Great Gatsby & the Roaring Twenties: Question 3

Short article about Deep Angel, a digital AI tool that can delete objects from photos.

Bowles explores the current trend of parents requiring child care providers to hide technology from the children.

This 2-min video by law professor and cultural commentator Amy Chua offers a quick overview of the issues of tribalism and group identity in politics.

A longer form article similar to the video.

A short article about a photography exhibition illustrating the lives of wealthy Americans over a 25 year time period.

An essay by a Silicon Valley parent about the pressure of privilege and the effort to define what really matters.

This article addresses how parenting anxiety in wealthy communities manifests in the pursuit of educational and academic outcomes.

Discusses the pros and cons of social media in general and Facebook in particular.

Looks at research exploring the relationship between wealth, social class, greed and compassion.

In this short opinion piece, Gulati questions why and with what consequences we focus on documenting our experiences, rather than simply experiencing our lives.

A very brief introductory article and link to an in-depth interview with a former Facebook executive, who reflects on Facebook’s effect on society.

In this post about designing better New Year's Resolutions, Mandybur points out some ways in which the concepts of reinvention and self-improvement are leveraged for money-making purposes.

The author presents a documented analysis of the major ethics themes in the book including, for example, moral growth, Gatsby's life of illusion, the withering of the American Dream, and the parallels between the 1920s and the 1980s.

Brief examination of current studies that document a “growing dependence on apps and social media affects physical, mental and emotional health.”

An article about how “The scandal could break down misconceptions about money, merit, and status.”

This essay examines recent shifts in the amount of control celebrities’ exert over their representation in the media.

The title really says it all.

This short piece documents new trends in ultra-wealthy inheritors seeking to both increase their wealth and achieve charitable goals.

Reiss uses a psychological lens to examine why Americans are fascinated by reality television programs.

An article describing recent suicide clusters in Palo Alto and the efforts being made to understand the cause and address the underlying issues.

Examines the recent trend of college women who use specialized online dating sites to find wealthy older men.

This long-format essay reviews how different thinkers have questioned the nature of equality, and explores what implications this has for societies that, like America, value equality on some level.

This short piece compares the feelings that come with receiving reactions to emails or social media posts to the “rush” that drugs can create.

Author Sales investigates how a growing number of young people are selling their bodies online.

Memoiristic book review of Anna Weiner’s San Francisco/Silicon Valley memoir, Uncanny Valley, which critiques the tech world’s reputation for exciting, purposeful, socially-conscious employment. Book excerpt at https://nplusonemag.com/issue-25/on-the-fringe/uncanny-valley/

“In this extract from her new book, Rachel Sherman sets out to understand how wealthy parents decide to spend their money – and enters a tortuous world of moral conflict and self-doubt.”

In this Opinion-Editorial based in research for her book, Sherman documents the guilt and coping mechanisms of rich New York residents who do not want to identify with their socio-economic class and hope to find self-worth outside of it.

This is primarily a photo essay offering information about the various visual symbols used to signal group membership at the 2021 insurrection in the U.S. Capitol.

An assistant editor analyzes Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and argues that the social dynamics explored in the text both mirror and explain the behavior of President Trump.

This long-format essay examines the issue of student stress and how schools and communities are combating it.

Examines the recent trend of college women who use specialized online dating sites to find wealthy older men

This article examines how the smartphone affects the first generation to grow up with it, arguing that when smartphone ownership surpassed 50% of the population, radical changes in teen attitudes and behaviors surfaced.

A look at the parenting trend of limiting childrens’ access to technology as a “red flag” for the addictive, harmful nature of digital devices, apps, and habits.

This short article takes a psychological approach to the topic of why humans seek to belong to groups.