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The Smartphone Paradox: Our Ruinous Dependency in the Device Age

The Smartphone Paradox: Our Ruinous Dependency in the Device Age

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Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030068323
ISBN13: 9783030068325
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Dec 21 2018
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

The Smartphone Paradox is a critical examination of our everyday mobile technologies and the effects that they have on our thoughts and behaviors. Alan J. Reid presents a comprehensive view of smartphones: the research behind the uses and gratifications of smartphones, the obstacles they present, the opportunities they afford, and how everyone can achieve a healthy, technological balance. It includes interviews with smartphone users from a variety of backgrounds, and translates scholarly research into a conversational tone, making it easy to understand a synthesis of key findings and conclusions from a heavily-researched domain. All in all, through the lens of smartphone dependency, the book makes the argument for digital mindfulness in a device age that threatens our privacy, sociability, attention, and cognitive abilities.

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