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POST-ELECTION RESOURCES

POST-ELECTION RESOURCES

Happy, sad, in bed, jumping for joy, wanting to fight, needing answers, wanting to feel connected...however you feel is OK. Below are a few links to help with whatever part of the process you are in..

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisNovember 11, 2016post-election resources, machines, automation, social media echo chambers, echo chambers, Jess DavisComment

Get Unplugged: The Why & the What

Get Unplugged: The Why & the What

We’ve grown up with endless information at our fingertips (literally), and now expect the world to be our oyster as we morph into so-called adulthood.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisJanuary 2, 2016new years resolutions, pew data, addicted to phone, addicted to technology, Digital detox, digital addictionComment

Facebook I Love You. But You’re Messin' With My Hormones

Facebook I Love You. But You’re Messin' With My Hormones

Dopamine causes seeking behavior. Our neanderthal ancestors searched for food, water and shelter. Today, many of us have those basic needs, so we fill our desire to seek with other sources of information: enter social media.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisDecember 31, 2015digital detox, digital addiction, social media, facebook, folk rebellion, social media detox, facebook deactivate Comments

Print vs. Post: Photographic Magic

Print vs. Post: Photographic Magic

Photos that you can feel, smell and pass down for generations through albums that get a little heavier each year.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, Counter CultureJess DavisDecember 22, 2015print vs post, film is not dead, instant gratification, memories, screens, instagram, facebook, analogComment

Having "the Talk" With Your Screen Addicted Parents

Having "the Talk" With Your Screen Addicted Parents

Personally, I wish I could say my parents were not addicted to their technology. Lately it appears to rule their world

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisJuly 10, 2015screentime, screen sense, digital addiction, digital detox, unplug the drug, parents, Technology, tech addict, Tech Effects, folk rebellionComment

Heads Up 7up

Heads Up 7up

Unless you want to volunteer to yell to a bus of people to pick their heads up, we have to start with ourselves.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsMaya CarmosinoJune 9, 2015heads up 7 up, people looking at their phones, folk rebellion, look up, Victoria Nachman, Unplugging, Digital detox, screentime, iphoneComment

Generation Screenface

Generation Screenface

Our children have grown up as a generation that is more accustomed to playing on screens than racing toothpick boats down gutters when it rains.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisMay 28, 2015nature for kids, nature deficit disorder, children and tech, screens, folk rebellion, Unplugging, addiction, Tech EffectsComment

In Favor of Drinking Coffee Instead of Instagramming It

In Favor of Drinking Coffee Instead of Instagramming It

There’s something about coffee shared with friends, sipping out of a real mug and having life-giving conversations.

Mindfulness, Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter CultureJess DavisMay 12, 2015instagram, coffee, connection, documenting life, instagramming coffeeComment

The Power of Accountabilibuddies

The Power of Accountabilibuddies

If the best way to make friends is to be one, let’s be brave and ask our friends to put. the. phones. down.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 28, 2015unplugging, folk rebellion, look up, Tech Effects, tech addictionComment

Fuck eBooks

Fuck eBooks

I like my books to live, to be crumpled and rumpled and drawn on and eaten over.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisApril 24, 2015ebooks, kindles, folk rebellion, Janne Robinson Comment

Tech Addiction vs. Drug Addiction

Tech Addiction vs. Drug Addiction

Is tech addiction the only addiction out there without an upside?

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisApril 13, 2015tech addiction, tech addict, screen sense, screen, unplugged, addiction, digital addictionComment

Don't Lie. You didn't really LOL.

Don't Lie. You didn't really LOL.

LOL is the tech version of polite noise. Did you really mean IDGAF?

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisMarch 27, 2015instagram, Technology, Digital detox, digital divide, digital addiction, polite, irlComment

I'm Mad As Hell & Why You Should Be Too

I'm Mad As Hell & Why You Should Be Too

Imagine if Steve Jobs created the iPad with a warning label on the packaging similar to cigarettes or diving into 3 feet of water.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisMarch 5, 2015folk rebellion, huffington post, jess davis, screens, children and tech, screen sense, digital detox, digital divide, elon musk, kurt schilling, parenting Comments

This “Internet” Thing Has Gone Far Enough

This “Internet” Thing Has Gone Far Enough

From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s like discovering fire and using it to light our farts.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisMarch 3, 2015break the internet, the dress, kim kardashian, social mediaComment

Social Media is the Edited, Sugar Coated, Selective Parts of Our Lives

Social Media is the Edited, Sugar Coated, Selective Parts of Our Lives

We just feed each other shit and hope no one calls us on it. Figure if we're all doing it, it's okay.

Unplugging Manual, Tech Effects, The FactsJanne RobinsonFebruary 26, 2015social media, news feed, filter, unplug the drug, netflix depression, janne robinson, folk rebellion, narcissm, personal branding, fake, john mayer photoshop, selfies, filtered lifeComment

Let's Quit Looking Down, and Start Looking Up

Let's Quit Looking Down, and Start Looking Up

Show up, differently by letting the people in your life know that they get first dibs, simply by being physically present in your life.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, Mindfulness, The FactsJanne RobinsonFebruary 16, 2015Janne Robinson, look up, soul, roald dahl quote, eye contact, man missed whale, man on phone misses whale, missed opportunitiesComment

This Valentine's Day DONT WHIP IT OUT

This Valentine's Day DONT WHIP IT OUT

Honey, hold out for more than a dick pic.

Tech Effects, Unplugging Manual, The FactsJess DavisFebruary 11, 2015tinder, tinder dating, dick pics, los angeles, new york, romance, chivalry, dating, real life, tech dating Comment

A Moment to Remind You

A Moment to Remind You

How you spend your days is how you spend your life. In the US, people spend an average of 7.4 hours per damn day looking at screens.

Tech Effects, The FactsJess DavisFebruary 2, 2015letter writing, texting, ereaders, writing letters, internet addictionComment

I Was Told I Parent Like the 80's. I Took It As A Compliment.

I Was Told I Parent Like the 80's. I Took It As A Compliment.

I left my kid in the car. Cue bunched panties.

Tech Effects, Mindfulness, Counter Culture, The FactsJess DavisJanuary 16, 2015helicopter parenting, nanny policeComment