Key topics: brain, smartphone addiction, no-mobile-phobia, habit formation, exploitation of dopaminergic system by "social media"

Main focus of our discussions will be put on analysis of impact of digital media on psychology of children and adolescents.

At the beginning of the semester students will divide into small groups and each group will be asked to choose, read, understand and reproduce one experiment known from scientific literature.

Session 6 :: Studies to understand, explain or replicate

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  • Repetitio: Cognitive sciences, cognitivism, cognitive blindness and the unicycle clown, cognitive principles and biases
  • Minilectio: Confirmation bias
  • Group work: "Digitizing literacy"
  • Initiatio to experiments of interest
  • Evaluatio

Digital Culture :: Cognitive Context :: Handouts

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Stuff to read.

Experiments

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Please choose one among following experiments on presentation/realisation of which You shall participate. 

Contacts

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Daniel Hromada


  • daniel at udk-berlin.de

  • Room 313, Medienhaus

  • Sprechstunden 12:30 - 13:30


Tutors & SHK


  • Astrid Kraniger a.kraniger@udk-berlin.de

  • Nikoloz Kapanadze nikoloz-kapanadze@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de

Net links

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  • http://bildung.digital.udk-berlin.de/prolegomena2

  • https://kastalia.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/4161

  • Astrid will give You Your kastalia login / password next week

Credits & co.

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  • You can validate the course either as Wissenschaften / Theorie fach or Studium Generale course

  • in both cases I can give only 2 credits *

  • those who opt for the Studium Generale option and do particulary well can get note "eins" auf SG-schein


* but we do not study because of credits, do we ?

Course validation

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For all:


  • attendance at least 60% of seminars obligatory

  • participation in the group work


For those who want to validate this course as Studium Generale


  • if You visit more than 10 out of 12 sessions and do the group work, You're done

  • if You visit more than 7 courses, You'll have to do additional compensation work

Program

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Date Topic
12.4 Introduction
19.4 NO COURSE (Karfreitag)
26.4 How to read scientific articles
3.5 Google, Brain & co.
10.5 Cognitive sciences
17.5 Cognitive psychology
24.5 Abstracts
31.5 OPTIONAL COURSE (Christihimmelfahrt Brückentag)
7.6 Memetic theory
14.6 Theory of multiple intelligences
21.6 Developmental aspects
28.6 Socrates & Gestalt
5.7 Symposion
12.7 Summa Summarum

Session 3 :: Google, Brain & co.

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  1. Repetitio: Sessions 1 (Introduction) and 2 (How to read scientific articles)
  2. Group work 1 : Carr (2008) Is Google making us stupid ?
  3. Lectio: Brain
  4. Group work 2 : Small et al. (2009) Your Brain on Google: Patterns of Cerebral Activation during Internet Searching
  5. Anticipatio

ACHTUNG :: Today's session will be most probably the most difficult one.

Bibliography

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Manfred Spitzer - Digitale Demenz; Smartphone Epidemy

Session 5 :: Cognitive psychology

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    1. Repetitio

    2. Summing up Small et al.

    3. Lectio: cognitivism, mind, cognitive processes, cognitive biases, cognitive principles, embodied cognition

    4. Your evaluation of this course

    5. Work: Digitizing literacy: reflections on haptics of writing

    6. Experiment 1

Session 7 :: Memetic Theory

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  1. Evaluation

  2. Experiment choice

  3. Theory of memes

Groups

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Group 1 - Aaron, Philip
Group 2 - Frederico, Hannes
Group 3 - Astrid, Maja, Kohei
Group 4 - Adam, Patrick
Group 5 - Ozcan, Akif, Anna-Luisa

Session 7 :: Theory of multiple intelligences

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  1. Repetitio

  2. Theory of multiple intelligences

  3. Experiments

  4. After smartphone: towards a new digital education artefact 

Introductory video

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Goals

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  • Introduce You to cognitive sciences

  • Show You how to work with scientific literature

  • Get our digital habits under control

  • do some experiments

  • learn something from You and have fun

F.A.Q.

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If You have any course-related questions, please ask them here.

(use the "Create child knot" button below to pose a new question)

Session 4 :: Cognitive context

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  1. Repetitio

  2. Group work 1: Interpreting Small et al. (2009)

  3. Lectio: Cognition, cognitive sciences, cognitive functions, cognitive psychology

  4. Group work 2: Sentiment detection in "Meet Your iBrain" article

  5. Your evaluation of this course

  6. Experiment 0

Session 2 :: How to read and understand scientific papers.

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Presentation by Dr. M. Mihalilkova.

Session 8 :: Developmental aspects

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  1. Repetitio (Theory of multiple intelligences)

  2. Some administrative stuff (we meet in Medienhaus garden next week, 12th July course etc.)

  3. Your experiments

  4. Developmental aspects

  5. The nightmare videos of children's Youtube

  6. After smartphone: towards a new digital education artefact 

Problematic smartphone use and relations with negative affect, fear of missing out, and fear of negative and positive evaluation

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ABSTRACT
For many individuals, excessive smartphone use interferes with everyday life. In the present study, we recruited a non-clinical sample of 296 participants for a cross-sectional survey of problematic smartphone use, social and non-social smartphone use, and psychopathology-related constructs including negative affect, fear of negative and positive evaluation, and fear of missing out (FoMO). Results demonstrated that FoMO was most strongly related to both problematic smartphone use and social smartphone use relative to negative affect and fears of negative and positive evaluation, and these relations held when controlling for age and gender. Furthermore, FoMO (cross-sectionally) mediated relations between both fear of negative and positive evaluation with both problematic and social smartphone use. Theoretical implications are considered with regard to developing problematic smartphone use.