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The LOG OFF Think Tank seeks to mobilize young people to explore social media’s impact on younger generations through a diverse array of creative initiatives. The Think Tank consists of LOG OFF’s online publication, The Network, and our podcast, “LOG OFF & Listen Up”. Read more about our creative initiatives.
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The Network
LOG OFF’s Online Newspaper works to develop and share stories from diverse voices, ranging from experts in the tech-wellness sector, youth from the LOG OFF community, and individuals with something to say regarding their online experience.
Podcast
LOG OFF and Listen Up
LOG OFF and Listen Up is our very own podcast! We get the chance to sit down with folks across the movement to chat about how they navigate their experience online. An extension of the LOG OFF Movement, LOG OFF and Listen Up features conversations about the complex relationship between today’s youth and 21st century technology. Join us each month as we discuss digital wellness, online culture, social media reform, and so much more.
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Recent press hits and media coverage of our campaigns and work here at the LOG OFF Movement.
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New York Times
A New Student Movement Wants You to Log Off
Emma Lembke, 19, is encouraging her peers to reduce their time on the internet and rethink their relationship to it.
The Network
How The Instinctual Fulfillment of Social Media Algorithms Have Led to a Loss of Self-Control
Physiological needs – food, water, rest: Typically, when we are hungry, the main priority of the brain is to find food to eat. Our minds are then on constant alert for food. In the digital world, when we are “hungry” we turn to social media to “feed” us. We may be on constant alert for […]
El Pais
The Epidemic of poor mental health that grows among adolescents: “Social Networks took away my quality of life”
Emma Lembke, 20, founded the Log Off initiative after her social anxiety and eating disorders were aggravated by the use of platforms.
FOX News
Activist Emma Lembke urges 'multi-stakeholder strategy' against harmful social media effects
Log Off Movement co-founder Emma Lembke weighs in on safeguards to protect children from the dangers of social media.
NPR
Teens say social media is stressing them out. Here's how to help them
They’ve been affected by social media more than any other generation, says Emma Lembke, who’s 20 and founded the Log Off Movement to help teens have a healthy relationship with social media.
Webby Awards
LOG OFF Founder interviewed on “The Webby Awards” podcast
In this episode we are joined by Emma Lembke, who founded LOG OFF, a global movement to help youth re-examine their relationship to social media and insert Gen Z’s voice in discussions around responsible technology.
CBS
Teen activist on social media, self-esteem and why it's important to "log off"
Emma Lembke, a digital wellness youth activist featured in the documentary, sits down with CBS News’ Mola Lenghi and Tanya Rivero to discuss why she launched a movement encouraging people to “log off.”
CBS
Are The Kids Alright: The Internet
Gen Z is the first generation to go from birth through adolescence completely connected. This episode of the CBS Reports documentary series “Are the Kids All Right?”
