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Baby, unplugged : one mother's search for balance, reason, and sanity in the digital age / Sophie Brickman.
Van Pelt Library HQ755.8 .B7346 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brickman, Sophie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brickman, Sophie.
- Parenthood.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Internet and children.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Combining a journalist's investigative eye with her unborn second child as an experimental guinea pig, Baby, Unplugged draws on Sophie Brickman's own experiences as a journalist and parent to try to discover what aspects of technology are actually helpful, which are making us crazy, and most importantly, how we might learn to trust ourselves and our instincts again when it comes to raising children"-- Provided by publisher.
- There's an app or device for nearly every aspect of parenting. But what is living in a tech-saturated world doing to you and your children? Brickman draws on her own experiences as a journalist and parent to try to discover what aspects of technology are actually helpful, which are making us crazy, and most importantly, how we might learn to trust ourselves and our instincts again when it comes to raising children. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Parentech
- 1. The Quantified Child Do We Really Need This Much Baby Data?
- 2. It Takes a Virtual Village Can Online Parenting Groups Replace IRL?
- 3. Baby Paparazzi If You're Capturing the Moment, Are You Ever in It?
- 4. Buy, Buy, Baby Are We Strong Enough to Escape E-commerce?
- pt. Two Babytech
- 5. Plug and Play Are Smart Toys Better than Analog Blocks?
- 6. Couch Fingerlings Is Preschool Programming Worse than Ever?
- 7. Swiped Out Will Interactive Apps Change the Game?
- 8. See Spot Sprint Can E-boohs Improve Upon Print Ones?.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brickman, Sophie. Plug and play
- ISBN:
- 9780062966483
- 0062966480
- 9780062966476
- 0062966472
- OCLC:
- 1226073390
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