The smartphone paradox: Our ruinous dependency in the device age

Authors

Alan J. Reid, Coastal Carolina University

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Description

The Smartphone Paradox is a critical examination of our everyday mobile technologies and the effects that they have on our thoughts and behaviors. Alan J. Reid presents a comprehensive view of smartphones: the research behind the uses and gratifications of smartphones, the obstacles they present, the opportunities they afford, and how everyone can achieve a healthy, technological balance. It includes interviews with smartphone users from a variety of backgrounds, and translates scholarly research into a conversational tone, making it easy to understand a synthesis of key findings and conclusions from a heavily-researched domain. All in all, through the lens of smartphone dependency, the book makes the argument for digital mindfulness in a device age that threatens our privacy, sociability, attention, and cognitive abilities.

Publication Date

2018

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-94319-0

Disciplines

Communication Technology and New Media | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Recommended Citation

Reid, Alan J. (2018). The Smartphone Paradox: Our Ruinous Dependency in the Device Age. Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94319-0. Available at: https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/faculty-books/2/

ISBN

978-331994319-0, 978-331994318-3