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Your Attention Is All They Want

Authors: Olensky, Sven D.;

Your Attention Is All They Want

Abstract

Your Attention Is All They Want examines the structural mismatch between adolescent neurodevelopment and the high intensity digital environments that now shape their daily lives. Drawing from neuroscience, behavioral research, and platform architecture analysis, the paper demonstrates that adolescents are not failing at willpower but are overwhelmed by systems engineered for continuous engagement. It reframes digital overwhelm as a design-driven phenomenon rather than an individual deficit. The manuscript presents a four pillar framework for restoring agency: environmental stability, relational co-regulation, cognitive and identity clarity, and community norms that lower pressure. Each pillar targets a different load-bearing requirement for healthy digital engagement. Together they form a structural model that helps families and communities create conditions where adolescents can function with autonomy inside algorithmically mediated environments. Rather than moralizing technology use, the paper reveals how reinforcement loops, variable rewards, availability pressures, and personalization architecture interact with developmental sensitivity. By grounding recommendations in observable research and lived experience, it provides a practical path for parents, educators, clinicians, and policymakers to reduce reactivity and rebuild stability.

Keywords

compulsive digital behavior, neurodevelopment, algorithmic influence on agency, loss of agency in digital environments, compulsive behavior, behavioral reinforcement, recommender systems, digital wellbeing

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