The Smartphone Paradox Our Ruinous Dependency in the Device Age /

• Main Author: Reid, Alan J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Communication.; Digital media.; Culture.; Technology.; Social media.; Technology in literature.; Media and Communication.; Digital/New Media.; Culture and Technology.; Social Media.; Literature and Technology/Media.

 The Smartphone Paradox is a critical examination of our everyday mobile technologies and the effects that they have on our thoughts and behaviors. Alan J. Reid presents a comprehensive view of smartphones: the research behind the uses and gratifications of smartphones, the obstacles they present, the opportunities they afford, and how everyone can achieve a healthy, technological balance. It includes interviews with smartphone users from a variety of backgrounds, and translates scholarly research into a conversational tone, making it easy to understand a synthesis of key findings and conclusions from a heavily-researched domain. All in all, through the lens of smartphone dependency, the book makes the argument for digital mindfulness in a device age that threatens our privacy, sociability, attention, and cognitive abilities. 

 1. Introduction -- 2. A Brief History of the Smartphone -- 3. Habit-Making Devices -- 4. Use. Gratify. Repeat -- 5. Outsourcing Memory -- 6. Digital Socialites -- 7. Going Dark -- 8. Conclusion.