The winter of our disconnect
Subtitle: 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
By: Susan Maushart
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781585428557
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Who we are, and why we pressed "pause"; title: Power trip: the darkness descends; title: Boredom for beginners; title: My iPhone/myself: notes from a digital fugitive; title: The sound of one hand doing homework; title: Loss of Facebook: friending the old-fashioned way; title: Eat, play, sleep; title: The return of the digital native.