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“Children are the first victims of overexposure to screens”

2022-02-04T19:49:32.772Z


INTERVIEW - Authors of The War of Attention (L'Échappée) and co-founders of the association Lève les yeux!, Florent Souillot and Yves Marry warn against overexposure to screens and explain the springs of the war waged by large companies in the world. digital to capture...


Yves Marry is co-founder of the association Lève les yeux!, a collective for the reconquest of attention, with Florent Souillot, head of digital at Éditions Gallimard-Flammarion.

LE FIGARO.- The "war of attention" is the one led by large digital companies to capture the available brain time of users, explain yourself.

Where are we today?

Florent SOUILLOT and Yves MARRY.-

The situation is very worrying, but not hopeless.

We see human attention as the new scarce resource at the heart of economic growth.

And as with coal, oil or water, extraction is not without some undesirable effects for humanity.

As everyone around us can see, we now spend most of our waking time in front of a screen, an average of ten hours a day for adults in 2019, and between three and four hours a day for children from less than 12 years.

These figures date from before the…

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