{"id":18707,"date":"2025-05-03T05:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/switch-your-phone-to-greyscale-and-prune-your-algorithm-says-ucl-expert\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T05:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:37:48","slug":"switch-your-phone-to-greyscale-and-prune-your-algorithm-says-ucl-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/switch-your-phone-to-greyscale-and-prune-your-algorithm-says-ucl-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch your phone to greyscale and prune your algorithm, says UCL expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Digital nutritionist\u2019 Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage <\/p>\n<p>Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned \u201cdigital nutritionist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These two measures, otherwise known as greyscaling and algorithmic resistance, are among a number of recommendations from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, an associate professor at University College London and a leading expert in digital literacy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/03\/digital-nutritionist-kaitlyn-regehr-parents-phone-use\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/da0725006dd630e7d3ec64972d72a5c943f11d27\/0_5_1170_702\/master\/1170.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4fa994ef840ac831649670662b84bba4\" title=\"Switch your phone to greyscale and prune your algorithm, says UCL expert\" \/>\u2018Digital nutritionist\u2019 Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage<br \/>\nSwitching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned \u201cdigital nutritionist\u201d.<br \/>\nThese two measures, otherwise known as greyscaling and algorithmic resistance, are among a number of recommendations from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, an associate professor at University College London and a leading expert in digital literacy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Digital nutritionist\u2019 Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned \u201cdigital nutritionist\u201d. These two measures, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/switch-your-phone-to-greyscale-and-prune-your-algorithm-says-ucl-expert\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Switch your phone to greyscale and prune your algorithm, says UCL expert<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}