{"id":168,"date":"2024-12-02T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024-reflects-trivial-use-of-social-media-social-media-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:16:44","slug":"brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024-reflects-trivial-use-of-social-media-social-media-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024-reflects-trivial-use-of-social-media-social-media-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brain rot\u2019: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects \u2018trivial\u2019 use of social media | Social media | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Casper Grathwohl, Oxford Languages president, said: \u201cBrain rot speaks to one of the perceived dangers of virtual life, and how we are using our free time. It feels like a rightful next chapter in the cultural conversation about humanity and technology. It\u2019s not surprising that so many voters embraced the term, endorsing it as our choice this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also find it fascinating that the word brain rot has been adopted by gen Z and gen Alpha, those communities largely responsible for the use and creation of the digital content the term refers to.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/dec\/02\/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024\">www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/dec\/02\/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casper Grathwohl, Oxford Languages president, said: \u201cBrain rot speaks to one of the perceived dangers of virtual life, and how we are using our free time. It feels like a rightful next chapter in the cultural conversation about humanity and technology. It\u2019s not surprising that so many voters embraced the term, endorsing it as our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}