Opinion: Unplug and Engage, How to Fight Doom Scrolling – The Albion College Pleiad Online

Opinion: Unplug and Engage, How to Fight Doom Scrolling – The Albion College Pleiad Online: Engaging with news and media is okay, but it has become an issue disguised as necessary information. I am no stranger to doom scrolling; it has influenced mine and others’ fears and anxieties.  Combating doom scrolling is not effortless; technology has become an additional appendage, always close by, with endless information available at the click of a button. The world has become a harsh and hostile place lately – the world is dying, people are dying, the economy is dying – and I am watching it happen through a screen inches away from my face.