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‘Need cues to watch a movie because they are on second screens’: Even film students can’t put their phones down

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08.02.2026

With ever-shrinking attention spans, film students today are struggling to make it to the end of a feature-length movie without getting distracted by their phones.

That’s according to a recent article by The Atlantic’s Rose Horowitch. In a snippet that has since circulated on X, gaining nearly 2 million views since it was posted last week, one of the film studies professors interviewed by Horowitch recalled asking his students about the........

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