Harris, Duchess
Summary: These days it's become easier than ever to customize social media feeds to include only information you think is relevant to your interests. But is that necessarily a positive development? Your Personalized Internet uncovers the problematic aspects of online customization, including the dangers of echo chambers and filter bubbles and the loss of privacy that can result from companies sharing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J302.231 HARStoffel, Judy
Summary: "In the decade since the smartphone was released, we have been absorbing new technology like sponges, fervently downloading new apps and dedicating massive amounts of time to gaming, streaming video, and surfing social media.... In this enlightening book, Judy Stoffel, a visionary thinker who foresaw the impact screens could have on children, provides a plausible road map to change the course...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents StoffelAlaimo, Kara
Summary: "In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 ALARiley, Naomi Schaefer
Summary: "Screens are seductive. We see it in our toddlers, begging for tablets. We see it in our pre-teens, leading double lives on Tumblr. We see it in ourselves, too, as much of our time gets sucked into news feeds and emails. From a parenting vantage, technology has been the holy grail, allowing us to outsource the unpleasant tasks and give ourselves a break. No clean-up after painting when it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templeton Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 RILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 RILCasciotta, CJ
Summary: "Casciotta outlines nine beatitudes for living in this unrivaled age, charting a new path forward for those tired of feeling like their devices own them and their loved ones, and helps rewrite the narrative for anyone concerned about where this is all heading"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BenBella Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 CASAlter, Adam L.
Summary: "An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control. Behavioral addiction may prove to be one of the most important fields of social,medical, and psychological research in our lifetime. The idea that behaviors can be being addictive is new, but the threat is near universal....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 ALTDurlofsky, Paula
Summary: "Studies show that the average American is spending more than 10 hours a day in front of their screens... Too often, bad feelings from social media interactions linger, negatively affecting our off-line lives and worsening already present mental health issues. Instead of demonizing social media by taking a one-note, "digital detox" approach, Logged In and Stressed Out recognizes social media is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.231 DURSteiner-Adair, Catherine
Summary: Offers insight and advice to help parents successfully navigate today's technologically advanced world and turn the focus back to family and meaningful relationships with their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 STESteinhauer, Jason
Summary: The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History as a discipline. This is the first book to chronicle how and why it matters. Why does History matter at all? What role do history and the past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 901 STEWoolley, Samuel
Summary: "Despite all the attention paid to it, the problem of online disinformation is only getting worse. Social media may well play a role in the 2020 presidential election and other major political events. But that doesn't begin to describe what future propaganda will look like. As Samuel Woolley shows, we will soon be navigating new technologies such as human-like automated voice systems, machine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 WOOReeve, Elle
Summary: "This tour de force of investigative journalism--in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized--depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right and left spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences. Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024