Week 2 Lecture - Social Connection and Time Well-Spent

Lisa Yan, September 4th, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required Amy Orben, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. How social media affects teen mental health: a missing link. Nature. 2023.
• Required Anya Kamenetz. New Research Casts Doubt On Connection Between Smartphone Use And Teen Mental Health. NPR. 2019.
• Required Jess Kung. What internet outrage reveals about race and TikTok's algorithm. NPR Code Switch. 2022.
• Optional Bobby Allyn. A new AI-powered TikTok filter is sparking concern. NPR. 2023.
• Optional Brooke Auxier, Monica Anderson. Social Media Use in 2021. Pew Research Center. 2021.

CS H195 Readings

• Required Beverly Daniel Tatum. Chapters 1 and 2. Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?. UC Berkeley Library. 1997.
• Required bell hooks. Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2. Teaching to Transgress. UC Berkeley Library. 1994.

Attendance for Lecture 2 is required. There will be a bCourses quiz to check attendance.