Digital Mindfulness

In this episode, I talk with professor Feona Attwood about the impact of online porn on people and society

In this episode, I talk with Jodi Forlizzi from Carnegie Mellon about the ways technology and design can help us live better lives

We talk with David Ryan Polgar about the effects that technology is having on people, culture and particularly teens.

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In this episode, we speak with Professor Neema Moraveji about the role of calming technology and the work of his company Spire.io. If you have an iOS device visit www.spire.io/r/digitalmindfulness

In this episode host Lawrence Ampofo speaks with the academic and broadcast journalist Aleks Krotoski about her work on television, academia and how social psychology and the web interrelate.

In this episode, I speak with the director of the Persuasive technology lab at Stanford University and one of the pioneers of persuasive technology research, Professor BJ Fogg.

In this episode, I talk with the entrepreneur and digital expert Steven Van Belleghem about the ways companies can increase their human moments while going through digital transformation

The benefits of meditation have been widely documented. Learning to live in the present moment decreases stress, improves our memory and makes people less irritable. In this episode of Digital Mindfulness, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Judson Brewer. Dr. Brewer is the director of research at the Center for Mindfulness and he is also Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical school. Dr Brewer is an internationally recognised leader in mindfulness training and has also developed mindfulness programmes for the treatment of addictions including app-based treatments.

This is a special edition of the Digital Mindfulness podcast, as I talk with Tristan Harris, who works on behaviour and ethics for Google.

Have you ever thought of blogging as a means to help to support and discover your spiritual side? In this very special episode, I speak with the author and publisher Margaret Cahill about how her commitment to her Blog became a spiritual practice and even helped to improve her physical health.

At Digital Mindfulness, our singular focus is on how we can help other people and organizations humanize their lives in this digitized world we live in. This is in contrast to other views of our techno-society in which the machines are projected to eliminate jobs and make human beings redundant.

In this episode, my guest, Jack Hooper from technology company Doppel, and his team have created just such a wearable device from a body of research they are calling Empathic Technology. Having just raised seed finance for their wearable product from their recent Kickstarter campaign, I talked with Jack about their campaign, their new product and where he thinks this new area of research can eventually go.

How do we thrive online? In this episode, the author, TEDster, philosopher, Fellow of the Saïd Business School and The School of Life In London Tom Chatfield, and I speak about his varied perspectives on how we can thrive in a digital age. In this amazing, wide-ranging talk, Tom and I discuss how our interactions with technology can be made more meaningful by embracing the innate qualities that make us uniquely human.

In this episode, I speak with the author, thinker and technologist Linda Stone about the various ways technology can enhance the quality of our lives. In this fascinating discussion, Linda explains from her very unique perspective, how technology can degrade the quality of our lives and what we can do to manage that.

In this episode of Digital Mindfulness, I speak with the Educator and Research Psychologist, Dr. Larry Rosen about his work and his perspective on the psychology of technology.

During the time Digital Mindfulness has been live, one thing has concerned speakers more than any other topic we have spoken about; that in an age of constant digital connection, the available time for our own for our own thoughts and our own company is eroding by the day. The human need for solitude, very different to loneliness, is essential and helps people to creatively process complex thoughts, increase intimacy and bring peace of mind.

Smoking, sex, food, alcohol, tobacco, narcotics; these are all things we know are addictive in some way but the addiction to the Internet? In this very special episode I talk with Dr. Kimberly Young about the reasons why people become addicted to the Internet and what they can do about it.

What does it mean to be a Mindful Cyborg? What are the effects of mindfully approaching digital experiences? In this episode, Klint Finley* joins us. A long-time writer for Wired Magazine, he is also one of the hosts of the popular podcast Mindful Cyborgs, which focuses on “mindfulness, cyborgs, contemplative computing, bio/lifehacking, quantified self netocracy and digital duality”.

In this episode, I talk with UC Irvine Professor Gloria Mark about her work with digital distraction and attention.