iDisorder : understanding our obsession with technology and overcoming its hold on us /
IDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders, such as stress, sleeplessness and a compulsive need to check in with all of your te...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- iDisorder: why are we all acting crazy?
- Media starts with "me"
- Obsessively checking in with your technology...24/7
- Getting high on technology: hooked on smartphones, social networking, and texting
- The ups (and downs) of leading a cyberlife
- Sorry I missed the meeting...I went to check my e-mail and the next thing I knew it was two hours later
- Communication 101: safety (and training) behind the screen
- You only think you're dying: when pain is just pain
- Does my profile pic make me look fat? New media and our relationship with our appearance
- Delusions, hallucinations, and social avoidance: is technology making us appear "schizo"?
- We like to watch
- It's all in your mind.