The Human Screenome Project Will Capture Everything We Do on Our Phones

January 15, 2020
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Basu, Tanya. 2020. “The Human Screenome Project Will Capture Everything We Do on Our Phones.” Quoted in MIT Technology Review, January 15.

"Screen time is a popular carry-over measure from the context of a TV-centered era, developed around health and parenting concerns," says Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist who studies technology use at the University of California. Still, Ito isn't sure a "screenome" will answer the key question of how screens shape our activities, interests, and social engagements. It won't include all the offline information that is driving the online behavior, she says.

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