits of risk, thrills, and free play, featuring scholars I quoted in Anxious Generation: @mbrussoni, Ellen Sandseter. https://t.co/vNeSxx16R4
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TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale, by @JonHaidt
afterbabel.com
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
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Do employees at TikTok think they are harming kids? Many do, at a vast scale. Their own words and internal reports are damning. We collect highlights at AfterBabel: https://t.co/Rau9NZ2lvI
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After hearing from students nationwide, we’re proud to share our Declaration of Digital Rights and Campus Tour Poll. It’s time young people had a say in our digital world. #OurDigitalRights Full declaration: https://t.co/dCLAzcOaBz Our poll: https://t.co/Dj0A99kMkF
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Led by X, the new changes made to the Kids Online Safety Act strengthen the bill while safeguarding free speech online & ensuring it is not used to stifle expression.
At X, protecting our children is our top priority. As I’ve always said, freedom of speech and safety can and must coexist. And as a mother, it’s personal. When X testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last January, we committed to working with Congress on child safety
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Do you have a teen or pre-teen daughter? @karaalaimo lays out 5 conversations you should have with her, about social media. She draws on her book, "Over the Influence." At https://t.co/jM1YTSTnyn
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afterbabel.com
Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters
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🚨🚨 🚨 The House has the chance to protect kids online NOW—they just need to vote. @SenatorCantwell @SenTedCruz @SenMarkey @BillCassidy @SenBlumenthal & @MarshaBlackburn tell @SpeakerJohnson @SteveScalise to stand up to tech companies & protect our kids from social media harms.
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"It turns out that the simple obligation of going to a workplace, shop, or school every day brought positive externalities that are vanishing from our lives." https://t.co/6EJ1UR8XYd
slate.com
There’s still time to save ourselves from the loneliness remote life ushered in five years ago.
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You know I dont travel well, but tues at 6, i'm @endicottcollege in beverly moderating a panel of experts on – “how social media has created an 'anxious generation' & what we can do about it”... real solutions & its free, but plz register: https://t.co/kVgWe53llL
#LutzFoundation
socialmediateenminds.splashthat.com
Join journalist Jim Braude and Zach Rausch, lead researcher of the New York Times bestselling book The Anxious Generation, for a thoughtful conversation with other experts to discuss the harmful...
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An update on the debate over social media reduction experiments. Thanks to @MatthewBJane for the openness with which he’s conducting his work and his responsiveness to critiques. https://t.co/mE9CCpaDrj
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.@Musa_alGharbi is among the most original and exciting thinkers about the rapid moral and sociological changes sweeping across America and universities since the early 2010s. His book comes out TODAY. It's great! https://t.co/IMTo2wJVji
amazon.com
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
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Virginia has developed a brilliant model for getting to phone-free schools. First, Gov. Youngkin issued a well-researched executive order laying out the destination and the justification: https://t.co/bCVmkCKIOf Next, the VA DOE and the governor's wife, Suzanne Youngkin, set
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‼️ Almost HALF of Gen Z wishes social media platforms like X & TikTok didn’t exist, yet their addictive design makes it difficult for teens to disconnect. Learn more about @JonHaidt & @ZachMRausch's research & how #KOSA would protect kids online ⬇️ https://t.co/pHu2Aafc1w
nytimes.com
One way to quantify the value of a product is to find out how many of the people who use it wish it had never been invented.
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Here's a good summary of what France, Australia, Finland, and England are doing to roll back the phone-based childhood. From Katherine Johnson Martinko: https://t.co/9d1yZJJyCT
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Social media companies reproduce social inequality by refusing to regulate their addictive products while pushing them onto other people’s kids, while protecting their own children from them — all in the guise of social justice. They claim that a new bill (KOSPA) will
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