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Smartphone Nation

Why We're All Addicted to Screens and What You Can Do About It

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Smartphone Nation

By: Kaitlyn Regehr
Narrated by: Kaitlyn Regehr
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About this listen

Read by the author, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr.

The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family.

Smartphone Nation will transform the way you – and your children – understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr – one of the UK's leading experts on digital literacy – sets out how you can keep the advantages of the internet whilst identifying often hidden dangers and stepping away when you’re over-reliant.

This life-changing guide provides practical tips, clear takeaways and tested strategies to empower you to take back control of your digital life. Covering misogyny, pornography, body image, advertising, violence and more, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr explains echo chambers, the attention economy, and why we are still so unprotected when it comes to digital media.

You’ll learn how to game your algorithm, how to limit targeted advertising, how to catch misinformation and how to improve your digital nutrition.

Essential reading for parents and anyone who has ever worried about how compulsively they check their phone, Smartphone Nation will equip you not only to survive in the digital space, but to thrive.

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Critic reviews

Smartphone Nation demystifies the algorithms driving our digital world and equips us with the practical tools needed to build a healthier, happier future for ourselves and our kids (Daisy Greenwell, co-founder Smartphone-Free Childhood)
A candid, rigorous, and witty read on how to stop digital devices from wreaking havoc on our lives. As a leading expert on social media and internet policy, Kaitlyn Regehr illuminates what we can do – individually and collectively – to put our smartphones in their place (Adam Grant, author of Think Again)
Packed full of practical advice which parents, carers and teachers will find immensely helpful (Natasha Devon, MBE)
A smart first step into completely resetting your daily life
Smart and accessible . . . successfully equips families to upend unhealthy digital practices
All stars
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This book provides a cogent analysis of screen addiction among children and adults and plants the blame fairly and squarely with Big Tech and with policymakers who either don't understand what they're dealing with, do understand it but choose to look the other way or are in someway profiting themselves and therefore don't want to upset the apple cart.

It would have benefited from a professional narrator and the frequent pauses should be tightened up so that the narrative rolls in a much more fluid way.

It's essential reading for any parent who is beginning to contemplate or is in the middle of navigating the treacherous seas of social media, algorithms and Big Tech manipulation.

Disturbing yet essential

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