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The winter of our disconnect, how three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale, Susan Maushart

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The winter of our disconnect, how three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale, Susan Maushart

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The winter of our disconnect

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

646111794

Responsibility statement

Susan Maushart

Review

The author embarked with her three teenagers on a six-month screen blackout (no cellphones, iPods, PCs, laptops, game stations, or television) to discover if the technology intended to stimulate and keep us virtually more connected was, as she suspected, making us actually more disconnected and distracted

Sub title

how three totally wired teenagers (and a mother who slept with her iPhone) pulled the plug on their technology and lived to tell the tale

Table Of Contents

Who we are, and why we pressed "pause" -- Power trip : the darkness descends -- Boredom for beginners -- My iPhone/myself : notes from a digital fugitive -- The sound of one hand doing homework -- Loss of Facebook : friending the old-fashioned way -- Eat, play, sleep -- The return of the digital native

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