Social media and your brain : web-based communication is changing how we think and express ourselves / C. G. Prado, PhD, FRSC, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prado, C. G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Social media.

Interpersonal communication.

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado : Praeger, 2017.

Summary:

While society has widely condemned the effects on preteens and teens' natural social maturation of digitally enabled communication, such as texting and messaging, and of social media apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, these forms of communication are adversely affecting everyone, including adults.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Chapter Synopses

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Role of Habit

Chapter 2 Bored, Addicted, or Both: How We Use Social Media Now

Chapter 3 Attention, Emotion, and Desire in the Age of Social Media

Chapter 4 Social Media and Self-Control: The Vices and Virtues of Attention

Chapter 5 Does Social Media Interfere with the Capacity to Make Reasoned Arguments?

Chapter 6 Exclusive Spaces

Chapter 7 Social Media and Communicative Unlearning: Learning to Forget in Communicating

Chapter 8 Prices Paid for Social Media Use

Afterword: Realizing the Consequences of Internet and Social Media Usage

Bibliography

About the Editor and Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-82-16-14625-4

OCLC:

962154029