{"id":38844,"date":"2025-05-17T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T06:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/could-a-digital-diet-help-me-fix-my-bad-phone-habits\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T06:04:47","slug":"could-a-digital-diet-help-me-fix-my-bad-phone-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/could-a-digital-diet-help-me-fix-my-bad-phone-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a \u2018digital diet\u2019 help me fix my bad phone habits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone Nation by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr vows to help us take control. But can her methods beat the algorithms?<\/p>\n<p>Can you count the number of times you\u2019ve looked at your phone today? Or how often you\u2019ve opened it to do one thing to find yourself doing something else entirely?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019ll have little idea \u2013 merely an inkling \u2013 that it\u2019s more times than you\u2019d hope. Smartphone algorithms are designed to capture our attention and hold it, but a new book written by an academic who studies them promises to help people take back control.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/17\/could-a-digital-diet-help-me-fix-my-bad-phone-habits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone Nation by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr vows to help us take control. But can her methods beat the algorithms? Can you count the number of times you\u2019ve looked at your phone today? Or how often you\u2019ve opened it to do one thing to find yourself doing something else entirely? If you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}