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, th...

Table of Contents:

• 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.