ABC News to Air Diane Sawyer 2 Hour Special on the Impact of Screen Time, Technology & Social Media on Families
ABC NEWS ANNOUNCES DIANE SAWYER TELEVISION EVENT
DOCUMENTING THE IMPACT OF SCREEN TIME, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA ON FAMILIES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
The Two-Hour Special Report Features Solutions for
Families
‘ScreenTime: Diane Sawyer Reporting’ Airs Friday, May 3
(8:00 - 10:00 p.m. ET) on ABC
Today, American adults spend the equivalent of 49 days a
year on their phone and tablets. For six months, Sawyer and her team traveled
across the country talking to families, teachers, doctors, and even tech
insiders to pursue questions, answers and solutions. From coast to coast, a
question: people love the wonders of technology but have they become too
consumed with the little screens in their pockets?
After sending out a call to families across America,
Sawyer and the team received messages from parents including a mom from the
Midwest who said she felt so disconnected from her kids who were always on
screens. ABC News brought in cameras and documented her family’s use of social
media throughout a weekend, and therapists from the renowned Gottman Institute
guided the family towards change.
The report highlights experiments including one showing
the potential impact on babies and toddlers when parents are on their screens
for only two minutes, actors posing as job candidates who are distracted by
their phones and how this behavior creates distrust in hiring managers, and
college students feeling pressure to retouch and edit photos for social media
in an endless quest for likes and comments and its effect on self-esteem.
As games like Fortnite and Overwatch explode in
popularity, the average teen gamer now spends almost 12 hours a week playing
video games. How do parents know that their kids are in trouble? The special
reviews the latest research and interviews top experts to help guide parents
through this highly-charged minefield.
Studies have found that students do better when phones
are not a distraction in the classroom. ABC News visits schools across the
country to report on the variety of solutions that help students learn without
the distraction of technology.
70% of teens use social media multiple times a day. The
report shows new research that suggests there can be a hidden psychological
toll from this selfie habit.
The special talks to experts who say tech companies
design habit-forming apps to encourage users to stay on the screen and
interviews experts about online privacy, and the buying, sharing, and selling
of personal data.
Apple CEO Tim Cook sits down with Sawyer to talk about a
range of topics, addressing families concerns about screens, and what he calls
a crisis in online privacy.
The ABC News team searches for practical solutions for
families. “ScreenTime: Diane Sawyer Reporting“ airs Friday, May 3 (8:00 – 10:00
p.m. ET) on ABC.
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