The week Joe and Chad Rock continue listening to college students and their perspectives on controlling their scroll. Despite some of their savvy tactics, including some app recommendation, Joe starts to get a little suspicious that there is still some naivete that lurks amongst many Gen-Zers. Also AI throws up an interesting artifact when investigating influencers (displayed here).

In this episode, Joe and Chad Rock listen to what students from 3 different college campuses have to say about their doom scrolling woes. We find their remarks timely, in regards to the recent landmark court decisions regarding big tech and their culpability for the intentional addictive platforms they designed. A special thanks to the great students from Cal State Channel Islands, UC Berkeley, and here at Columbia College Chicago.

After an earlier-than-planned “very special episode,” we begin our college campus interviews, finding out what videos undergraduates’ are watching on social media platforms. Today we are at Columbia College Chicago. Unsurprisingly, we found very few CCC students that routinely watch influencers that have been known for manipulative marketing tactics. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that they are mostly media/visual art students and thus, pretty darn media savvy. Thus, we’re dedicating this week to examine a few of their favorites.

Influencer/creators links:

https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski

https://www.tiktok.com/@julesleblanc

https://www.tiktok.com/@reitergrace

Mentioned but didn’t get to:

https://www.tiktok.com/@spencer.barbosa