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Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children

Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michel Desmurget, Andrew Brown (Translator)Publish date:2022-12-28Pages:350
Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509546404ISBN-10:1509546405UPC:9781509546404Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media StudiesSize:8.60 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCK79YSQFC

All forms of recreational digital consumption - whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs - have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13, it's more than 7 hours a day. Added up over the first 18 years of life, this is the equivalent of almost 30 school years, or 15 years of full-time employment.

Most media experts do not seem overly concerned about this situation: children are adaptable, they say, they are 'digital natives', their brains have changed and screens make them smarter. But other specialists - including some paediatricians, psychiatrists, teachers and speech therapists - dispute these claims, and many parents worry about the long-term consequences of their children's intensive exposure to screens.

Michel Desmurget, a leading neuroscientist, has carefully weighed up the scientific evidence concerning the impact of the digital activities of our children and adolescents, and his assessment does not make for happy reading: he shows that these activities have significant detrimental consequences in terms of the health, behaviour and intellectual abilities of young people, and strongly affect their academic outcomes.

A wake-up call for anyone concerned about the long-term impacts of our children's over-exposure to screens.


Also available as an audiobook.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509546404ISBN-10:1509546405UPC:9781509546404Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Media StudiesSize:8.60 x 6.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCK79YSQFC
Michel Desmurget is a neuroscientist and Director of Research at INSERM, Paris.
Publisher: Polity Press

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