{"id":45153,"date":"2014-07-17T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_megan_daum-when_cellphones_and_social_media_become_the_enemy\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:00:23","slug":"la_times_megan_daum-when_cellphones_and_social_media_become_the_enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45153","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Megan Daum&#8211;When cellphones and social media become the enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as that phone is acting as a kind of electronic umbilical cord, parents can tell themselves their children are safe.<\/p>\n<p>But increasingly the smartphone itself is an instrument of harm. Such is the case with a 16-year-old Houston girl named Jada, who entered the spotlight as she publicly confronted the evidence that she had been raped at a party by at least one other teenager. She says she passed out after drinking a beverage that was spiked and only learned of the crime after her classmates began tweeting photos and videos taken of her unconscious, partly nude body. (Houston police are investigating; no one has been charged.)<\/p>\n<p>What happened next is remarkable in ways that instill faith in the human spirit and at the same time provoke disgust at the depravity and lemming-like behavior that teenagers with smartphones are capable of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-daum-jada-rape-culture-20140717-column.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as that phone is acting as a kind of electronic umbilical cord, parents can tell themselves their children are safe. But increasingly the smartphone itself is an instrument of harm. Such is the case with a 16-year-old Houston<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45153\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,433,209,175,94,101,582,589,149,168,98,95,110,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}