Mindful Tech : How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives / David M. Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, David M., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Mindfulness (Psychology).

Internet users--Conduct of life.

Internet users.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. In recent years many of us have begun to look at the pluses and minuses of our online lives and to ask how we might more skillfully use the tools we've developed. David M. Levy, who has lived his life between the "fast world" of high tech and the "slow world" of contemplation, offers a welcome guide to being more relaxed, attentive, and emotionally balanced, and more effective, while online. In a series of exercises carefully designed to help readers observe and reflect on their own use, Levy has readers watch themselves closely while emailing and while multitasking, and also to experiment with unplugging for a specified period. Never prescriptive, the book opens up new avenues for self-inquiry and will allow readers-in the workplace, in the classroom, and in the privacy of their homes-to make meaningful and powerful changes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface Living Fast and Slow

Acknowledgments

1. Falling in the Fountain

2. Observing Our Online Lives

3. Attention, Emotions, and the Body

4. Exercise 1 Observing Email (or Facebook or Texting . . . )

5. Exercise 2 Focused Email (or Facebook or Texting . . . )

6. Exercise 3 Observing Multitasking

7. Exercise 4 Focused Multitasking

8. Exercise 5 Mindful Unplugging

9. Honing Our Digital Craft

10. Broadening and Deepening the Conversation

Appendix A. Two Attention-Training Practices

Appendix B. A Template for Logging Your Observations

Appendix C. Contemplative Pedagogy

Appendix D. The Mindful Use of Technology

Appendix E. Digital Dependency and Addiction

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-21667-X

OCLC:

936378401