Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book combines an account of the emergence and growth of new digital social networks with the results of large-scale online research exploring the 'Screen Society'. It provides a critical examination of the ways an entire generation of people who habitually engage with screens are reshaping the nature of social interaction and are doing so by adjusting technology to accommodate their own needs. These users are creating and sustaining new kinds of social relationships that have rarely, if ever, been considered by theorists of communication and which bear a resemblance to pre-industrial forms.
Marshall McLuhan postulated the creation of a single global consciousness facilitated by technology. This book will determine empirically whether this has transpired, or whether there has in fact, been a proliferation of fragmented consciousness.
Synopsis
1. Introduction.- 2. History.- 3. Screenagers.- 4. Addiction.- 5. Politics.- 6. Children.- 7. Trolling.- 8. Gender.- 9. Gaming and Gambling.- 10. Health.- 11. Dating.- 12. Consumption.- 13. Privacy.
Synopsis
Examines the emergence of screens in society and their impact on every aspect of everyday life
Based on the most ambitious online qualitative research project to date
Challenges prevailing thinking on internet addiction, trolling, dating, gambling and offers surprising insights into how 'Screenagers' think about the scares surrounding these