Technology, like power, is neutral. It is how we use it that determines when it is harmful or helpful. And, like most things, social media is a strong mixture of both. Our time will begin with a recorded conversation between Cedar and Batia, a high school senior, talking about her and her friends’ perspective and experience with social media–both the positives and the negatives for them as teenagers. We will use this conversation to talk further about the challenges of distraction and addictiveness and ways to work with these in a power-conscious way. What awareness, strategies, skills can we share with each other?
Cedar Barstow and Batia Rose Wilson
Cedar Barstow is the founder and executive director emerita of Right Use of Power Institute. She has had a long interest in the power of the internet and social media–and how it impacts our sense of personal power in relationships, how it impacts our use of time, and how it impacts our understanding of truth and reality. She is concerned for herself and for the next generations. Batia Rose Wilson is entering her senior year in high school and has been engaging with social media and focusing on how to use it in healthy, life-affirming ways. Both Cedar and Batia live in Boulder, Colorado.
