Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: How Communication Technology Transforms Cultures with Fr. Paul Soukup, SJ
Description: The internet, wherever we access it, is so much of our lives now. Being online isn’t some alternate reality different from our real lives. The internet is real life. But what is that doing to our brains and our souls? How are the mini computers in our pockets affecting our lives, whether we’re using them for listening to great Jesuit podcasts or mindlessly scrolling through Instagram? What is our technology doing to our ability to, say, pay attention to the person in front of us? Or to read something long and dense? Or to be be bored? Or to p...