Digital Parenting and Digital Ethics on Datascience
Digital Parenting and Digital Ethics: Breathing Life into Our Screen Times
It is with great honor that I share with you my knowledge and thoughts regarding a crucial topic that has become a central part of our lives, particularly in the digital dominated era we are navigating - Digital Parenting and Digital Ethics.
As someone with expertise in e-commerce, internet advertising, wellness technology and lately, NFT and digital art, I have always been driven to deliver user-centric solutions. I consider myself a digital parenting activist, promoting mindfulness and well-being in the age of technology.
Understanding the Effects of Screen-Time
Excessive screen time has become a shared concern for all, from young children to adults. Oftentimes due to this, we forget to pay attention to our *breathing*, a basic yet incredibly essential part of our overall well-being.
Years ago, during a rather stressful time in the tech industry, working 18-hour days in front of a screen, I experienced physical pain and a noticeable decline in productivity and creativity. Unfortunately, this is far from an isolated case, as children, teenagers, and adults alike are experiencing similar struggles due to screen time. Alongside this, we have also seen a rise in social disorders such as a decline in emotional intelligence and an increase in anxiety and depression.
Such is the concept of *screen apnea* or *email apnea*, which is the holding of breath or shallow breathing while working or playing in front of screens.
Screen Apnea: A Red Flag
Screen apnea triggers a fight or flight stress state in our body, which increases the level of cortisol, the stress hormone. This phenomenon is common among people regardless of age. Even young children and teenagers may experience this due to the increased usage of digital screens.
There's an urgent need to address this issue. Thankfully, technology has also provided us with solutions that track our sleeping and breathing patterns, which can help manage and regulate screen apnea.
Bringing Mindfulness to the Forefront
Breathing exercises, meditation, and mindfulness are gradually gaining popularity as efficient ways to maintain mental well-being. For children, specific apps have been designed that encourage mental well-being via breathing exercises.
These visually engaging apps serve as helpful reminders for children to maintain good posture, draw attention to their breathing, and enhance their overall mental and physical well-being in a fun and appealing manner.
The Attention Economy and Digital Ethics
However, as we dive deeper into this digital era, it is critical to examine the ethical considerations involved. The "currency" of our time is attention, and there is a fierce competition among social media platforms and digital marketing to grab their users' attention and keep them engaged on their platforms.
Take for instance the example of social gaming where triggering the feel-good hormones, dopamine and serotonin, has become a marketing strategy to increase user engagement. This brings us to the pressing ethical issue of consent. Are we ensuring the privacy and protection of our younger users? Are we creating and designing ethical digital products for them?
Digital Parenting in the Digital Age
It becomes even more critical when we must navigate the world of digital parenting. There's a need to protect our children from the potential harms of digital exposure while educating them about the responsible use of the internet and social media.
Part of this education includes teaching children about their digital rights and how to responsibly consume digital content. The concept of digital consumption must be explored, particularly in the context of young users who are most vulnerable to the effects of digital over-exposure.
In Conclusion
While the digital world offers numerous opportunities and conveniences, it's crucial to balance these benefits with a mindful awareness of our overall well-being. Technology can bring us closer together, improve access to information, and create new avenues for creativity and exploration. At the same time, let's ensure that we are breathing correctly, maintaining our mental well-being, and navigating the digital world ethically.
Remember, the breath is the bridge that connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. So let's continue to breathe, mindfully and healthily, even in the face of evolving digital landscapes.
Video Transcription
It's a great honor to be with you today in this session, Digital parenting and Digital Ethics on data science. So let me introduce myself. First. My main expertise areas are e-commerce, internet, advertising, wellness technology, and lately NFT art and digital art.And I can say that I'm someone who loves to combine the data story and the human story. So I have a track record of keeping the user experience at heart and experimentation,
pushing start ups to scale labs. Other
than that, I like design native trainings, author of two books,
e-commerce and Braids
with me, a proud mom and becoming a digital parenting activist day by day, a breath worker, meditation and mindfulness teacher. I live in Germany around Frankfurt with my husband and my son. And I have many entrepreneurship stories and minimal responsible from the wellness tech business development.
And in traditional NFT agency, we create NFT formats
and projects
with a multidisciplinary approach in entertainment, business, arts, culture, well-being, Blockchain and immersive technologies. So in addition, I'm the founder of Breathing Game for kids and teens and adults. So today we will play some breathing games to balance our digital well-being those games are we find play with the kids and teens for all ages. So
before because of those
excess usage of screen time, our eyes are very, very.
So take a deep breath, your nose sound like movie our eyes
and uh close your eyes
with your hands. Yes, you and that's what when
you're doing by yourself, you can also do it.
It's also nice.
So just close your eyes and breathe in through your nose,
deep deep breath. So mm now make it with your hands. So
put your hands, close your
eyes, with your hands, cover your eyes, with your hands and take a deep breath.
Make himself
feel your breath goes away. So how are you
feeling? You wanna
share your your
experience? So with the chat, OK, so things today. So I'm going to introduce your digital reading quality, some reading exercises, parenting versus digital parenting relationship between the digital nutrition. I think you might in this is this, this can be some exercises
and breathing for fun. So uh
digital screens working in front of the computer surfing on social media rarely limit
our breathing capacity. And this applies to my story. Honestly,
in my first years in tech industry, very stressful deadlines being in front of the screen 18 hours a day and no digital fresh breaths in between projects. So eventually I have noticed that I have
started to lose my attention very quickly
and uh physical pain, especially neck and back having
drastic
decrease in my productivity, creativity as well as I love it. And this was nearly
15 years ago.
So as the new gift of living with screens, more and more Children and teenagers and adults start to experience some breathing problems. So during the time we spend in front of the screen, we read
consciously
so that our well being really gets really dirty. So re work becomes a trend in different geographies. And even the books about the
subject is getting number
one. And uh so kids, teens and teens might have some technology related respiratory problems, language and speech disorders and also poor quality posture.
It's called text mec. They're making like this all the time
and uh eating disorders, some issues, weight gain attention deficit A DH D even panic attacks, anxiety and
depression, as well as cyberbullying online grooming,
exposure to pornography, fear of missing out narcissism instead of gray. So lack of dimensional, emotional intelligence and nature intelligence. So this brings us the concept of screen apnea or email apnea. I believe that as much as we get closer to the digital
world we forget to read. So
researchers, seven months
of talking clinics to get a
sense of what happens to our physiology.
Psychology
on shell breathing and breast.
Look at digital screens,
email apnea or screen apnea. So which means temporary holding of breath,
breathing while working or playing in front of screen. Uh
She noticed that only 80% of the people rarely tested, had emails
20%. So he we do.
So the
nails or snail were dead. High performance athletes, a test, even a test bomb meditations
and
regular and D and she questioned these people. She learned it told keeping techniques to manage their and emotions.
So in the meantime, many experts demonstrated
breath holding contributes to stress related disease. The becomes
acidic, the kidneys begin to reabsorb sodium. And as the balance of
oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitric oxide becomes our biochemistry is trauma. So
some I I learning memory and cognition, sleeping weight feeling.
So with screen acne go into a fight
or flight or stress
state freest state and we crave cortisol.
The stress.
So
session may be screen apnea and and really rethink games really work, regulate dysfunctional breathing flow and adults and I advise you to check your
screen up when they use the screen, check your
stew because you will be very
so must countries the
students and the teachers have to use most and even in the
garden breathing with masks may
occur some indications about this
fun patterns, not for the Children with breathing problems or the healthy ones.
That's the concept of apnea and screen apnea together and oh my
God, do not worry, sir.
Thanks to technology, there are some wearables to solve those sleep apnea and screen apnea problems. So before when we snore at night, our partner could have really poked us or squeezed our noise now we can track our sleeping and breathing habits, full information and then advices.
I find it very useful
actually
uh working with meaningful data for our health.
So
meditation and mindful are also getting popular everyday for Children. I work with global kids wellness apps and breath up kids is one of
them. That kind of apps also aim to mental pollution caused by
digital,
the
children's healthy, digital well-being through breathing exercise
like a tech fairy. The right side tech reminds kids to regulate their postures so straight to your back. And what do you think when they look at this? So to make the f capacity of the kids? So I will show
some uh some fun exercises
right now here, right? And but it steamed, steamed uh exercise
or fun version of, you know what we will make
so clockwise, we will and
we will in Toronto
five. And yeah, we
make our, we turn our hands counterclockwise and then make it to feel that breath ends. OK? Like a steers. We will rarely balance with our
breath actually in this let's drive, breathe in and turn your wrist. 12345, sound clockwise the rest. So you
can do it a couple of times kids and also with the Children at home. And plus uh you can
also ankles with your ankles with your feet, just it's a, it's really, it can flow over the breath uh in your body. Yeah, the
attention economy and the uh digital ethics. There is a fierce competition unfortunately, between social media campaign potential is a limited resource. So we know that and to me,
happiness is also related kind of because
and unfortunately, currency exchange is our attention.
This is the basic marketing tool for marketers for years.
But attention flights will
spend on those platforms equals you know that.
So I will introduce you Jenny
or a writer of the book X book U
I designer.
And in her book, how
resisting the attention economy,
nothing for, for
doing what you truly
want the most products either for yourself or so are
you like to think about it when it comes to the attention
economy and digital? So of course, Zon Tech too, uh aiming
that uh to make sustainable user health
influencing certain actions which benefits the apps
via infinite scrolling and buttons, news feed. So triggering the hormones, trigger the hormones, dopamine and serotonin. These are the feel good hormones, you know, you work social media and
also social gaming. I buying on social gaming. This is going hooch
and as
Celtic values, keep an eye on this area. So media based colors, algorithm like
sharing content
challenges. OK. Doke. Tell me 10 years old girl in tiktok, her five years old sister in the box on her throat photograph
for that stupid breathing child.
So have been and parents have to look
after their Children in real life and as well as we have to teach our kids how to use the cell phone, internet
and social media. So harry tools in terms of parental control
apps, in order to keep a hidden eye on their Children.
Question of is this ethical or not
to open another subject like digital ethics and
digital ethics is a field of that help technology
shape and it our political, social and moral
existence uh following
and over the last
three years, a real explosion in emerging technologies,
artificial intelligence of nature. That's all we are really doing with data
Child morning is now more screen than ever.
And app developers and develop gaming
industry are droves to this
exciting market. So the younger generation deserves the best. And up in ad has made them discerning
customers. So creating
a valuable
user experience for a child is as complex and in as when designing a typical app for an adult
and designing digital products for kids. So designing digital products
for kids, walks through
digital product designs, including
research, concept, designing testing and iterating all while aiming to build specific Children. So what about constant likes? Most click sleep stories, most click
on a digital book art. So should we keep our Children exposed to data signs and make them eat all
glitter around or some organic chocolate that
we can even so digital consumption versus
oh the kids and teens, I
good fortune. And according to the news to build an Instagram for kids under 13.
So
is this really necessary,
is this really
necessary?
Rarely necessary?
As a mother, I would like to ask this question to Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram and PJ P who worked at Google. And he's work, she's working with a uh a Mosari right now where she always saw the search giant
Children for product like youtube kids. So if you excuse question, is it necessary? So to me, they called
area. So like a formula called
added production is
equals to impact
for co
production. So as an example, look at breath with me project. So this is the world's first collectibles can city and air and FTS around the world. So you can buy the air
of Central Park, Moulin Rouge,
Trevi Fon, even Piccadilly Circus and hundreds of locations in an ft marketplace in open
sea. So
and you can breathe with me. So focusing on the realm of real and digital worlds, whats to generate the inspirational projects for now and the future and this is why we should experience our kids and
teens as digital parents ideal.
My book Breathe with me starts with the amazing words of China Tan. He says breathe, maybe you would like to discuss these words and this concept with the with the kids and teens
around you with your own
mind. Thank you for listening. I hope you have enjoyed the session. I'm very googleable. So you can uh reach me with my name and nor for from everywhere. So if you have any
questions, happy to answer. So stop sharing. So,
so if somebody wants to share something or
oh, ask a question, I think
we have still some time like a minute or so. And uh thank you Maria Liza, she's here and she said it's such a cool idea. I love it. Oh I'm happy that
you liked it. So there are actually many things that we could do with the kids also with the teens uh to, to
really uh regulate their breath hygiene. Uh And I know as tech women and, and especially if you have Children around and uh so it's not easy to, to, to manage our time, uh really that efficient time,
uh optimistic time with
our Children. So this is these are at least those with the breeding games,
you can do it. Uh oh you're very welcome, Christina. Yeah, I, I hope
it's uh it's also it will be uh beneficial for the rest of
the uh audiences. Um So I
think we're going to finish if you don't have any questions and enjoy the rest of the women tech uh uh Global conference today. Uh Today was the day of the inspiration. That's why I wanted to give some inspirational aspects also about the digital
parenting and digital ethics. Uh other than all the algorithms and uh all the clicks and all those user experience stuff that we are really facing with. Mm Yeah.
Thank you very much for listening and bye from Frankfurt.