Screen Deep: Growing Up Online | A Summer Series on Digital Addiction
A Summer Series on Digital Addiction

Screen Deep

Growing Up Online

Twice a month, ten articles follow two seventeen-year-olds in the same small French town — Maya and her neighbor Théo — through how digital addiction quietly limits learning, creativity, reasoning, and the simple act of socializing. Written for students and the families raising them.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's Raising Us All?

The Ten Issues

Phase 1 — What's Actually Happening (Issues 1–7)  |  Phase 2 — What to Do About It (Issues 8–10)

Issue 1 Maya

Who Is Really Holding the Phone?

💬 And the four costs worth naming before we go any further

Why "just put your phone down" was never going to work — and what's actually being designed against a teenager's attention.

📅 Sun, Jul 26, 2026 Read Issue 1
Issue 2 Théo

The Price of a Glance

💬 The real cost isn't the four seconds you looked — it's the ten minutes you didn't come back from

Rebuilding a motorcycle for profit, Théo learns the tax applies to work you chose, not just homework you didn't.

📅 Sun, Aug 9, 2026 Dropping Soon
Issue 3 Maya

The Page You Forgot

💬 She read every word of it. Her friend read the same page — and remembered the sentence that mattered.

How scrolling habits train the brain to skim — and what deep understanding actually requires.

📅 Sun, Aug 23, 2026 Dropping Soon
Issue 4 Théo

Who Killed Your Imagination

💬 Hint: not a person, not on purpose — and it's still sitting in your pocket

How passive consumption crowds out active making — and why an idle ten minutes matters more than it looks.

📅 Sun, Sep 6, 2026 Dropping Soon
Issue 5 Maya

Borrowed Brilliance

💬 The argument was excellent. She still couldn't explain, out loud, why it was true.

How digital and AI reliance are reshaping independent reasoning — the tool that thinks for you, not with you.

📅 Sun, Sep 20, 2026 Dropping Soon
Issue 6 Théo

Known By No One

💬 Forty replies came in that night. Not one of them noticed she felt invisible.

How hyperconnection and isolation are rising together, and what comparison culture does to a teenager's sense of self.

📅 Sun, Oct 4, 2026 Dropping Soon
Issue 7 Maya

Exhausted By Design

💬 The bad mood didn't start this morning. It started at 12:40 last night.

The physiological chain linking screens, sleep, and mood — and why it's a loop, not a line.

📅 Sun, Oct 18, 2026 Dropping Soon
Issue 8 Théo

Is This A Problem?

💬 The behavioral signs actually worth watching for — and the ordinary teenage ones that aren't

What to actually watch for — and what's just ordinary teenage life mistaken for something more.

📅 Publishing soon Dropping Soon
Issue 9 Maya

Banning Phones Isn't A Strategy

💬 What actually changes a classroom's relationship with attention

Device policy, curriculum, and teaching self-regulation as a skill worth actually teaching.

📅 Publishing soon Dropping Soon
Issue 10 Théo

The Place of Family

💬 A digital agreement no one signs alone — built together, not handed down

The series closes where it should: a practical agreement, built with a teenager, not imposed on one.

📅 Publishing soon Dropping Soon

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You'll receive all ten issues of Screen Deep in one email, once the series has finished publishing.

First issue live: Sunday, July 26, 2026.

About Screen Deep

A Summer Series on Digital Addiction, for Students and the Families Raising Them

Written from Saint-Martin-d'Uriage, France

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