{"424241":{"#nid":"424241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Phantom Phone Vibration Syndrome: Is it actually negative?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/rosenberger\u0022\u003ERobert Rosenberger\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor of Philosophy in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/strong\u003E, recently published a paper on the \u0022phantom vibration syndrome\u0022 in the journal \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0747563215003611\u0022\u003EComputers in Human Behavior\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E. The phantom phone vibration syndrome occurs when a person thinks his or her phone is ringing or vibrating from a text message when it actually is not. As a society increasingly dependent on mobile devices, the phantom vibrate easily becomes a phenomenon of worry for users.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose among the worriers fear that the dependency on technology involves rewiring the brain and altering human behavior. Rosenberger says otherwise.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are ways to talk about technology without reducing everything to brain rewiring talk,\u201d he tells me over the phone. \u201cYes, you\u2019re brain\u2019s involved, but your brain\u2019s involved in everything. There\u0027s a weird scientific legitimacy that comes from saying it\u0027s changing your brain, as opposed to just claiming it\u2019s changing your behaviour or society. If I\u0027m teaching you to drive, we wouldn\u0027t talk about brains.\u0026nbsp;I\u0026nbsp;would just say, OK, take hold of the steering wheel.\u0026nbsp;\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe concludes that the tendency to check phones arises from basic human nature to obsess. For instance, constantly checking the driveway to see if a guest has a arrived or a commuter straining to hear the arrival of a subway.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/sci-tech\/2015\/07\/philosophy-phones-why-it-might-not-matter-you-cant-stop-checking-yours\u0022\u003EContinue to full article...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERobert Rosenberger received his PhD in philosophy from Stony Brook University.\u0026nbsp;His research in the philosophy of technology explores the habitual relationships people develop with everyday devices such as cell phones and television, with applications in design and policy\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27498","created_gmt":"2015-07-14 11:33:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:38","author":"Rachel Miles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Kramer Burdell","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/sci-tech\/2015\/07\/philosophy-phones-why-it-might-not-matter-you-cant-stop-checking-yours","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405881":{"id":"405881","type":"image","title":"Robert Rosenberger","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1539181769","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:29:29","alt":"Photo portrait of School of Public Policy professor Robert Rosenberger","file":{"fid":"76113","name":"robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40625,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robertrosenbergerweb.jpg?itok=DSNltKPQ"}}},"media_ids":["405881"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"134171","name":"phantom phone vibration syndrome"},{"id":"134181","name":"phantom vibrate"},{"id":"134191","name":"philosophy of technology"},{"id":"36251","name":"robert rosenberger"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}