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Quote: Tech Billionaire Parenting

"Melinda Gates's children don't have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her…

Elena RossiniJanuary 10, 2019

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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 7, 2019

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antoine Geiger & Surfake (part 2)

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

Elena RossiniDecember 20, 2018

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Antoine Geiger and Surfake (part 1)

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

Elena RossiniDecember 12, 2018

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Behind the scenes photos, filming in Paris

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

Elena RossiniNovember 23, 2018

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The November Metrics Challenge: Checking In

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

Elena RossiniNovember 19, 2018

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Ben Grosser on metrics (part 2)

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

Elena RossiniNovember 16, 2018

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The November Realists Challenge: (In)visible Metrics

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

Elena RossiniNovember 6, 2018

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Ben Grosser on metrics (part 1)

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

Elena RossiniNovember 4, 2018

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The October Screen Time Challenge: Your Experiences!

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

Elena RossiniOctober 31, 2018

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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 RossiniOctober 30, 2018

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Production Diary: The Realists origin story

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

Elena RossiniOctober 25, 2018

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The October Screen Time Challenge: Checking In

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

Elena RossiniOctober 23, 2018

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

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

Elena RossiniOctober 19, 2018

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The October Screen Time Challenge: 4 Strategies

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

Elena RossiniOctober 16, 2018

Sara Melotti Instagram fraud – The Realists

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Photographer Sara Melotti on Instagram’s culture of fraud

"Faking popularity has become the norm on Instagram"

Elena RossiniOctober 12, 2018

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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 RossiniOctober 9, 2018

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The Realists – teaser

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

Elena RossiniOctober 1, 2018

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The Great Instagram Illusion

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

Elena RossiniOctober 1, 2018