Sulzen, Joenon2024-02-122024-02-1210.15786/19727719https://wyoscholar.uwyo.edu/handle/internal/6685https://doi.org/10.15786/19727719This project is a multi-media approach to investigate the opportunity to live a less passive and distracted life by deleting social media and only using technology in active ways. This process was conducted by keeping journal entries of my day-to-day, creating two short films to reflect the before and after of the project, and developing a website to be used as a collective for the project's results as well as a resource for the audience. Overall, this project has grown into a significant study concerning the benefits of changing the way people use technology. Social media and technology are not inherently bad; however, it is how we use them that dictates that.00:08:01; 00:04:30; 00:05:15enghttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Social media usePoetryFilmTechnology useHobbiesTravel Writingthesis