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Author:

Kardaras, Nicholas, 1964- author.

Title:

Digital madness : how social media is driving our mental health crisis-and how to restore our sanity / Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

272 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Social media--Psychological aspects.
Information technology--Psychological aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Well-being.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272).

Contents:

A world gone mad -- Addicted to the Matrix -- A world gone mad -- The social contagion effect -- Viral violence -- Social media and the binary trap -- Digital systopia -- The new technocracy -- Maintaining the dystopia -- God complexes and immorality -- The ancient cure -- My personal odyssey -- Beyond therapy -- the philosopher-warrior.

Summary:

"From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids: Revolutionary research that reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates--and offers a way out. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of researchers sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it "digital heroin". Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras turns his attention to our teens and young adults. For them, the digital world is a bubble of content you're meant to "like" or "dislike." Two choices might be considered easy, but just how detrimental is this binary thinking to mental health? From body image to politics to personal relationships to decisions, the world doesn't exist in an "up or down," "black or white," "good or bad" dynamic, and social media shouldn't either. Digital Madness explores how technology promotes sedentary isolation, polarization, rewards extremes on both sides, and has spawned a mental health and suicide pandemic from which enormous corporations profit. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking, concentration, and other beneficial habits of mind. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers who are searching for ways to restore our young people's mental and physical health"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

125027849X
9781250278494

LCCN:

2022016371

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UKPD911 -- Carlisle Public Library (Carlisle)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

FPPC224 -- Murphy Helwig Library (Monona)

JKPC771 -- Polk City Community Library (Polk City)

PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)