1516 || revisiting the "skinner box"

Make Your Damn Bed · Jul 22, 2025 · 6m

Note: This is a revisitation of a past episode from 2023.

I used uptime.app to check out the brief spark notes version of

"Antisocial Media: Siva Vaidhyanathan's How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy"

(available here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/antisocial-media-9780190841164?cc=us&lang=en&)

and he said: "Facebook is a modern day Skinner Box" which sent me down a rabbit hole to understand what that meant.

So today, I am sharing that with you!

RESOURCE: https://www.simplypsychology.org/what-is-a-skinner-box.html

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