ART, TECH, CULTURE & CRISIS… THE YEAR IN BOOKS: A PICK OF FAVORITES

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELFIES

“It is very similar to climate change – people feel an individualised responsibility to fix something that is a collective action problem. The harm occurs collectively not individually – that is one of the problems that countered the way that my story has over-influenced the individual at the expense of articulating the collective harm and over-complicates this, like the duty of the individual to solve these problems in the same way – as though your consumer choices are going to save the world. No! As an individual, you cannot do that. Like the privacy and the data abuse and children and digital media – it is the same: you, as a parent, can do what you can for your kid, but you can’t solve these problems in your family.”