by Miranda (they/them) | Nov 22, 2025 | Blog Post 7 - AI |
How AI uses our Drinking Water: BBC World Service I will be honest, I think about this one all the time. I have never seen this video, but I have read online many times about the amount of water AI uses from activist circles I follow. This is one of the main...
by Miranda (they/them) | Nov 22, 2025 | Blog Post 6 - Economics |
Zone 2: Addiction and the Dopamine Economy The two examples that came to mind for this zone were the poem “It was the Damn Phones” and the documentary “The Social Delima”. It is important for social workers to think deliberately about the impact of websites and apps...
by Miranda (they/them) | Oct 29, 2025 | Blog Post 5 - Digital Divide |
Digital literacy and access is imperative for folks to have, with more and more things being only accessible online. I have friends and neighbors who do not currently have access to a smart device or a computer. Getting anything done without that is nearly impossible....
by Miranda (they/them) | Oct 10, 2025 | Blog Post 4 - Burnout |
I honestly have never really thought about fatigue related specifically to a technology-mediated practice. While I cannot speak to mental healthcare work specifically, I can speak to working virtually and fatigue. Before I started our program, I was an operations...
by Miranda (they/them) | Sep 27, 2025 | Blog Post 3 - Ethical Challenges |
1. A clinical social worker in private (independent) practice communicated with several of her clients via text messages and email. Some messages concerned administrative matters, such as scheduling; others included clinical content, especially when clients contacted...
