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Video: Cal Newport on why you should quit social media *Most Popular*Video

Video: Cal Newport on why you should quit social media

A Channel 4 interview with internet pioneer Jaron Lanier, author of "Ten Arguments for Deleting…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antoine Geiger & Surfake (part 2) Original VideoPatreon

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antoine Geiger & Surfake (part 2)

"Any moment of life becomes a kind of popularity bargaining chip, to show that either…

Elena RossiniJanuary 12, 2019

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antoine Geiger and Surfake (part 1) Original VideoPatreon

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antoine Geiger and Surfake (part 1)

"I decided to represent their faces literally sucked into their phones, which makes them beings…

Elena RossiniJanuary 12, 2019

Behind the scenes photos, filming in Paris Patreon

Behind the scenes photos, filming in Paris

Last week I had a second filming session with photographer Antoine Geiger. We shot B-roll…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

The November Metrics Challenge: Checking In Patreon

The November Metrics Challenge: Checking In

Have you ever heard about the Hawthorne Effect? It's a theory by social scientists, that…

Elena RossiniJanuary 16, 2024

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Ben Grosser on metrics (part 2) Original VideoPatreon

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Ben Grosser on metrics (part 2)

"When you see how many likes you get after you post something online, how many…

Elena RossiniJanuary 12, 2019

The November Realists Challenge: (In)visible Metrics Patreon

The November Realists Challenge: (In)visible Metrics

I never thought I’d say this, but here we go: I agree with Kanye West.…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Ben Grosser on metrics (part 1) Original VideoPatreon

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Ben Grosser on metrics (part 1)

"I noticed that I was obsessed with how many likes I was getting on a…

Elena RossiniJanuary 12, 2019

The October Screen Time Challenge: Your Experiences! Patreon

The October Screen Time Challenge: Your Experiences!

"The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible,…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

What I’m Reading and Watching – October 2018 Patreon

What I’m Reading and Watching – October 2018

The most fascinating articles and videos I've come across this month, while doing research for…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

Production Diary: The Realists origin story Patreon

Production Diary: The Realists origin story

I’m often asked what inspired me to make my first feature-length documentary The Illusionists. Even…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

The October Screen Time Challenge: Checking In Patreon

The October Screen Time Challenge: Checking In

Earlier this month, while on the train on my way to Milan, I noticed a…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: photographer Sara Melotti on “The Perfect Consumer” Original VideoPatreon

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: photographer Sara Melotti on “The Perfect Consumer”

"Social media are designed to make you addicted and keep you addicted."

Elena RossiniJanuary 12, 2019

The October Screen Time Challenge: 4 Strategies Patreon

The October Screen Time Challenge: 4 Strategies

2 hours and 50 minutes. The first time the app Moment showed me the exact…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

Photographer Sara Melotti on Instagram’s culture of fraud Original VideoPatreon

Photographer Sara Melotti on Instagram’s culture of fraud

"Faking popularity has become the norm on Instagram"

Elena RossiniJanuary 12, 2019

Join us on our first Realists Challenge: Screen Time Patreon

Join us on our first Realists Challenge: Screen Time

Imagine this: the year is 2003. Somebody comes up to you and says: "In the…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

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The Realists – teaser

"We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection" – check out the teaser…

Elena RossiniDecember 8, 2021

The Great Instagram Illusion Longread

The Great Instagram Illusion

Category Article Year 2018 Words 3,157 Reading Time 15 m 47 s E. Rossini is…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019