An edition of The winter of our disconnect (2011)

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

1st American ed.
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An edition of The winter of our disconnect (2011)

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

1st American ed.
  • 3 Want to read
  • 1 Have read

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.

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Language
English
Pages
278

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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.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/330994
Library of Congress
HM851 .M388 2011, HM851.M388 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
278

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24411980M
ISBN 13
9781585428557
LCCN
2010033133
OCLC/WorldCat
646111794

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15444428W

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