Almost daily, someone online is encouraging us to get offline. Social media influencers peddle stillness and urge us to stop doomscrolling—but also to subscribe. Whenever a major news event, law enforcement and government officials beg us to get off the online rumor mill. Whenever something horrible happens, we rush to social media to see what the other side is saying. On any given day, there is offensive, false, and objectionable content that we interact with via screens. Very often, we are horrified. We should be, but less with others and more with ourselves.
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Elizabeth Stice
Elizabeth Stice is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic University, where she also serves as the assistant director of the Frederick M Supper Honors College. She is the editor in chief of Orange Blossom Ordinary.
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