Deviced!: Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World - Hardcover

Doreen Dodgen-Magee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538115840 ISBN 13: 9781538115848

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2018

Synopsis

With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly everyone. While the effects differ at each point of development, real changes to the brain, relationships, and personal lives are well documented. Deviced! explores these alterations and offers a realistic look at how we can better use technology and break away from the bad habits we’ve formed.

Using personal stories, cutting edge research, and anecdotes from youth, parents, and professionals, Dodgen-Magee highlights the brain changes that result from excessive technology use and offers an approach to the digital world that enables more informed and lasting change and a healthier long-term perspective. Given that the reader is living within a culture of ever-changing and advancing technologies, Deviced! is written in such a way that its contents can weather the constantly changing digital landscape by focusing on the concepts of honest assessment and healthy boundary setting rather than on specific technologies or platforms.

Deviced! offers a mindful approach to assessing current technology use, breaking bad habits, setting new norms, and re-engaging with life with renewed richness and awareness.

About this title

About the Author

Doreen Dodgen-Magee is an author, psychologist, and speaker. Her first book, Deviced! Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital Age (Rowman & Littlefield) was awarded the 2018 Gold Medal for Psychology by the Nautilus Book Awards. Doreen’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Utne Reader, and Psychology Today. She has been interviewed and quoted in articles for the New York Times, Time magazine, and The Guardian and is a popular podcast guest. Doreen is a Senior Survivor Fellow with Everytown for Gun Safety and a group facilitator with Covid Survivors for Change. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and near her grown children. She can be found at www.doreendm.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538115840
• ISBN 13: 9781538115848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268