The Winter of Our Disconnect (37 page)
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Authors: Susan Maushart
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Raija-Leena Punamäki, Marjut Wallenius, Clase-Håkan Nygård, Lea Saarni, and Arja Rimpelä, “Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Perceived Health in Adolescence: The Role of Sleeping Habits and Waking-Time Tiredness,”
Journal of Adolescence
, 30, no. 4 (August 2007).
Raija-Leena Punamäki, Marjut Wallenius, Clase-Håkan Nygård, Lea Saarni, and Arja Rimpelä, “Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Perceived Health in Adolescence: The Role of Sleeping Habits and Waking-Time Tiredness,”
Journal of Adolescence
, 30, no. 4 (August 2007).
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Robert E. Roberts, Catherine Ramsay Roberts, and Hao T. Duong, “Sleepless in Adolescence: Prospective Data on Sleep Deprivation, Health and Functioning,”
Journal of Adolescence
, 32, no. 5 (2009), 1045−1057.
Robert E. Roberts, Catherine Ramsay Roberts, and Hao T. Duong, “Sleepless in Adolescence: Prospective Data on Sleep Deprivation, Health and Functioning,”
Journal of Adolescence
, 32, no. 5 (2009), 1045−1057.
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Ibid.
Ibid.
16
Calamaro et al., “Adolescents Living the 24/7 Lifestyle.”
Calamaro et al., “Adolescents Living the 24/7 Lifestyle.”
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Ibid.
Ibid.
18
Ibid.
CHAPTER EIGHTIbid.
The Return of the Digital Native
» Recommended Reading
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Bauerlein, Mark.
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30).
New York: Tarcher, 2008.
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30).
New York: Tarcher, 2008.
Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.”
The Atlantic
, July/August 2008.
The Atlantic
, July/August 2008.
———.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Conley, Dalton.
Elsewhere, USA.
New York: Pantheon, 2009.
Elsewhere, USA.
New York: Pantheon, 2009.
Gordhamer, Soren.
Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected.
New York: HarperOne, 2009.
Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected.
New York: HarperOne, 2009.
Harkin, James.
Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and Who We Are.
London: Little, Brown, 2009.
Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and Who We Are.
London: Little, Brown, 2009.
Jackson, Maggie.
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2009.
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2009.
Johnson, Steven.
Everything Bad Is Good for You
. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
Everything Bad Is Good for You
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Jones, Sydney, and Susannah Fox. “Generations Online in 2009.” Pew Internet & American Life Project. January 28, 2009.
Lenhart, Amanda. “Teens and Mobile Phones over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back.” Pew Internet & American Life Project. August 19, 2009.
Macgill, Alexandra Rankin. “Parents, Teens and Technology.” Pew Internet & American Life Project. October 24, 2008.
Mazo, Gary, Martin Trautschold, and Kevin Michaluk.
CrackBerry: True Tales of BlackBerry Use and Abuse.
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CrackBerry: True Tales of BlackBerry Use and Abuse.
Charleston, SC: BookSurge, 2008.
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.
Enough: Breaking Free from the World of Excess.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
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New York: AMACOM, 2008.
Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything.
New York: AMACOM, 2008.
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New York: Basic Books, 2008.
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.
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New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking, 1985.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking, 1985.
———.
The Disappearance of Childhood.
New York: Vintage/Random House, 1994.
The Disappearance of Childhood.
New York: Vintage/Random House, 1994.
Roberts, Donald F., Ulla G. Foehr, and Victoria Rideout. “Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds.” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. March 2005.
Small, Gary, and Gigi Vorgan.
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New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
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Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.
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Tapscott, Don.
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Thoreau, Henry David.
Walden.
Edited by Sherman Paul. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1957. (First published in 1854.)
Walden.
Edited by Sherman Paul. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1957. (First published in 1854.)
» About the Author
Author and social commentator Dr. Susan Maushart is a columnist for
The Weekend Australian Magazine
and an independent producer for ABC Radio Australia. Her previous four books have been published in eight languages. She holds a Ph.D. in media ecology from New York University.
The Weekend Australian Magazine
and an independent producer for ABC Radio Australia. Her previous four books have been published in eight languages. She holds a Ph.D. in media ecology from New York University.
a
A family uniform involving brown felt and Velcro; eating breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast; etc.
b
And, in answer to your question, yes, I’ve tried resetting my alerts. It doesn’t help. In fact,
not
knowing when messages arrive is even more distracting somehow.
not
knowing when messages arrive is even more distracting somehow.
c
The Republican Digital Immigrant.
d
Deep and meaningful.
e
I also intended to visit Walden Pond to pay my respects, but, alas, I never got there. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in,” Thoreau had written. In the end, I just ran out of stream.
f
Real Life.
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