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Living Online: Introduction to Healthy Screen Time

By: Aleks Krotoski
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What is social media doing to our brains? How can we make sure smartphones don't affect our health? How do we overcome jealousy, cyberbullying and the ever present FOMO? These are some of the questions that social psychologist Aleks Krotoski addresses in this series aimed at teenagers and their parents. She delivers the latest science about screentime to help you make the right decisions about how much, or how little, to use technology in your life.

Update 2 September, 2019: In association with the Royal Society for Public Health, and in support for the Scroll Free September campaign, Audible has released a bonus episode focused on screen/life balance. If you have already purchased this series, the extra episode will appear in your library.

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  • Ep. 1: Lost in Time

    Ep. 1: Lost in Time
    Jan 25 2019

    What is a healthy amount of time to spend online? Aleks meets 16 year old Anya. She spends hours watching soap-cutting videos online and Ramnik her dad is trying to control her time. Professor Sonia Livingtonstone argues that Screen Time has become a panic word and offers a different approach.
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    24 mins
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  • Ep. 2: FOMO

    Ep. 2: FOMO
    Jan 25 2019

    How to control your use of Social Media without the ever present FOMO? Anya has removed herself from social media for an entire month as part of a digital detox. She’s experiencing FOMO - the Fear of Missing Out - and is feeling cut off from her friends at school.

    While FOMO feels like a modern problem, it’s existed for centuries. Neuroscientist Ash Ranpura tells us how the teenage brain is particularly sensitive to the risk of social exclusion. So how can you maintain the balance between solitude and keep up with your friends online? Behaviour change expert Nir Eyal shares his tips.
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    19 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Your Best Life

    Ep. 3: Your Best Life
    Jan 25 2019

    How to avoid feelings of jealousy when using social media. It’s easy to compare yourself with what you see online. Social media invites us to swim in the lives of other people and drown in too much information about their best selves. But Professor Ethan Kross, a psychologist who specialises in how social media has changed human interaction has a solution.
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Nice book. Many of the ideas are not new but they're told in a new, useful and practical context that improves the understanding of the social media phenomenon and helps one to reconcile their role in it. An intriguing point is how Socrates thought that the technology of writing would reduce human information retention ability and it did. Only we found that not only is it unnecessary to memorize a whole encyclopedia, the benefits of writing (which include an exponential increase in our ability to transmit information over time without the need for a human brain as a vessel) have enabled us to focus on processing information for actionable insights rather than just memorizing it. Recommended read if you have 2 hours to spare....

A few useful nuggets

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I liked how it wasn't demonizing screen time but rather pointed out how it can affect us both in a bad as well as in a good way. It was refreshing. I really liked the part about fake news.

Refreshing

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enjoyable and informative, definitely inspired me to try altering my social media usage. I think some of the episodes weren't particularly useful to me as I'm not a teen or a parent. I also found it ironic that, in the episode where they were talking about not blindly trusting online sources, they presented a view of PewDiePie which seemed to not have taken into account any of his videos before or after, nor the YouTube community's perspective, only print media.

informative

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really enjoyed this. lots of information in a well rounded way based on studies etc. too. I liked how it discussed the positives and negatives. highly recommend it

brilliant really informative

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Loved this book. So much respect and admiration for Anya. Every parent and youngster should listen to it.

What an interesting book

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Useful hints and tips if you have children who spend a lot of time online.

Good general introduction

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Very informative articles which make you think a bit more about what you are doing .

Good listenering.

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Interesting. It makes you think more what you read and do online. Great work.

Great

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Only aimed at teenagers and children. I was hoping for a more balanced insight covering all age ranges. While useful for me as a father, not much scope was covered for adults caught up in the digital world and online presence. Items like identity theft, online scams and other online issues that the adult world has to contend with were not covered at all. Perhaps the title should have been - "the online world with your teenager or child", or similar

Useful for parents and teenagers

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As a mature woman struggling with screen time, I was extremely disappointed by this content which we've heard in the medias time and time again. Nothing new here. The focus is mainly on teenagers which is another cliché. It would have been such a better idea to look at those of us who didn't grow up with the internet and who are struggling. My 18-year-old is able to master his screen time, he's not the one who needs help. Thankfully, Cal Newport's new book, Digital Minimalism, has just come out. He tackles the real issues with his usual rigorous approach. Please Audible, don't waste our time with superficial work that looks like an in-depth study!

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