Technology Life Balance and Addiction: Gaming, Pornography, TV Addiction
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- 1. Andrew Sears President, City Vision University Executive Director, TechMission Technology, Life Balance and Addiction
- 2. Week 1
- 4. Goals for the Course At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. Media Nutrition. Monitor media usage and set boundaries with technology ensure their own sobriety and a healthy diet of media, technology and relationships and to enable others to do the same. 2. Causes. Communicate the various causes of technology related addictions. 3. Reflection. Communicate how technology- related addictions and media have affected them.
- 5. Goals for the Course 4. Boundaries & Recovery. Develop a plan for themselves and others with resources, strategies and technology tools to protect individuals, families and communities from technology-related addictions. 5. Addiction Treatment. Understand the resources available to get help if you or others you know face issues of technology-related addictions and to be equipped to make referrals and as appropriate help with peer support groups within your ministry context.
- 6. “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.” -Alan Kay
- 7. Technological Culture Agriculture 3000 BC 2000 BC Writing (alphabet) Jesus 1 AD 1200 BC Clock (prayer time) Books (printing) 1450 1850 Photograph Microphone Telephone 1875 1890 Cars Airplanes 1905 1940 A/C Home Computer 1975 1990 Internet Cell Phone 1995 2004 Facebook iPhone 2007 Teleporters 2040 Not Technology Cool Not Technology Cool Foreign Conflict Foreign 2020 Jetpacks Source: John Dyer Presentation at CCCU, Dallas, March 27, 2015
- 8. Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Digital Natives Grew up with a given technology Fluent in given technology Digital Immigrants Did not grow up with a given technology Not fluent in a given technology
- 13. Lessons from Urbanization 1. Urbanization presents new problems and opportunities 2. Rural parents not fluent in parenting urban children 3. Need balanced urban-culture fluent parenting and teaching 4. Need to teach new models for ministry to address new opportunities and problems
- 14. Lessons for Virtualization 1. Online world presents new problems and opportunities 2. Digital-immigrant parents/teachers not fluent in parenting/teaching digital native children 3. Need balanced digital-culture fluent parenting & teaching 4. Need to teach new models for ministry to address new opportunities and problems
- 15. Technology Influenced Megatrends: Opportunities and Threats Opportunities Threats Growth in diversity Growth in deviance Many options/connections Shallow focus & relationships More information More temptation Less global poverty More domestic inequality Decreased autocracy Decreased accountability Increased specialization Holistic church decrease Megachurch network growth Wal-Mart effect on Churches Increased Gospel access Increased access to evil Increased Capacity for Good Increased Capacity for Evil
- 16. Incarnational Ministry Philosophy Become a Jew to the Jews And a Greek to the Greeks
- 17. Incarnational Ministry Philosophy Become a Jew to the Jews And a Geek to the Geeks Jesus was the first techie (Tektōn)
- 18. Incarnational Ministry among Digital Natives Are we becoming bilingual/bicultural by immersing ourselves in their culture? Are we meeting them where they are or forcing them to meet us on our cultural terms? Are we preparing them to live in the world we grew up in or the world they will live in? What indigenous leadership development of tech leaders strategy do you have?
- 19. Final Project Part 1 ◦ Book review of 2 books ◦ Journal: Weekly reflection on videos & articles Part 2 ◦ Media Nutrition Plan ◦ Accountability Plan ◦ Recovery & Life Balance Plan ◦ Plan to Pass on What you Learned ◦ Masters: 15-25 pages, undergraduate 12-20 pages Part 3. ◦ 2-3 page Self-Evaluation, Reflection and Contributions for Future Courses
- 20. Week 2: Media Nutrition and How Technology Affects Us
- 21. “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” - Father John Culkin and Marshall McLuhan
- 22. Rural Urba n Online/ Digital Need for Exercise & Nutrition Need for New Tools for Mental/Emotional Health
- 23. My Story on Nutrition
- 25. Sugary Media (Empty Entertainment) Neutral Media Media for Growth In person Relationships (Bible, Christian content/music, education, work) (some music, games, news, social media) (Love God + Love Others + Sabbath) Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Cheap Empty Calories (bread, rice, potatoes) Desert Exercise Toxic or Addictive Media Stop! Media Nutrition Pyramid
- 27. Television Fast Food = Computer Supermarket Tablet/Smartphone Convenience Store/Daily Trips = = Media Type & Devices Influence Availability of Healthy Media
- 29. Toxic & Addictive Media Sugary Media (Empty Entertainment) Neutral Media Media for growth In person Relationships (Bible, Christian content/ music, education, work) (some music, games, news, social media) Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Cheap Empty Calories (bread, rice, potatoes) Desert Exercise Media Nutrition Pyramid Poison
- 30. Image From: http://www.richlandcreek.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=153447&articleId=27982 For as a man thinks, so he is. - Proverbs 23:7 (paraphrased)
- 31. Steps 1. Media Nutrition Plan a) Log media usage b) Set goals, boundaries and tiny habits c) Log media usage again d) Continue lifestyle of healthy media nutrition 2. Recovery Plan a) Establish accountability b) Participate in recovery group or counseling c) Continue as needed
- 32. Elements of a Media Diary Log Nutritional Value of Media Media Type Content Type Media Consumption/Production Total Hours in Media
- 33. Media Diary Log Assignment
- 34. Week 5. Causes of Addiction
- 37. Common Linked Addictions for Technology Related Addiction Workaholism Isolation, Self-protection & Fear Food addiction and poor nutrition Anger/bitterness Information addiction Relationships/Codependency TV/Gaming/Pornography/Sex (one can be a trigger for another)
- 38. Christianity (Following Jesus) Q1: Tech Addiction Recovery Q2: Health & Media Nutrition Q3: Christian Media Ecology Q4: Tech Tools, Rules & Policies Q1: Nurture/Choice (Family, Habits) Q2: Nature (Biochemical) Q3: Cultural Q4: Social Systems The Greatest Threat to the Body of Christ…is the pervasive, destructive pornography available through the Internet. - Josh McDowell 2. Multiple Causes of Addiction Spiritual
- 39. Causes of Addiction Nurture/Personal Choice ◦ Family: abuse, trauma, ongoing family stress, deep wounds, neglect ◦ Choices: bad choices, habits, choosing recovery or addiction, broken thinking & emotions, laziness, lack of boundaries Nature/Biochemical ◦ Vitamin/Nutrient deficiencies, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, genetics, PTSD, ADHD Cultural ◦ Pressures: Work stress, racism, sexism, classism, isolation ◦ Exposure: sexualized culture, easy access to porn Social Systems ◦ Lack of societal boundaries on sex and porn Spiritual ◦ Wrong framework on life, lack of spiritual disciplines, spiritual strongholds, lack of connection with God
- 40. Causes of Addiction: Course Materials Nurture/Personal Choice ◦ Spiritual and Emotional Roots and Treatment of Addiction - Dr. Townsend Nature/Biochemical ◦ Mental Illness by Rick Warren ◦ Biology of Sin, Matthew Stanford ◦ How pornography hijacks the Brain - Dr William Struthers Cultural ◦ The Digital Invasion, ◦ Neil Postman - "The Surrender of Culture to Technology" ◦ Josh McDowell: Pornography is the Most Damaging thing in the Church Social Systems ◦ Hooked Spiritual ◦ Ted Talk: Billy Graham: Technology, faith and human shortcomings
- 41. Technology, Life Balance & Addiction Week 6. Steps to Health and Recovery
- 42. Christianity (Following Jesus) The world is unsafe. I must protect myself I need to prove my value by what I do. People cannot be trusted. I am safer alone. God will not really protect and provide for me Workaholism Poor Media Nutrition & Poor Boundaries Physical: Nutrition, ADHD, PTSD, No Exercise Limited self-care and spiritual life Few Strong Relationships Pornography Addiction Treating Multiple Causes of Addiction
- 43. Overview of Material This Week Overcoming Temptation BJ Fogg: Tiny Habits Hooked: Chapter 7
- 44. Technology Advances Make Things Easier to Do • Pornography, Drugs, Sex • All Addictions • Opportunities for the Gospel
- 45. Stress Ability + Trigger Acting Out Guilt & Shame (Motivation) Performance Addiction Cycle & Recovery Grace Self-Care Healthy Habits & Recovery Boundaries Don’t Focus Here
- 46. Grace and Unlinking Addictions Shame & Performance Grace
- 47. Strategies to Decrease Motivation to Act Out: Health Habits & Self Care Limit factors that Increase Motivation for Addiction ◦ Stress, isolation, HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired), boredom, “toxic hit” exposure, lack of health in other areas of life (physical, media, spiritual) Promote Healthy Habits that Decrease Motivation for Addiction ◦ Prayer, exercise, relaxation, journaling, self-care, activities that renew you, good nutrition, healthy relationships, recovery, decreased benefit of acting out, detox, nutritional and biochemical (i.e. PTSD, ADHD), increased meaning and purpose in life
- 48. Lesson from David and Bathsheba
- 49. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
- 50. Lessons from Nutrition & Weight Loss What not to do ◦ Only try to eat less What to eat ◦ Avoid sugary drinks and deserts ◦ Eat foods that keep you full (meat) ◦ Avoid empty calories (carbs, “white foods”) ◦ Eat foods with nutrition (vegetables) How to do it ◦ The battle is at the supermarket: go shopping when full ◦ Only buy healthy things/don’t bring home Oreos ◦ Plan ahead and don’t eat fast food
- 51. You are what you eat. As a man thinks so is he. - Proverbs 23:7 Paraphrased We become what we worship. We become what we behold. - Marshall McLuhan
- 52. Strategy to Decrease Ability to Act Out: Media Nutrition Plan: 5 Steps Step 1. Replace Empty/Sugary/Toxic Media with nutritious media. Step 2. Develop Daily Media Plan Step 3. Commit to Boundaries Step 4. Cleanup Your Media Environment Step 5. Develop Tools & Routines for Positive Media Nutrition
- 53. Part 1 “I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place. But, it isn't my fault. It still takes me a long time to get out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. It's a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. I walk down another street.” ― Portia Nelson, There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery Ritual, Boundaries & Walking Down a Different Street
- 54. This Week’s Assignment Turn in reflection on visiting a recovery group (from week 2’s assignment) Media Nutrition Plan Begin Tracking Media Use Again on Media Nutrition Plan
- 56. Proof Texts So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12
- 57. Proof Texts Do not turn to mediums … for you will be defiled by them. Leviticus 19:31
- 58. Spectrum Virtual to Real Chat, Video, In Person Stranger vs. non stranger Games, Online
Editor's Notes
- Many of you have probably heard the quote by Alan Kay: “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff” If we understand technology is a culture, then we understand that our own view toward technology will be generationally specific so we can avoid being ethno-centric
- Socrates and writing Printing press and textbooks
- If you look at the Bible, it starts in a garden, but it ends in a City. We are in the middle of the largest mass migration in history. Just recently, more people now globally live in urban rather than rural environments. The blue line represents the percentage of people in urban environments and the green represents the percentage in rural.
- Now there is a much more rapid migration happening in the virtualization of the world into online and digital formats. The yellow line represents the percentage of the world online, the blue is the developed world and the red is the developing world. Now I recognize that the analogy of urbanization to virtualization doesn’t exactly fit, because people actually don’t move from cities to a “virtual world,” but just work with me. The reason why I want to use this analogy is that it is helpful in providing a cultural and ministry framework.
- The same type of thing has been happening in our use of media. You might say that our time has been getting colonized by the virtual world of media
- Why do people move to cities? New opportunities: jobs, education, churches, better transportation. The challenge is that cities create new problems: slums, gangs, violence, anonymizing, drugs, addiction In summary cities make good more efficient and evil more efficient 2. Rural parents not fluent in parenting urban children The typical story is that a naive rural individual comes to the city, and quickly gets robbed. Then their kids get caught up in gangs and drugs. I grew up in inner city Kansas City. Both my parents were raised in rural environments. When you are on the farm, you can just let your kids go unsupervised outside. In the city, they will get into trouble and get hurt. I saw most of my friends start using drugs and having sex in elementary school. The problem was that we had parents that didn’t have the parenting skills they need to live in the city. 3. Need balanced urban-culture fluent parenting and teaching Now, I’m raising my children in an urban environment. I know the risks and know how to moderate those risk because I’m fluent in urban culture. Hundreds of urban interns: walk down these streets, and don’t walk down those streets at night If you are raising your kids in an urban environment, then avoidance is not the solution: urban culture = bad. We are called to be in the world, but not of it. Parents also shouldn’t be too permissive. That results in children being exposed to urban dangers because of lack of street-savvy of parents 4. New models So how did Christian schools adapt? They had to develop new models for teach people to address new opportunities and problems. Now they are called schools of Urban Ministry, and they deal with urban problems. So let’s apply the similar lessons to this digital migration.
- Online world presents new problems and opportunities Opportunities: world’s information at our fingertips, online education, instant communication Problems:, tech addiction, pornography, online affairs, online predators, fraud/gangs, terrorist are globalized 2. Digital-immigrant parents not fluent in parenting digital native children What happened to me in my childhood effect of being unsupervised in an urban environment is happening to a whole generatoin. A whole generation is growing up online unsupervised exposed to the online underworld: theft is the norm, exposed to porn, predators, becoming addicted. I mentioned that I was an early adopter among digital natives, but I was unsupervised. I used my commodore 64 to became a computer hacker, and saw a lot of my friends go to jail for hacking. 3. Need balanced digital-culture fluent parenting & teaching Extreme avoidance: ethnocentric view of all tech = bad. I remember having a friend growing up who never played a video game; honestly he was a social outcast. It was like he spoke a different language than the other kids. I know some parents that are raising kids without any media: TV, video games, etc. I’m concerned they will be like children who grow up with over-restrictive parents, and then once they are on their own, they are like sheep before wolves and go wild Extreme permissiveness: expose children to online dangers because of lack of tech fluency to know healthy online boundaries. Five year old having bad dreams because he was playing an NC-17 violent video game with his older brother. Computers and tablets with no monitoring alone in kids’ rooms. What happens when you start with regular access to hard core-pornography in elementary school? You become like one of the teensI worked with where her friends regularly had parties with their teen friends that were orgies. 4. Need new models for ministry to address new opportunities and problems If we developed schools of urban ministry to deal with urban problems, we need to develop Schools of Technology Ministry What are the major opportunities and threats
- What are the megatrends that are being caused by this virtualization? I’ve spent much of my past 20 years researching this starting at MIT where I co-founded the Internet Telecoms consortium. My study continued as I worked with venture capitalist and Internet startups, then switched to the nonprofit side, at TechMission where we live out the values of Jesus, Justice & Technology. Since eating of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Mankind has been increasing in its knowledge of Good and Evil The real question is how do we maximize the strengths of this new model while offsetting the weaknesses That will be the struggle of the next few generations
- You start by recognizing that technology is actually a culture. That gives a good framework for missions. In urban missions, we call this incarnational ministry, based on how Jesus incarnated and came to us where we are. It is summarized by the phrase from Paul, “I became a Jew to the Jews and a Greek to the Greeks.” So what does that look like for technology ministers. It requires just a slight translation to modernize it for techies.
- What does it mean to contextualize the gospel to techies and the digital native generation? There are a lot of ways to do that. One is to start with the language of that group, immerse yourself. Recently there has been criticism of the fact that all the pictures of Jesus are white Europeans. Then you see Black Jesus, Asian Jesus. What does it mean to present Jesus in a way that techies can understand? I personally like to think of Jesus as the first techie. The word the Bible uses to describe Jesus is Tekton, which has the same root as where we get our word for technology. He used the tools of the day to build things. If Jesus were born today, I like to think he might be a computer programmer. My point obviously isn’t that we should start putting glasses on Jesus to contextualize him to techies, but that we need to be asking the question: how do we contexualize Jesus to techies and digital natives.
- What we’ve done at City Vision is to design a whole Master’s program to prepare Technology Ministers with these questions in mind.
- My Story This kind comes out with prayer and fasting” Appendicitis Depression food exercise
- My Story This kind comes out with prayer and fasting” Appendicitis Depression food exercise
- Favorite stories is when the disciples tried to cast out a demon and Jesus said this one only comes out by prayer and fasting. How we treat addition depends on its cause. Appendicitis story.
- Story of one night stand and grace
- David faced temptation when he was bored, not when he was in battles.
- My story health Before kids: ate bad, watched lots of TV, played lots of games, bigger pornography problem After kids: nutritional conversion, exercise, no games/TV Passion to learn Running a school Learning parenting
- My story.