Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist. This is different from a CyberPsychologist, in that social psychology takes a broader view of issues (including digital technology) that may or may not affect a collective group of similar people within an environment or context. A CyberPsychologist will focus more on the individual level of how a person…
The impact of childhood gadget use is a hot topic and often in the press. Anecdotally, I am hearing a lot of parents’ stories about the negative impact they feel digital technology is having on their children’s emotions, self-esteem and psychological well-being. Simultaneously, parents are aware that their children not having a smartphone can be…
Experts regularly debate, agree and disagree about how good or bad digital technology (DigiTech) is for us – whether we are young, old, working or playing. Until we are further down the line in this great social experiment called Digital Technology and Social Media, the expert opinion (including mine) comes down to the individual expert…
I seem to be having a number of discussions with parents (particularly mothers) about the quantity and type of technology that is being used within schools for the purposes of education. Screentime and homework The biggest concern, especially for parents of children in younger age groups, has been children only being able to access homework…
When I first tell people what I do, they seem to have an interesting need to launch into a series of guilt-like confessions about their technology use, probably because we all feel some level of guilt over the amount of time we spend in front of our screens – because, somehow, we know doing so…
Most people get a little frustrated when someone checks their phone in the middle of a conversation. But, most of us do it… on a regular basis. It never used to be socially acceptable to pick something up and start reading it while talking to another. Not many people would pick up a newspaper or…
A lot of us tend to purchase and use digital technology without thinking about the consequences. Once we engage with tech, we get to experience the benefits that technology provides and start engaging with it more. Until it becomes hard to distinguish between the time and attention digital tech consumes and the benefits that technology…
In this book, Johann Hari goes in search of the answers to help him understand more about the depression that surfaced in his teens and became a big part of his life. His passion for investigating and writing on various subjects seems to come from a deep desire to find specific answers to deeply personal…
Because Internet is an exploration of how the language used on the Internet, and in particular on social media and text messaging, has changed how we communicate with others. The book explores how language and communication have evolved, even exploring how it changed with the advent of the landline. It also analyses the differences in…
“There are two sides to every coin” I have many friends who use Instagram. I often hear different views, some love it for the content, some are annoyed to see people not presenting their real self. There are always two sides, being online can make you happy or unhappy; connected or isolated; confident or losing…
