Smartphone Nation: Why We're All Addicted to Our Screens and What You and Your Family Can Do About It

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A refreshingly candid guide to gaining agency with your smartphone, filled with exercises and science-backed strategies to help you and your children become healthy and informed digital citizens in the age of the smartphone, social media and AI.How many times have you looked at your phone today? Or rather, how many times did you look at your phone to do one thing, only to find yourself looking at something completely different ten minutes later? We&’re all addicted to screens, but what can you do about it?Whether we like it or not, our lives and careers, as well as those of our children, will be shaped by social media, apps, and AI. In today&’s attention economy, our minds and our attention equal the product that is sold to advertisers. Only those who learn how to navigate our digital world effectively will thrive.Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr breaks digital consumption into an accessible structure of the food pyramid we all grew up on and frames it into five digital nutrition categories: education and learning, at the bottom of the pyramid, where the most time should be spent; creativity, including interests like reading, music, or drawing; communication with friends and family; participation, such as searching and gaming; and passive, the activities we should do the least, like doomscrolling.Smartphone Nation encourages and supports readers, showing you how to:Game your algorithmCatch misinformationSpot and tackle "microdosing" of harmful contentNavigate the attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at any costImprove your digital nutrition for better mental healthSpring clean your online viewing experienceUplifting and empowering, this pioneering, practical book will equip you—and your family—not only to survive in the digital space, but to thrive.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781039057883
Related ISBNs:
9781039057876, 9781039057906, 9781039057913
Publisher:
Knopf Canada
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Copyrighted By:
Kaitlyn Regehr
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Self-Help, Parenting and Family, Psychology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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