The Smartphone Paradox: Our Ruinous Dependency in the Device Age

By Alan J. Reid

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030068323
• ISBN13: 9783030068325
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"