i-Minds - 2nd edition (eBook)

How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it

Mari K. Swingle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 2., Revised & Updated
528 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-77142-290-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing our brains and exploring positive steps to take to embrace new technologies.

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An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also rewire our brains to feel restless, disconnected, unable to sleep, anxious, and depressed, with new illnesses like FOMO (fear of missing out), and electro sensitivities appearing. Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, this fully revised and updated second edition of i-Minds comprehensively explores an era of screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering it as both godsend and plague. Addressing theory, popular media, and industry hype, i-Minds demonstrates: How constant connectivity is changing our brains The dangers of unchecked connectivity Positive steps to embrace new technologies while protecting our well-being and steering our future in a more human direction. i-Minds is a must-read for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness, or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.

Autor

lt;p> Dr. Mari Swingle is a practicing therapist, researcher, and author who has been working in the fields of mental health and education for over 25 years. She holds a PhD and MA in Clinical Psychology, an MA in Language Education, and a BA in Fine Arts. Dr. Swingle is a known expert on the effects of i-technology (screen-based devices), and lectures locally and internationally on the effects of screen-based technology on our brains and behavior. Her mission is fostering health, happiness, and informed choice in the digital age. She frequently unplugs in the pursuit of balance and the multitude of joys and curiosities life has to offer, and lives in Vancouver, Canada. www.drmariswingle.com

Inhalt

Introduction

Part 1: How and Why
1. The Shift
2. Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference
3. The Pull
4. The Power of Sound: History and Biology
5. The Biological Science — What's Really Going on in Our Brains?
6. Boxed In — Anxiety in the Masses
7. From Digital Natives to i-Kids
8. The Story of Alpha
9. The Narrowing of Minds

Part 2: Process and Development
10. Of Systems and Process
11. Back to Biology: Epigenetics and Vestibular Regulation
12. From i-Kids to i-Brains
13. Learning, Play, and Parenting— Conflicting Needs in a Busy, Busy World
14. Socialization — Child's Play

Part 3: Education, Games, Power, and Politics
15. The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral
16. Of Games and Gaming
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly— Esports and the Business of Gaming
18. Beyond Illusions — Spatial Planning, Arbitrary Learning, and Geolocation Skills
19. Breaking the Trance
20. i-Tech and Healthcare — To Care or i-Care

Part 4: Trust, Governance, and the Attention Ecconomy
21. i-Trust and i-Privacy— Social, Economic, and Political Manipulation
22. Governance Part One — Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy
23. Governance Part Two — Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection
24. The Attention Economy
25. Governance and Safety — Electromagnetic Explorations

Part 5: The Interpersonal
26. Community, Communication, Digital Mediation, and Friendship
27. Sex and Sexuality Part A — Adult Play
28. Sex and Sexuality Part B — Brain Wiring and the Death of Intimacy
29. Sex and Sexuality Part C — From Children to Elders, Communication, and Lifestyle Solutions
30. Benefactors of Change
31. i-Addiction and i-Life— The Beginnings of a New World
32. The Tipping Point
33. Our Future Our Selves

Epilogue: So What to Do?

Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2019
• Verlagsort: Gabriola Island
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Schlagworte: affecting health and happiness • arbitrary learning • Biological effects • constant connectivity changing brains • dangers of unchecked connectivity • exploration of wireless world • exploration of wireless world effects • fear of missing out • FOMO • geolocation skills • Social • social and biological effects • spatial planning • steps to embrace new technologies • steps to embrace new technologies screentime • vestibular regulation • video gaming addiction
• ISBN-10: 1-77142-290-4 / 1771422904
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77142-290-1 / 9781771422901