On this special episode, we interview the creative and passionate minds behind the new documentary Your Attention Please: Sara Robin (Director/Producer) and Jack LeMay (Editor/Writer).

Your Attention Please (available now on Apple TV, Amazon, and Doc+) explores how social media platforms are deliberately designed to be addictive, and what happens when families, educators, and young people fight back.

In this conversation, we talk about…

• the power of film to change political sentiment.

• the expertise of Gen Z and their potential to take power back.

• the global pervasiveness of social media harms.

• the throughline of engagement-based business models, through social media into AI.

• the evolution from the attention economy to the intimacy economy.

• the symbolic value of the Meta settlement and the necessity of stronger federal legislation.

• the possibility of algorithms towards positive social connection and empathy.

• the exploitation of surveillance capitalism.

• the intended impact of the film upon lawmakers, young people, and parents.

• the sacrifices and benefits of going phone-free.

• the accessibility of action and the collective strength of doing little things.

Join the movement at yourattentionplz.com.

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