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Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children

Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children

Desmurget, Michel
Brown, Andrew
Brown, Andrew

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General SociologyWomen's Studies

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ISBN13: 9798212967983
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Aug 29 2023
Language: English
All forms of recreational digital consumption--whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles, or TVs--have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of two, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach thirteen, it's more than seven hours a day. Added up over the first eighteen years of life, this is the equivalent of almost thirty school years, or fifteen years of full-time employment.

Most media experts do not seem overly concerned about this situation: children are adaptable, they say, they are digital natives, their brains have changed and screens make them smarter. But other specialists--including some pediatricians, psychiatrists, teachers, and speech therapists--dispute these claims, and many parents worry about the long-term consequences of their children's intensive exposure to screens.

Michel Desmurget, a leading neuroscientist, has carefully weighed up the scientific evidence concerning the impact of the digital activities of our children and adolescents, and his assessment does not make for happy listening: he shows that these activities have significant detrimental consequences in terms of the health, behavior, and intellectual abilities of young people, and strongly affect their academic outcomes.

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