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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Would you ever consider putting your child on a plane and sending them to a foreign country alone? Of course, you wouldn't. And while that seems like an extreme example...guess what, mom and dad-that's exactly what you do when you hand your child a device without preparation. There are hundreds of millions of users on any given platform on any given day. Suffice it to say, when you give your child access to the online world, you give the world access...
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English
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"Resettling Your Brain in the Age of Cheap Pleasures"--
We are living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. Lembke explores new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain-- and what to do about it....
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Boys Town Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Day and night, zombie kids stare at their phones and me-pads until their eyes are a ghoulish shade of icy blue. They don't read books. They don't play outside. They don't talk to one another. They are captive to what they see and hear on the screens in front of them ... and that's just how the BIG IDEA Company wants it! BIG IDEA controls the digital world, telling kids what to like, what to buy, and even what to think. They've turned Ricky and an...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They can have fun with friends...
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Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Using the AASL Standards Framework for Learners, the Create and Share: Thinking Digitally series provides younger readers with the necessary tools to successfully and safely navigate the digital world. In Evaluating Online Sources, readers learn how to evaluate sources found online. Activities throughout the book prompt students to think more deeply, be creative, share information and resources, and grow their knowledge. Book includes a table of...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Today's teenagers spend an average of nine hours per day with their noses immersed in the glow of their screens. Tweens are not far behind, at six hours a day. Parents of this new, ultra-connected generation struggle with decisions completely new to parenting: Should they limit a child's screen time? Should an eight-year old be allowed to go on social media? What about playing video games with strangers? How can we keep them safe from harm when they...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In the long-awaited follow-up to his 2016 best-seller The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray interrogates the vicious new culture wars playing out in our media, universities, homes and perhaps the most violent place of all: online. The Madness of Crowds is a must-read polemic-a vociferous demand for a return to free speech in an age of mass hysteria and political correctness. The global conversations around sexuality, race, mental health and...
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Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Director Alex Winter explores the ascension and acceleration of YouTube; a video-sharing website that started with humble origins and has gone on to change how we experience the world. With exclusive access to some of YouTube's biggest stars; the film presents an eye-opening and troubling look at the platform now so powerfully embedded in our lives.
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Series
World around us volume 3
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This illustrated nonfiction picture book by child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts introduces children to the basics of online safety.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything. The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of...
15) Mainstream
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A young woman thinks she's found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
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Publisher
Entrepreneur Media, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Twitter is the fastest, simplest way for a business to stay close to its customers. Through a Tweet of merely 140 characters or less, a small business can engage and influence customers in new and unique ways all around the world. By creating and following Tweets, small businesses can tap into the needs, wants, habits, preferences, tastes, and opinions of their communities and then know what products and services to offer--as well as how to offer...
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Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Digital Detox: Why Taking a Break from Technology Can Improve Your Well-Being explores a range of topics associated with the countermovement to digital device over-usage and addiction that began to surface in Europe, and soon, thereafter, globally. In various forms, the countermovement became known as including individuals who vociferously advocated for a regular "digital detox" regimen in order to preserve one's mental and physical well-being. It...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Lanier offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave the dangers of online platforms behind. He has seen their tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people. And he asks: How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness,...
20) iSaved your life
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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Carly may be falling for Freddie, Sam apparently quits the show, Spencer has to wear a tuxedo and many more adventures.
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