COMPAS Conference: The Pleasures and Perils of Personal Technology

February 15, 2019

9:30AM - 5:00PM

Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts

Add to Calendar 2019-02-15 09:30:00 2019-02-15 17:00:00 COMPAS Conference: The Pleasures and Perils of Personal Technology How many times have we heard someone in the tech industry proclaim that their new product is “revolutionary” or “disruptive”? Radical upheaval in the ways we live and communicate is now so frequent that it doesn’t even strike us as unusual. Yet the original iPhone came out only a decade ago, in the same year that Netflix started streaming. Facebook and YouTube came into existence just a few years before that. On the timeline of human history this all happened mere moments ago, and as technology becomes more and more rapidly integrated into our everyday lives, we would do well to take a step back and contemplate exactly what is happening. This conference is part of the 2018-19 Technology COMPAS program investigating the many ways in which our lives have been changed by our technological creations. Schedule of Events: 9:30-11:00am: Session 1: Happier and Healthier? Ethan Kross, Michigan, Psychology Amanda Lenhart, Pew Internet & American Life Project Moderator: Joseph Bayer, OSU, Communication 1:30-3:00pm: Session 2: Closer to Other People? Jessica Vitak, Maryland, Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information Patricia Greenfield, UCLA, Psychology Moderator: Megan Vendemia, OSU, Communication 3:30-5:00pm: Session 3: Smarter and More Productive? Antero Garcia, Stanford Graduate School of Education Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Cal State LA, Psychology Moderator: Steven Brown, OSU, Center for Ethics and Human Values Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts Center for Ethics and Human Values cehv@osu.edu America/New_York public

How many times have we heard someone in the tech industry proclaim that their new product is “revolutionary” or “disruptive”? Radical upheaval in the ways we live and communicate is now so frequent that it doesn’t even strike us as unusual. Yet the original iPhone came out only a decade ago, in the same year that Netflix started streaming. Facebook and YouTube came into existence just a few years before that.

On the timeline of human history this all happened mere moments ago, and as technology becomes more and more rapidly integrated into our everyday lives, we would do well to take a step back and contemplate exactly what is happening. This conference is part of the 2018-19 Technology COMPAS program investigating the many ways in which our lives have been changed by our technological creations.

Schedule of Events:

9:30-11:00am: Session 1: Happier and Healthier?

Ethan Kross, Michigan, Psychology
Amanda Lenhart, Pew Internet & American Life Project
Moderator: Joseph Bayer, OSU, Communication

1:30-3:00pm: Session 2: Closer to Other People?

Jessica Vitak, Maryland, Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information
Patricia Greenfield, UCLA, Psychology
Moderator: Megan Vendemia, OSU, Communication

3:30-5:00pm: Session 3: Smarter and More Productive?

Antero Garcia, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Cal State LA, Psychology
Moderator: Steven Brown, OSU, Center for Ethics and Human Values

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