The winter of our disconnect : how three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale
Title:
The winter of our disconnect : how three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale
Author:
Maushart, Susan, 1958-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2011.
©2010
Physical Description:
278 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
The author embarked with her three teenagers on a six-month screen blackout (no cellphones, iPods, PCs, laptops, game stations, or television) to discover if the technology intended to stimulate and keep us virtually more connected was, as she suspected, making us actually more disconnected and distracted.
General Note:
Originally published: Australia, Bantam Australia, 2010.
Language:
English
Contents:
Who we are, and why we pressed "pause" -- Power trip : the darkness descends -- Boredom for beginners -- My iPhone/myself : notes from a digital fugitive -- The sound of one hand doing homework -- Loss of Facebook : friending the old-fashioned way -- Eat, play, sleep -- The return of the digital native.
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9781585428557
Format :
Book
