Comments on: News like your therapist would tell it? https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/04/08/news-like-your-therapist-would-tell-it/ MAS S.67 // Spring 2020 Tue, 19 May 2020 20:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: EthanZ https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/04/08/news-like-your-therapist-would-tell-it/#comment-14 Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:57:38 +0000 https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/?p=774#comment-14 The intention behind this is extremely worthwhile – being overwhelmed by news is a real thing, and having someone thoughtfully curate the day’s news is a very reasonable response to the phenomenon. I was initially going to complain that this is a “fixing the news” intervention, not a “fixing social media” one, but the two have merged to the point where that distinction isn’t always helpful. You might consider something that greys out news stories on your social media and reminds you to read your newsletter instead.

A key to doing this well as a project is going to be actually DOING it. Not necessarily the A/B testing, but certainly doing a demo newsletter with real news and links to show the tone. Excited to see it.

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