Deviced! (eBook)

Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World

Doreen Dodgen-Magee (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
270 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1585-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Americans engage with screens for more than ten hours a day, changing our brains, our relationships, and our personal lives. Here, Dodgen-Magee illuminates the effects of device overuse, and offers wisdom gleaned from personal stories, research, and anecdotes from youth, parents and professionals about what healthy screen use looks like.

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With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly everyone. While the effects differ at each point of development, real changes to the brain, relationships, and personal lives are well documented. Deviced! explores these alterations and offers a realistic look at how we can better use technology and break away from the bad habits we've formed. Using personal stories, cutting edge research, and anecdotes from youth, parents, and professionals, Dodgen-Magee highlights the brain changes that result from excessive technology use and offers an approach to the digital world that enables more informed and lasting change and a healthier long-term perspective. Given that the reader is living within a culture of ever-changing and advancing technologies, Deviced! is written in such a way that its contents can weather the constantly changing digital landscape by focusing on the concepts of honest assessment and healthy boundary setting rather than on specific technologies or platforms.Deviced! offers a mindful approach to assessing current technology use, breaking bad habits, setting new norms, and re-engaging with life with renewed richness and awareness.

Autor

Doreen Dodgen-Magee, PsyD, is a psychologist with over twenty-five years of experience working with individuals and groups in Portland, Oregon. She also maintains a national and international speaking docket and is followed online where she posts challenges for living moderately with tech and wildly in embodied spaces. Doreen’s main passion is engaging people about how the new digital landscape is shaping humanity. She also is a nationally recognized gun violence prevention activist.

Inhalt

Part I: The Big Picture on How Devices Are Impacting Us1. There’s No Such Thing as IRL2. This Applies to You (and Me and Every Other Person)3. Living Outside Our Skin4. Our Bodies and Brains on Tech 5. Technology and Relationships6. Technology and the SelfPart II: Moving with Intention Toward a Grounded Self 7. The Fertile Ground of Idle Time8. Cultivating an Internal Locus of ControlPart III: Telling Ourselves the Truth and Finding a New Balance9. Habits and Norms10. Assessing Our Technology Use and Making Adjustments11. Spotting Points and the Fiery Life12. Getting to Decide (and Being Cheered on for Doing So!)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.10.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 32 Illustrations including: - 5 Black & White Illustrations; - 27 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: children and technology • digital addiction • digital citizenship • digital habits • health use of technology • intentional technology use • limiting screen time • mindful technology use • screen time • smartphones • technologh and mental health • Technology • technology addiction • technology and anxiety • technology and depression • technology and family • technology and health • technology and relationships • technology and work • technology habits • technology use • video game addiction
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1585-9 / 1538115859
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1585-5 / 9781538115855