Title:
Social media and your brain : web-based communication is changing how we think and express ourselves / C.G. Prado, PhD, FRSC, editor.
Author:
Prado, C. G., editor.
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
Call Number:
HM851 .S644 2017
Abstract:
While society has widely condemned the effects on preteens and teens' natural social maturation of digitally enabled communication, such as texting and messaging, and of social media apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, these forms of communication are adversely affecting everyone, including adults. This book examines how social media and modern communication methods are isolating users socially, jeopardizing their intellectual habits, and, as a result, decreasing their chances of achieving social and professional success.--AMAZON.
ISBN:
9781440854538
Physical Description:
xv, 154 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction / C.G. Prado -- The role of habit / C.G. Prado -- Bored, addicted, or both : how we use social media now / Mark Kingwell -- Attention, emotion, and desire in the age of social media / Khadija Coxon -- Social media and self-control : the vices and virtues of attention / Juan Pablo Bermúdez -- Does social media interfere with the capacity to make reasoned arguments? / Chris Beeman -- Exclusive spaces / Alex Leitch -- Social media and communicative unlearning : learning to forget in communicating / Paul Fairfield -- Prices paid for social media use / Lawrie McFarlane -- Afterword : realizing the consequences of Internet and social media usage / Bruce MacNaughton.
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