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Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time

Digital media | The Guardian · Sally Weale Education correspondent · last updated

Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage

Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned “digital nutritionist”.

These two measures, otherwise known as greyscaling and algorithmic resistance, are among a number of recommendations from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, an associate professor at University College London and a leading expert in digital literacy.

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