TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desmurget,Michel
TI  - Screen damage: the dangers of digital media for children 
SN  - 9781509546404
AV  - HQ784.M3 D4713 2023
U1  - DC 302.231083 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - UK
PB  - Polity
KW  - Mass media and children
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Computers and children
KW  - Television and children
KW  - Digital media
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: who should we believe? -- Digital natives: muilding a myth -- Uses: an incredible frenzy of screens for recreation -- Impacts: chronicles of a disaster foretold -- Preamble: multiple and intricate impacts -- Academic success: a powerful prejudice -- Development: a damaging environment -- Health: a silent aggression -- Epilogue: a very old brain for a brave new world
N2  - "All forms of recreational digital consumption - whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs - have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13, it's more than 7 hours a day. Added up over the first 18 years of life, this is the equivalent of almost 30 school years, or 15 years of full-time employment. Most media experts do not seem overly concerned about this situation: children are adaptable, they say, they are 'digital natives', their brains have changed and screens make them smarter. But other specialists - including some paediatricians, psychiatrists, teachers and speech therapists - dispute these claims, and many parents worry about the long-term consequences of their children's intensive exposure to screens. Michel Desmurget, a leading neuroscientist, has carefully weighed up the scientific evidence concerning the impact of the digital activities of our children and adolescents, and his assessment does not make for happy reading: he shows that these activities have significant detrimental consequences in terms of the health, behaviour and intellectual abilities of young people, and strongly affect their academic outcomes. A wake-up call for anyone concerned about the long-term impacts of our children's over-exposure to screens"--Amazon.com
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