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"An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control...Tracing the very notion of addiction through history right up until the present day, Alter shows that we're only just beginning to understand the epidemic of behavioral addiction gripping society..."--
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Digital Lethargy is a book about decentering digital technologies. His definition of the digital is expansive; it includes workers, servers and infrastructures, environments, as well as users. It also includes historical contexts. It's the kind of far-reaching exploration that new media studies (as it's come to be known) is lacking and sorely needs. By exploring digital technology through art, Tung-Hui Hu creates ways of thinking about what it means...
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White Lion Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"We use technology to connect, work, learn, get fit, shop and even date. But who is really in control: you, the platform or your device? This book gives the reader back their power. My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open explores how bad digital habits and experiences are damaging lives, and what we can do about it. Tanya Goodin is a digital detox campaigner and agony aunt sounding the alarm on digital lifestyle issues we wrestle with daily. Through recollections...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Studies show that the average American is spending more than 10 hours a day in front of their screens... Too often, bad feelings from social media interactions linger, negatively affecting our off-line lives and worsening already present mental health issues. Instead of demonizing social media by taking a one-note, "digital detox" approach, Logged In and Stressed Out recognizes social media is not, itself, the problem--it's how we use it that needs...
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Publisher
RIBA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Organised into three parts - the mediated space of broadcast news, advertising and entertainment - the book explores the interface between space, broadcast media and architecture, offering a compelling critique of how these elements collude to assert a particular message or power structure. Academic in rigour, but accessible in tone and intent, Mediated space will challenge ways of seeing and knowing, (showing how these are co-produced by the creators...
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Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
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