# Échappatoire numérique

2015-08-01

> This is why many of our youth turn to technology. They aren’t addicted to the computer; they’re addicted to interaction, and being around their friends. Children, and especially teenagers, don’t want to only socialize with parents and siblings; they want to play with their peers. That’s how they make sense of the world. And we’ve robbed them of that opportunity because we’re afraid of boogeymen.

> We’re raising our children in captivity and they turn to technology to socialize, learn and decompress. Why are we blaming the screens?

> Blame Society, Not the Screen Time (cache)

danah boyd tape là où ça fait mal. La connexion comme seul moyen d’évasion et d’échange. Et pendant ce temps là :

> In their book Man (Dis)connected: How Technology Has Sabotaged What it Means to be Male, Philip Zimbardo and Nikita D. Coulombe explore the “modern meltdown of manhood” which they attribute to absent fathers and the male addiction to screen gadgets. They argue that this trend towards “extreme escapism” has led to socially stunted males who glean fulfilment from the virtual world rather than the real one.

> It took the death of my wife to realise how much I missed out on as a dad (cache)

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